Historic New England

Miniature Basket with Lid

Oval splint top with raised center on conforming base with two wrapped handles and rectangular open-work bottom, all in warm natural brown color.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: ash (wood), weaving

GUSN: 3070

Accession Number: 1991.1562AB

Doll

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 3071

Accession Number: 1991.1563

Sachet

Densely padded white silk square is embroidered with polychrome floral spray and edged with wide, double flounce of ecru lace with blue silk satin insertion ribbon and bow.

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, lace (needlework), silk (textile)

GUSN: 3072

Accession Number: 1991.1564

Plate

Molded redware plate; unglazed.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: Millville Pottery (Maker) Clark, Daniel, d. 1828 (Maker) Clark, John (Maker)

Material: molding (forming), redware

GUSN: 3073

Accession Number: 1991.1568

Plate

Redware plate 1/4 inch thick, molded into English salt-glaze Rococo-style shape; its face is covered with a reddish-orange lead glaze.

Date: 1843

Maker: Clark, Daniel, d. 1828 (Maker) Flanders, Paul (Maker)

Material: glazing (coating), lead (metal), molding (forming), redware, lead glaze, salt glaze

GUSN: 3074

Accession Number: 1991.1569

Bonnet

Black and natural colored straw woven into wide, projecting brim on shallow crown with straw binding at edges and seams; tan canvas binding at nape of neck and at inner seam.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: Bridge, Amos D., Mr. (Maker)

Material: canvas, straw (plant material)

GUSN: 3075

Accession Number: 1991.1570

Bonnet

Black and natural colored straw woven into wide, projecting brim on shallow, pleated crown with straw binding at edges and seams; tan canvas binding at nape of neck and at inner seam.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: Bridge, Amos D., Mr. (Maker)

Material: straw (plant material), canvas

GUSN: 3076

Accession Number: 1991.1571

Catalogue of books in the Massachusetts historical library :an annotated edition of the 1796 library catalogue of the Massachusetts Historical Society /compiled by John D. Cushing ... [et al.].

xvi, 598 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Cushing, John D., 1922- Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 259744

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z1295.M39 1996

America's jubilee /Andrew Burstein.

xiv, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "On July 4, 1826, the United States celebrated its fiftieth birthday with parades and speeches across the country. But what ultimately sanctified the national jubilee in the minds of the celebrants was an extraordinary coincidence: the nearly simultaneous deaths of...

Date: 2001

Creators: Burstein, Andrew.

GUSN: 259745

Call Number: Stacks E285.B88 2001

Bodies of belief :Baptist community in early America /Janet Moore Lindman.

270 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lindman, Janet Moore.

GUSN: 259746

Call Number: Stacks BX6233.L56 2008

The scrapbook in American life /edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler.

x, 332 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Tucker, Susan, 1950- Ott, Katherine. Buckler, Patricia.

GUSN: 259747

Call Number: Stacks TR465.S393453 2005

The slate roof bible /Joseph C. Jenkins.

316 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Jenkins, Joseph C.

GUSN: 259748

Call Number: Stacks TH2445.J45 2003

Manufacturing the muse :Estey organs & consumer culture in Victorian America /Dennis G. Waring.

xix, 356 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2002.

Creators: Waring, Dennis, 1944- Estey Organ Company.

GUSN: 259749

Call Number: Stacks ML597.W37 2002

Plastering skills /F. Van Den Branden, Thomas L. Hartsell ; With the collaboration of Old House Journal.

543 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., Intended as a guide for apprentice and journeyman professionals covering plastering and closely related building trades.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Van Den Branden, Felicien, 1907- Hartsell, Thomas L. Van Den Branden, Felicien, 1907- Plastering skill and practice.

GUSN: 259750

Call Number: Stacks TH8131.V25 1971

Out of tin boxes /by Carlton Bradford.

viii, 338 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001?]

Creators: Bradford, Carlton, 1926-

GUSN: 259751

Call Number: Stacks CT274.H378 B73 2001

The times of their lives :life, love, and death in Plymouth Colony /James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz.

xvi, 366 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "The Times of Their Lives presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts, wills, and probate records, as well as physica...

Date: c2000.

Creators: Deetz, James. Deetz, Patricia E. Scott

GUSN: 259752

Call Number: Stacks F68.D4 2000

Whose muse? :art museums and the public trust /James Cuno, editor ; with essays by Neil MacGregor ... [et al.].

208 p. : ill., port., plan.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Cuno, James B. MacGregor, Neil, 1946-

GUSN: 259753

Call Number: Stacks N430.W48 2003

A passion to preserve :gay men as keepers of culture /Will Fellows.

x, 288 p. ; 23 cm., From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. This penchant to preserve, though ...

Date: c2004.

Creators: Fellows, Will.

