Historic New England

Duxbury :a guide /Katherine H. Pillsbury.

viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Pillsbury, Katherine H. Duxbury Rural and Historical Society (Duxbury, Mass.)

GUSN: 242415

Call Number: Stacks F74.D95 P54 1999

A city so grand :the rise of an American metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 /Stephen Puleo.

xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., The book is a history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city. Once upon a time, Boston Town was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of th...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Puleo, Stephen.

GUSN: 242417

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.P966 2010

Maid as muse :how servants changed Emily Dickinson's life and language /Aâife Murray.

xi, 299 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Murray, Aife.

GUSN: 242419

Call Number: Stacks PS1541.Z5 M86 2009

Bold vision :the development of the parks of Portland, Maine /edited by Theo H.B.M. Holtwijk and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

xiv, 225 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 x 32 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Holtwijk, Theo H. B. M. Shettleworth, Earle G.

GUSN: 242421

Call Number: Stacks SB482.M2 P725 1999

Scrapbooks :an American history /Jessica Helfand.

190 p. : ill. ; 24 x 32 cm., Scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books a moment, a day, or a lifetime. Examine the history of the American scrapbook-- their origins, their makers, their diverse forms, the reasons for their popularity, and their place in American culture.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Helfand, Jessica. J.M. Kaplan Fund.

GUSN: 242423

Call Number: Stacks TR465.H445 2008 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Glass plates and wooden boats :the yachting photography of Willard B. Jackson at Marblehead, 1897-1936 /Matthew P. Murphy.

192 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Murphy, Matthew P. Jackson, Willard B.

GUSN: 242425

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR670.5.M87 2006

Folk art in Maine :uncommon treasures, 1750-1925 /edited by Kevin D. Murphy ; photography by Ellen McDermott ; introduction by Stacy C. Hollander ; project directors, Charles E. Burden and Raymond C. Egan.

143 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Murphy, Kevin D. McDermott, Ellen.

GUSN: 242427

Call Number: Coll. NK835.M2 F65 2008 (and 1 more)

"The troubled roar of the waters" :Vermont in flood and recovery, 1927-1931 /Deborah Pickman Clifford and Nicholas R. Clifford.

xix, 229 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Clifford, Nicholas Rowland.

GUSN: 249105

Call Number: Stacks F54.C58 2007

Museums and memory /edited by Susan A. Crane.

x, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Crane, Susan A.

GUSN: 249106

Call Number: Stacks AM7.M8815 2000

A patchwork garden :unexpected pleasures from a country garden /Sydney Eddison.

225 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Eddison, Sydney, 1932-

GUSN: 249107

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U7 E334 1990

Landscape with figures :nature & culture in New England /Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

xx, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

GUSN: 249108

Call Number: Stacks GF504.N45 R93 2001

A history of American architecture :buildings in their cultural and technological context /Mark Gelernter.

xxii, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Gelernter, Mark, 1951-

GUSN: 249109

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA705.G35 1999

The naked Quaker :true crimes and controversies from the courts of colonial New England /Diane Rapaport.

xii, 145 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Rapaport, Diane.

GUSN: 249110

Call Number: Stacks HV6793.N295 R36 2007

Masonic temples :freemasonry, ritual architecture, and masculine archetypes /William D. Moore.

xix, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., "In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape." "Using New York State as a case study, Moore no...

Date: c2006.

Creators: Moore, William D., 1963-

GUSN: 249111

Call Number: Stacks NA8001.M66 2006

Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn :a social history of the tea room craze in America /Jan Whitaker.

xiii, 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Whitaker, Jan.

GUSN: 249112

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2905.W44 2002

A time to every purpose :the four seasons in American culture /Michael Kammen.

336 p., 48 p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2004.

Creators: Kammen, Michael G.

GUSN: 249113

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K295 2004

Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in the mill city :changing families, communities, institutions-- thirty years afterward /edited by Tuyet-Lan Pho, Jeffrey N. Gerson, and Sylvia R. Cowan.

xiii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Pho, Tuyet-Lan. Gerson, Jeffrey N., 1956- Cowan, Sylvia R.

GUSN: 249114

Call Number: 85M Stacks E184.K47 S68 2007

Snow in America /Bernard Mergen.

xxi, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Mergen, Bernard.

