Historic New England

Art and work :as shown in the several artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta, metal, wood, and textile fabrics : as well as in the various details associated with decorative art : the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, Mediµval, Italian, Renaissance and Oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam," together with other designs from more recent authorities /by Owen W. Davis.

36 pages, 85 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 1885.

Creators: Davis, Owen W.

GUSN: 360738

Call Number: NK1175.D3

The last whole earth catalog :access to tools /[edited by Stewart Brand]

447 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm

Creators: Brand, Stewart, editor. Portola Institute,

GUSN: 360739

Call Number: TS199.L37 1971

Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums /Jenny F. So.

359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: So, Jenny F., author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360740

Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 H375 2018

Catalogue of the Feinberg collection of Japanese art /edited by Rachel Saunders.

263 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It represents...

Creators: Saunders, Rachel (Rachel M.), editor. Harvard Art Museums.

GUSN: 360741

Call Number: N7352.C38 2021

Social fabrics :inscribed textiles from Medieval Egyptian tombs /edited by Mary McWilliams and Jochen Sokoly ; with contributions by Robin Hanson, Mary McWilliams, Meredith Montague, Nasser Rabbat, Jochen Sokoly, David Stern, Katherine M. Taronas, Julie H. Wertz, Elizabeth Dospéel Williams, and Meredyth Lynn Winter.

x, 163 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 x 26 cm, Social Fabrics looks at tiraz - highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic - to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story a...

Creators: McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor. Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur), editor. Harvard University. Art Museums,

GUSN: 360742

Call Number: NK8808.9.S63 2021

Technologies of the image :art in 19th-century Iran /edited by David J. Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams ; with contributions by Farshid Emami, Mary McWilliams, David J. Roxburgh, and Mira Xenia Schwerda.

xviii, 173 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm, With a few notable exceptions, scholars have historically understudied and often underappreciated the art of Iran in the Qajar era (1779-1925). This catalogue presents a fresh take on the art of the period, se...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor, author. McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor, author. Emami, Farshid, author. Schwerda, Mira Xenia, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360743

Call Number: N7280.T37 2017

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iranedited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter.

121 Seiten, 118 unnummerierte Tafelseiten Illustrationen 37 cm, Harvard's Qajar Album--57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works--is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian classic literatu...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J. 1965- Herausgeber Barnes, Trent Verfasser Harvard Art Museums

GUSN: 360744

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iran /edited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter.

121 pages, 118 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm, Harvard's Qajar Album--57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works--is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian ...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor. Barnes, Trent, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360745

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

Object lessons :the Bauhaus and Harvard /edited by Laura Muir ; with contributions by Francesca G. Bewer [and 17 others].

286 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages ; 24 x 15 cm), bound inside the back cover, "A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus. Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th cen...

Creators: Muir, Laura, editor. Bewer, Francesca G. (Francesca Gabrielle), 1960- contributor. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360746

Call Number: N332.G33 B4564 2021

Architectural graphic standards for architects, engineers, decorators, builders, and draftsmen /by Charles George Ramsey, Harold Reeve Sleeper.

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [1946]

Creators: Ramsey, Charles George, 1884-1963. Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960.

GUSN: 360747

Call Number: TH2031.R35 1946

Encyclopedia of architecture :a dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, etc., from the earliest times to the present /by Peter Nicholson ; edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: [1850?]

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Lomax, Edward. Gunyon, Thomas.

GUSN: 360748

Call Number: NA3 1 .N5 1850

Preventive conservation :collection storage /[editors] Lisa Elkin and Christopher A. Norris.

xv, 926 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care, advancing conservation while at the same time promoting accessibility and use. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage covers the storage of all types of collections, including science, fin...

Creators: Elkin, Lisa, 1966- editor. Norris, Christopher A., 1966- editor. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Smithsonian Institution, George Washington University,

GUSN: 360865

Call Number: Coll AM145.P74 2019

Art in the Massachusetts State House.

78 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 x 28 cm, ...Traces the history of its art collections and the commission's role in acquiring various works; includes a complete catalog of portraits, sculpture and other works...

Date: 1986.

Creators: Massachusetts Art Commission.

GUSN: 360866

Call Number: Coll N6535.B7 A78 1986

Edith Wharton's Lenox /Cornelia Brooke Gilder.

222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author wit...

Creators: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke, author.

GUSN: 361311

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z649 2017

The organ in New England :an account of its use and manufacture to the end of the nineteenth century /by Barbara Owen.

xx, 629 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361312

Call Number: Stacks ML561.O95

The almighty wall :the architecture of Henry Vaughan /William Morgan.

xi, 210 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Morgan, William, 1944-

GUSN: 361313

Call Number: Stacks NA737.V38 M67 1983

The life of a musician woven into a strand of history of the New England Conservatory of Music,by Henry Morton Dunham.