GUSN: 259754

Call Number: Stacks HQ75.7.F45 2004

The paradise of all these parts :a natural history of Boston /John Hanson Mitchell.

xiii, 254 p. ; 23 cm., In 1614, explorer John Smith sailed into what was to become Boston Harbor and referred to the wild lands and waters around him as "the Paradise of all these parts". Within fifteen years, the Puritans were developing the tadpole shaped Shawmut Peninsula, as members of the Mass...

Date: c2008.

Creators: Mitchell, John Hanson.

GUSN: 259755

Call Number: Stacks QH105.M4 M58 2008

Beyond the architect's eye :photographs and the American built environment /Mary N. Woods.

xxxiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Woods, Mary N., 1950-

GUSN: 259756

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR659.W66 2009

A guide to historic Plymouth /James Baker.

142 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Baker, James W.

GUSN: 259757

Call Number: Stacks F74.P8 B35 2008

Maple sugarin' in Vermont :a sweet history /Betty Ann Lockhart.

192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lockhart, Betty Ann. Lockhart, Don.

GUSN: 259758

Call Number: Stacks TP395.L63 2008

Piety and dissent :race, gender, and biblical rhetoric in early American autobiography /Eileen Razzari Elrod.

xii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Elrod, Eileen Razzari.

GUSN: 259759

Call Number: Stacks BR515.E47 2008

Welfare politics in Boston, 1910-1940 /Susan Traverso.

xiii, 164 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Traverso, Susan, 1959-

GUSN: 259760

Call Number: Stacks HV99.B6 T738 2003

The colonial church records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere) /editors, James F. Cooper, Jr., Kenneth P. Minkema.

371 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Cooper, James F. (James Fenimore), 1955- Minkema, Kenneth P. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 259761

Call Number: Stacks F74.W1 C65 2006

The warmest room in the house :how the kitchen became the heart of the twentieth-century American home /Steven Gdula.

xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., Examines the relationship between trends and innovations in the kitchen and American cultural attitudes., Examining the relationship between trends and innovations in the kitchen and the cultural attitudes beyond its four walls, writer Gdula creates a lively portrait of o...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Gdula, Steven.

GUSN: 259762

Call Number: Stacks TX653.G38 2008

The life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. :with personal recollections of incidents in Rhode Island /foreword by Rosalind C. Wiggins ; introduction by Joanne Pope Melish.

xliii, 136 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Brown, William J., 1814-1885. Wiggins, Rosalind Cobb, 1917- Melish, Joanne Pope.

GUSN: 259763

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.B88 2006

The Olmsted National Historic Site and the growth of historic landscape preservation /David Grayson Allen.

x, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Allen, David Grayson, 1943-

GUSN: 259764

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.B9 A45 2007

Lions & eagles & bulls :early American tavern & inn signs from the Connecticut Historical Society /edited by Susan P. Schoelwer ; essays by Philip D. Zimmerman ... [et al.].

279 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Connecticut Historical Society.

GUSN: 259765

Call Number: Coll. NK8643.45.C66 2000

Candace Wheeler :the art and enterprise of American design, 1875-1900 /Amelia Peck and Carol Irish.

xii, 276 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Peck, Amelia. Irish, Carol. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 259766

Call Number: Coll. NK8898.W48 A4 2001

Charles Eliot Norton :the art of reform in nineteenth-century America /Linda Dowling.

xxi, 221 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Dowling, Linda C., 1944-

GUSN: 259767

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS2478.D69 2007

Salisbury historic impressions :in celebration of the Salisbury Association Centennial /[project editor, Elaine Hecht ; production and photo research, Louis Hecht ; contributing writers, Tom Schachtman, Elaine Hecht].

96 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Date: c2002

Creators: Hecht, Elaine. Schachtman, Tom. Rudd, Malcolm Day, b. 1877. Historical sketch of Salisbury. Sills, Norman. Salisbury in the 20th century.

GUSN: 259768

Call Number: Stacks F104.S2 S22 2002

Men of worth of Salisbury birth /Malcolm Day Rudd.

[7], 373, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1991.

Creators: Rudd, Malcolm Day, 1877-1942.

GUSN: 259769

Call Number: Stacks F104.S2 R83 1991

A short history of Salisbury, Connecticut /Arnold Whitridge ; with an afterword on Salisbury's role in the American Revolution by Kathryn Boughton.

vii, 53 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1998, c1995.

Creators: Whitridge, Arnold, 1891- Boughton, Kathryn.

GUSN: 259770

Call Number: Stacks F104.S2 W55 1998

Jefferson vindicated :fallacies, omissions, and contradictions in the Hemings genealogical search /Cynthia H. Burton ; foreword by James A. Bear, Jr.