GUSN: 249115

Call Number: Stacks QC929.S7 M44 1997

Snow Squall :the last American clipper ship /Nicholas Dean ; expedition accounts by David C. Switzer.

xvi, 301 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Dean, Nicholas. Switzer, David C.

GUSN: 249116

Call Number: Stacks VM311.S7 D43 2001

The lost fleet :a Yankee whaler's struggle against the Confederate Navy and Arctic disaster /Marc Songini.

xii, 432 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Songini, Marc L.

GUSN: 249117

Call Number: Stacks SH383.2.S66 2007

Quick escapes Boston :25 weekend getaways from the hub /by Sandy MacDonald.

xiv, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: MacDonald, Sandy.

GUSN: 249118

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.M33 2000

Saving America's treasures /National Trust for Historic Preservation ; photographs by Ira Block ; text by Dwight Young ; essays by Ian Frazier ... [et al.].

192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Young, Dwight. Block, Ira. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. National Geographic Society (U.S.)

GUSN: 249119

Call Number: Stacks E159.S26 2000

Massachusetts from colony to commonwealth :an illustrated history /Judith Freeman Clark & Robert J. Allison ; picture research by Ruth Owen Jones.

338 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Clark, Judith Freeman. Allison, Robert J. Jones, Ruth Owen.

GUSN: 249120

Call Number: 85M Stacks F64.C58 2002

New Haven Railroad /Peter E. Lynch.

160 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Lynch, Peter E., 1945- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company.

GUSN: 249121

Call Number: Stacks TF25.N726 L96 2003

New Hampshire then and now :contemporary photographs and essay /by Peter E. Randall.

xiv, 162 p. : chiefly ill., col. map ; 24 x 31 cm.

Date: 2006

Creators: Randall, Peter, 1940- New Hampshire Historical Society.

GUSN: 249122

Call Number: Stacks F35.R37 2006

Picturing Nantucket :an art history of the island with paintings from the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association : works by artists born before 1900 /edited by Michael A. Jehle ; with essays and catalogue by Margaret Moore Booker ... [et al.] ; additional contributions by Peter Benes ... [et al.].

ix, 253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Jehle, Michael A. Booker, Margaret Moore. Benes, Peter. Nantucket Historical Association.

GUSN: 249123

Call Number: Stacks ND1460.N33 N36 2000

A place of beauty :the artists and gardens of the Cornish Colony /Alma M. Gilbert & Judith B. Tankard.

viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Gilbert-Smith, Alma. Tankard, Judith B.

GUSN: 249124

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB466.U65 N524 2000

Portable and prefabricated houses of the thirties :the E.F. Hodgson Company 1935 and 1939 catalogs : an unabridged reprint /[text additions by] Paul H. Tedesco and [composition and design by] James B. Tedesco.

xlii, 63, 48 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Tedesco, Paul H. Tedesco, James B. Dover Historical Society (Dover, Mass.) E.F. Hodgson Co.

GUSN: 249125

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.T43 2007

Light on the hill,by Russell E. Miller.

v. illus., facsim., map, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [1966]-

Creators: Miller, Russell E.

GUSN: 249126

Call Number: Stacks LD5393.M5 1966

American diaries in manuscript, 1580-1954;a descriptive bibliography.

xvi, 176 p. 25 cm.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Matthews, William, 1905-1975. Matthews, William, 1905-1975. American diaries.

GUSN: 249127

Call Number: Stacks PS669.3.M32 1974

Textiles in New England II :four centuries of material life /editor, Peter Benes ... [et al.].

272 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1999, c2001.

Creators: Benes, Peter. Boston University. Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (24th : 1999)

GUSN: 249128

Call Number: 85M Stacks F1.D82 1999

Samuel Adams :father of the American Revolution /Mark Puls.

273 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm., "A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers, Samuel Adams forced Britain into coercive military measures that ultimately led to America's irreversible split from the empire. He was behind nearly every major protest over British rule, and his pioneerin...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Puls, Mark, 1963-

GUSN: 249129

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.A2 P85 2006

Sojourner Truth :a life, a symbol /Nell Irvin Painter.

xii, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed...

Date: c1996.

Creators: Painter, Nell Irvin.

GUSN: 249387

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T8 P35 1996

Reflections in Bullough's Pond :economy and ecosystem in New England /Diana Muir.

x, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., The author uses Bullough's Pond in Newton, Massachusetts to trace the history of man's relationship with nature including survival, innovation, exploitation, and conservation.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Muir, Diana.