235 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1931]

Creators: Dunham, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1853-1929.

GUSN: 361314

Call Number: Stacks ML416.D8

The great organ at Methuen :from its celebrated arrival in nineteenth-century Boston to the present /Barbara Owen.

xiii, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm., In the middle of the nineteenth-century, American organbuilding reached a milestone when, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, a large concert organ--really the first of its kind in the country--was opened in Boston's relatively-new Music Hall....

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361315

Call Number: Stacks ML594.M48 O94 2011

The Great estates, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930 /by the Junior League of Greenwich.

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut.

GUSN: 361316

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 G74 1986

Larz and Isabel Anderson :wealth and celebrity in the Gilded Age /Stephen T. Moskey.

xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This is the story of Larz and Isabel Anderson, wealthy socialites of the Gilded Age, whose extraordinary lives spanned a century of American history-from the Civil War to World War II. Their world included dozens of celebrities who helped define modern culture...

Creators: Moskey, Stephen T., 1950- author.

GUSN: 361317

Call Number: Stacks E748.A217 M67 2016

Daughters of the Samurai :a journey from East to West and back /Janice P. Nimura.

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to h...

Creators: Nimura, Janice P., author.

GUSN: 361318

Call Number: Stacks E184.J3 N484 2015

Daisy Turner's kin :an African American family saga /Jane C. Beck.

295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., "A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--'a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved'--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and cont...

Creators: Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.

GUSN: 361319

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T93 B43 2015

American rebels :how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution /Nina Sankovitch.

viii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; 25 cm, "Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revol...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361320

Call Number: Stacks F74.B6 S26 2020

Restaurant republic :the rise of public dining in Boston /Kelly Erby.

xxiii, 151 pages ; 22 cm, "Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such...

Creators: Erby, Kelly, author.

GUSN: 361321

Call Number: Stacks TX909.2.M32 B674 2016

Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Cann, Donald. Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 361322

Call Number: Stacks F74.R67 C36 2003

The new traditional garden :a practical guide to creating and restoring authentic American gardens for homes of all ages /Michael Weishan.

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Provides a compendium of antique plants, plans for antique gardens representing a range of styles and periods, a list of suppliers, and a directory of great historic gardens.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Weishan, Michael.

GUSN: 361323

Call Number: Stacks SB457.53 .W45 1999

Amherst College :the campus guide /an architectural tour by Blair Kamin ; photography by Ralph Lieberman ; foreword by Biddy Martin.

255 pages ; 26 cm + 1 campus guide map., "The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Kamin, Blair, author.

GUSN: 361324

Call Number: Stacks LD153.K36 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

Storied strings :the guitar in American art /Leo G. Mazow ; with additional essays by Philip J. Deloria and Jayson Kerr Dobney.

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Mazow, Leo G., author. Dobney, Jayson Kerr, contributor. Deloria, Philip Joseph, contributor. Nyerges, Alexander Lee, contributor. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361358

Call Number: Coll ML1015.G9 M39 2022

Late of the guards :tattoo designs by Ben Corday /Rich Hardy.

A century-old sketchbook of tattoo designs painted by legendary Los Angeles tattoo artist Ben Corday, presented in lush facsimile. Includes a richly illustrated essay chronicling Corday's life and career.

Date: c2023.

Creators: Hardy, Rich, 1984- author.

GUSN: 361359

Call Number: Stacks GT2345.H37 2023

Architecture constructed :notes on a discipline /Mark Jarzombek.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm, "Archi-Tect explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persist...

Creators: Jarzombek, Mark, author.

GUSN: 361360

Call Number: Stacks NA2500.J37 2023

Nathan A. Cushman :a rugged individualist (1869-1952) /memoirs by his sons, Richard, Harold, and Kenneth ; text by Franklin P. Cole, editor.

x, 161 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

Date: 1984.

Creators: Cushman, Richard. Cole, Franklin P.

GUSN: 327319

Call Number: Stacks CT275.C88 N37

E.A. Bartlett's Nantasket Beach :a pictorial introduction to Hull, Massachusetts during the 1890s /photographs by Edrick A. Bartlett ; text by Dennis R. Means.

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Date: Ã1995.

Creators: Bartlett, Edrick A. Means, Dennis R., 1950- Means Library.

GUSN: 327320

Call Number: Stacks F74.N15 B37 1995

The elegant homes of America 100 years ago /compiled by Skip Whitson.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Whitson, Skip.

GUSN: 327330

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.E55x

Songs of the old town,by Walter J. Phelan ...

41 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portrait) 22 cm

Date: 1930.

Creators: Phelan, Walter Jordan.