194 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm., Re-examines the controversy over the nature of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings by looking at the DNA evidence, written accounts, oral histories, and other sources in an attempt to resolve ambiguities and speculations, and determine their rel...

Date: c2005.

Creators: Burton, Cynthia H. Bear, James Adam.

GUSN: 259771

Call Number: Stacks E332.25.B87 2005

Two hundred years in South Hingham, 1746-1946 :the story of a church and a community /by Donald F. Robinson.

xi, 261 p., [1] p. of plates : ill., folded map ; 23 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Robinson, Donald F.

GUSN: 259772

Call Number: Stacks F74.H6 R63 1980

Winfield House /Marcus Binney and Maria Tuttle ; photographs by James Mortimer.

171 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Binney, Marcus. Tuttle, Maria. Mortimer, James.

GUSN: 259773

Call Number: Coll. NA4445.G72 B56 2008

Reflections :Quincy & the South Shore, a pictorial history.Volume 1 /Published by The Patriot Ledger, James F. Plugh, publisher.

vii, 132 p. : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm., Gathered from personal collections by the Patriot Ledger and designed to show life stories, contains photographs of people and places in Quincy and the South Shore area taken prior to 1960.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Patriot Ledger.

GUSN: 259774

Call Number: Stacks F74.Q7 R44 2003

Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland /Albert E. Richardson ; introductory notes by H. Stafford Bryant, Jr.

xxxiv, 123 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Richardson, A. E. Sir, (Albert Edward), 1880-1964.

GUSN: 259775

Call Number: Stacks NA966.R52 1982

Pioneers of American landscape design :an annotated bibliography /edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Lisa E. Crowder ; research assistants, Sally Boazberg ... [et al.] ; sponsors, The Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill ... [et al.].

142 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Birnbaum, Charles A. Crowder, Lisa E., 1964- Boazberg, Sally. Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States (Project) Historic Landscape Initiative (Project)

GUSN: 259776

Call Number: Stacks Z5996.5.U6 P56 1993

Celebrating the Republic :presidential ceremony and popular sovereignty, from Washington to Monroe /Sandra Moats.

xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., "In Celebrating the Republic, Sandra Moats examines how the first five presidents - with special emphasis on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe - invented the American political culture that endures today. Drawing from the chaotic political culture of ...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Moats, Sandra.

GUSN: 259777

Call Number: Stacks E176.1.M73 2010

Hotel :an American history /A.K. Sandoval-Strausz.

375 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 27 cm., Presents a history of the nineteenth-century first-class hotel, of what hotels have meant to American business, culture, and racial politics.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.

GUSN: 259778

Call Number: Stacks TX909.S25 2007

Designing the Maine landscape /Theresa Mattor and Lucie Teegarden ; preface by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. ; foreword by Charles E. Beveridge.

216 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Mattor, Theresa. Teegarden, Lucie.

GUSN: 259779

Call Number: Stacks F20.M35 2009

A genius for place :American landscapes of the country place era /Robin Karson ; with photographs by Carol Betsch.

xxiii, 428 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.,

Date: c2007.

Creators: Karson, Robin S. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 259780

Call Number: Stacks SB469.9.K37 2007

Shaker design :out of this world /Jean M. Burks.

xxx, 245 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm., "The Shakers were guided by the principles of utility, honesty, and order in both their work and worship, and this belief system influenced the physical expression of the goods they produced for use at home and for sale outside their communities. This book presents ...

Date: c2008.

Creators: Burks, Jean M., 1949-

GUSN: 259781

Call Number: Coll. NK807.B84 2008

Subjects unto the same king :Indians, English, and the contest for authority in colonial New England /Jenny Hale Pulsipher.

361 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm., "Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century New England. Rather, the story was much m...

Date: c2005.

Creators: Pulsipher, Jenny Hale.

GUSN: 259782

Call Number: Stacks E78.N5 P85 2005

An island garden /Celia Thaxter ; with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam ; introduction by Allen Lacy.

xiv, ix, 126 p. [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1988, c1894.

Creators: Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

GUSN: 259783

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB466.U7 C458 1988

Architekturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts /M. Scharabi.

x, 388 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Scharabi, Mohamed.

GUSN: 259784

Call Number: Stacks NA645.S32 1993

English slip-decorated earthenware at Williamsburg /Leslie B. Grigsby.

80 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Grigsby, Leslie B. (Leslie Brown)

GUSN: 259785

Call Number: Coll. NK4085.G75 1993

Bertram Goodhue :his life and residential architecture /Romy Wyllie.

224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm., "An architect of exceptional vision, whose work is still relevant today, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924) died at a crucial moment, when he was severing his ties to traditionalism and establishing himself as the leader of a new architectural style. This book ...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Wyllie, Romy.

GUSN: 259786

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.G6 W95 2007

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