GUSN: 249388

Call Number: Stacks HC107.A11 M84 2000

Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American Renaissance woman /edited, with an introduction, by Bruce A. Ronda.

xviii, 477 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894. Ronda, Bruce A.

GUSN: 249389

Call Number: 85 Stacks CT275.P484 A4 1984

From Shaker lands and Shaker hands :a survey of the industries /M. Stephen Miller.

xv, 190 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Miller, M. Stephen.

GUSN: 249390

Call Number: Stacks BX9784.M55 2007 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Shaping a nation :twentieth-century American architecture and its makers /Carter Wiseman.

412 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm., An illustrated survey of twentieth-century American architecture, discussing major architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and I.M. Pei; examining some of the significant trends and movements; and looking at landmark buildings.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Wiseman, Carter.

GUSN: 249391

Call Number: NA712.W57 1998

Marshfield, a town of villages, 1640-1990 /Cynthia Hagar Krusell, Betty Magoun Bates.

234 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: Krusell, Cynthia Hagar, 1929- Bates, Betty Magoun.

GUSN: 249392

Call Number: Stacks F74.M4 K78 1990

The legacy of James Bowdoin III /introduction by Katharine J. Watson, essays by Kenneth E. Carpenter ... [et al.] ; appendix essay by Laura Fecych Sprague.

xix, 247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Carpenter, Kenneth E., 1936- Bowdoin College. Museum of Art.

GUSN: 249393

Call Number: 85M Stacks F69.B76 L44 1994

New England in focus :the Arthur Griffin story /Herbert A. Kenny and Damon Reed ; introduction by John Updike.

128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 x 31 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Kenny, Herbert A. Griffin, Arthur, 1903- Reed, Damon. Updike, John. Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art.

GUSN: 249394

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR647.G74 K46 1995

Over 100 of the Northeast's old-time best lost diners and roadside restaurants of New England and New York /by Will Anderson.

184 p. : ill., photos. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Anderson, Will, 1940-

GUSN: 249395

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX945.A6557 2001

A market to explore :a history of public-private partnership in the promotion of trade and investment between the Netherlands and the United States /Walter H. Salzmann.

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

Date: 1994.

Creators: Salzmann, Walter Henri, 1958-

GUSN: 249396

Call Number: Stacks HF1555.S25 1994

A most agreeable man :Lyman Foster Brackett: performer, composer and hymnal editor for the Church of Christ, Scientist /by Peter J. Hodgson.

viii, 93 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Hodgson, Peter J.

GUSN: 249397

Call Number: Stacks BV390.H6 M6 2003

The Mount Vernon Street Warrens :a Boston story, 1860-1910 /Martin Green.

xvi, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Green, Martin Burgess, 1927-

GUSN: 249398

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.W35 G74 1989

William Morris :selected writings and designs /edited with an introduction by Asa Briggs ; with a supplement by Graeme Shankland on William Morris, designer ; illustrated by twenty-four plates.

308, [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Morris, William, 1834-1896. Dendy, William, 1948-, former owner. Shankland, Graeme. Briggs, Asa, 1921-

GUSN: 249399

Call Number: Stacks PR5072.B7 1968

Place names of old Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts /by Merrill F. McLane.

83 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: McLane, Merrill F.

GUSN: 249400

Call Number: Stacks F74.R68 M38 1998

The perfectly painted house :a foolproof guide for choosing exterior paint colors /Bonnie Rosser Krims.

136 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Krims, Bonnie Rosser.

GUSN: 249401

Call Number: Stacks TT320.K75 2001

The placenames of South Berwick /Old Berwick Historical Society ; compiled and written by Wendy K. Pirsig ; [edited by] Margaret Brentano.

xi, 306 p. ; ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Pirsig, Wendy K. Brentano, Margaret. Old Berwick Historical Society (South Berwick, Me.)

GUSN: 249402

Call Number: Stacks F29.S67 P57 2007

The Piscataqua Valley in the age of sail :a brief history /Russell M. Lawson.

124 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Lawson, Russell M., 1957-

GUSN: 249403

Call Number: Stacks F42.P4 L39 2007

Made in Maine :from home and workshop, to mill and factory /Paul E. Rivard.

158 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Rivard, Paul E.

GUSN: 249404

Call Number: Stacks HD9727.M2 R58 2007

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