GUSN: 327331

Call Number: Stacks PS3531.H25S66

The Paul Revere album,by Howard W. Spurr; containing a complete description of Goss' "Life of Col. Paul Revere," and more than twenty engravings with descriptions of incidents in the life of the hero of the "Midnight ride," April 18, 1775.

43, [1] pages illustrations (including portraits) 22 cm

Date: 1897.

Creators: Spurr, Howard W.

GUSN: 327332

Call Number: Stacks F69.R44

Country by-ways /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

viii, 127 pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Date: 1981.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

GUSN: 327365

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.C6 1981

The day it rained fish :& other encounters of a landscape architect /Sidney Nichols Shurcliff ; [editor, Alice W. Shurcliff].

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1991.

Creators: Shurcliff, Sidney Nichols, 1906- Shurcliff, Alice W.

GUSN: 327366

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.S58 S48x 1991

Rites of way :the politics of transportation in Boston and the U.S. city /Alan Lupo, Frank Colcord, Edmund P. Fowler.

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1971.

Creators: Lupo, Alan, author. Colcord, Frank C. (Frank Carlton), 1925- author. Fowler, Edmund P., 1942- author.

GUSN: 327367

Call Number: Stacks HE355.L84 1971

Mary Pratt Sears, 1864-1928;letters to her friends.Edited by Annie Lyman Sears. With an introduction by Ella Lyman Cabot.

xii, 429 pages frontispiece 24 cm

Date: 1932.

Creators: Sears, Mary Pratt, 1864-1928. Sears, Annie Lyman, editor.

GUSN: 327368

Call Number: Stacks PS2797.S56 Z74 1932

Gropius baut privat :seine Wohnhäuser in Dessau (1925/26) und Lincoln, Mass (1938).

119 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Kraft, Sabine.

GUSN: 327373

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1088.G85 K73 1997

A white heron ;and, the Hiltons' holiday /by Sarah Orne Jewett ; illustrations by Charles and Marcia Oakes Woodbury from Deephaven, 1893.

59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Donahue, Marie.

GUSN: 327374

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.W472 1979

Descendants of John Cogswell :the Cogswell family, 1635-1996 /by Donald James Cogswell.

xxxv, 1044 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm, John Cogswell was born in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England in 1592 and died in Ipswich, Mass. in 1669. Ca. 1615, he married the Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Thompson-vicar of Westbury from 1603-1623. The...

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Cogswell, Donald James.

GUSN: 327375

Call Number: Stacks CS71.C64 1998

The bicentennial of the pipe organ in Vermont, 1814-2014 :the 2013 atlas of the Organ Historical Society /Stephen L. Pinel ; with the assistance of Edgar A. Boadway and Len Levasseur.

xxix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Pinel, Stephen L. Boadway, E. A. (Edgar Atkinson), 1936- Levasseur, Len. Organ Historical Society.

GUSN: 327379

Call Number: Stacks ML561.7.V5 P56 2013

Cephas Thompson's Bristol, Rhode Island :patronage and subjects, 1805-1821 /Keith Arbour.

176 pages ; 23 cm

Creators: Arbour, Keith, author.

GUSN: 327380

Call Number: Stacks ND237.T552 A73 2017

Ultimate visual dictionary.

640 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, Color photographs and detailed text describe more than 50,000 terms and 270 major entries on everything from the prehistoric earth and the sciences to sports, art, and music.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

GUSN: 327476

Call Number: Coll PE1629.D67 1994

Croquêt :the laws and regulations of the game, thoroughly revised, with a description of the implements, etc., etc. ; illustrated with diagrams and engravings /by John Jacques.

30, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1865.

Creators: Jacques, John.

GUSN: 327559

Call Number: Stacks GV931.J36 1865

Remembering the Revolution :memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War /edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., In today s United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted,...

Creators: McDonnell, Michael A.

GUSN: 328099

Call Number: Stacks E209.R39 2013

Opening the Museum :history and strategies toward a more inclusive institution /Patricia A. Steuert, with Aylette Jenness and Joanne Jones-Rizzi.

76 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã1993.

Creators: Steuert, Patricia A. Jenness, Aylette. Jones-Rizzi, Joanne. Children's Museum of Boston. Rockefeller Foundation.

GUSN: 328100

Call Number: Stacks AM101.B7256 S74 1993

A tourist's New England :travel fiction, 1820-1920 /Dona Brown, editor.

viii, 217 pages ; 22 cm., Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: Brown, Dona.

GUSN: 328101

Call Number: Stacks PS648.N38 T68 1999

The way we worked /by Bruce I. Bustard ; foreword by Allen Weinstein.

92 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Bustard, Bruce I., 1954-

GUSN: 328102

Call Number: Stacks HD8066.B87 2005

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