Historic New England

A documentary history of American interiors : from the colonial era to 1915 / Edgar de N. Mayhew & Minor Myers, Jr.

xiii, 399 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Mayhew, Edgar de Noailles, 1913- Myers, Minor, 1942- joint author.

GUSN: 147473

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK2002.M39 c.1 (and 1 more)

A Windsor handbook; comprising illustrations & descriptions of Winsor furniture of all periods, including side chairs, arm chairs, comb-backs, writing-arm Windsors, babies' high backs, babies' low chairs, child's chairs, also settees, love seats, stools & tables, by Wallace Nutting.

192 p. illus. 18 cm.

Date: [c1917]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 147474

Call Number: Stacks NK2715.N8 c.1 (and 2 more)

Furniture of the Pilgrim century [of American origin] 1620-1720, with maple and pine to 1800, including colonial utensils and wrought-iron house hardware into the 19th century, by Wallace Nutting, illustrated with more than fifteen hundred examples. Completely rev. and greatly enl.

716 p. incl. illus., plates. 28 cm.

Date: [c1924]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 147475

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.N7 1924

Furniture of the Pilgrim century, 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware, by Wallace Nutting, illustrated with one thousand photographs by the author hitherto unpublished.

ix p., 1 l., 587 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [c1921]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 147476

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.N7

American furniture of the nineteenth century / Celia Jackson Otto.

229 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1965.

Creators: Otto, Celia Jackson.

GUSN: 147477

Call Number: Stacks NK2407.O8 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Dunlaps & their furniture.

310 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: [1970]

Creators: Parsons, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1904- Dunlap, John, 1746-1792. Currier Gallery of Art

GUSN: 147478

Call Number: Stacks NK2439.D86 P37 c.1 (and 2 more)

Furniture treasury (mostly of American origin) All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils, by Wallace Nutting; five thousand illustrations with descriptions on the same page.

3 v. illus. (incl. facsims.) 28 cm.

Date: [1928-33]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 147479

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.N73 v.1 (and 1 more)

Color schemes for the modern home, by Derek Patmore.

37, [1] p., 1 ¾. 1 col. mounted illus., 28 col. mounted pl. 26 x 19 cm.

Date: [1936]

Creators: Patmore, Derek, 1908-

GUSN: 147480

Call Number: Stacks NK2113.P33 1936

Americans at home: from the Colonists to the Late Victorians; a pictorial source book of American domestic interiors with an appendix on inns and taverns [by] Harold L. Peterson.

xviii p. 205 plates. 29 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Peterson, Harold Leslie, 1922-

GUSN: 147481

Call Number: Coll. NK2002.P4 c.1 (and 1 more)

American furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [by] Richard H. Randall, Jr.

xvii, 276 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Randall, Richard H. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 147482

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.B65 c.1 (and 2 more)

American interior design, the traditions and development of domestic design from colonial times to the present.

309 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: Rogers, Meyric R. (Meyric Reynold), 1893-

GUSN: 147483

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK2003.R6 c.1 (and 1 more)

The tasteful interlude : American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917 / William Seale.

284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Seale, William.

GUSN: 147484

Call Number: Stacks NK2003.5.S42 1981 c.1 (and 2 more)

Interiors of Virginia houses of colonial times, by Edith Tunis Sale, from the beginnings of Virginia to the Revolution ... illustrated with three hundred and seventy-one original plates.

xxiii, 503 p. incl. col. front., illus. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Sale, Edith Dabney Tunis, d. 1932.

GUSN: 147485

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.V5 S3 1927a (and 1 more)

Recreating the historic house interior / William Seale.

x, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Seale, William.

GUSN: 147486

Call Number: Stacks E159.S49

The Antiques guide to decorative arts in America, 1600-1875. With an introd. by Alice Winchester. Illustrated with 192 drawings by Pauline W. Inman and 434 photos.

xv, 463 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Stillinger, Elizabeth. Antiques.

GUSN: 147487

Call Number: Stacks NK805.S7 1972

Decorative draperies & upholstery, by Edward Thorne; descriptive text by Henry W. Frohne.

xv, 277 p. illus. 32 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Frohne, Henry W. Thorne, Edward, illus.

GUSN: 147489

Call Number: Stacks NK3195.F7

Authentic decor : the domestic interior, 1620-1920 / Peter Thornton.

408 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Thornton, Peter, 1925-

GUSN: 147490

Call Number: Ref. NK1860.T49 c.1 1984 (and 1 more)

The tasteful interlude : American interiors through the camera's eye, 1860-1917 / William Seale.

256 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Seale, William.

GUSN: 147491

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK2003.5.S42 (and 1 more)

A book of distinctive interiors; ed. by William A. Vollmer.

128 p. illus. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Vollmer, William Auerbach, 1886- ed.

GUSN: 147492

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.V6 1912

Principles of home decoration, with practical examples, by Candace Wheeler.

5 p. l., 3-227 p. front, plates. 22 1/2 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Wheeler, Candace (Thurber), Mrs. 1827-1923.

GUSN: 147493

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.W55 1903

The Williamsburg collection of antique furnishings.

120 p. col. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

GUSN: 147494

Call Number: Stacks NK838.W54 C64 1973

Two towns, Concord & Wethersfield : a comparative exhibition of regional culture, 1635-1850 / Peter Benes.

v. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1982-

Creators: Benes, Peter. Concord Antiquarian Society. Museum.

GUSN: 147495

Call Number: Stacks F104.W4 B46 1982 (and 1 more)

The wrought covenant : source material for the study of craftsmen and community in southeastern New England, 1620-1700 / Robert Blair St. George.

132 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: St. George, Robert Blair. Brockton Art Center--Fuller Memorial.

GUSN: 147496

Call Number: Stacks NK2406.S3 1979 c.1 (and 2 more)

At home in Manhattan : modern decorative arts, 1925 to the Depression / Karen Davies.

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

Date: 1983.

Creators: Davies, Karen. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 147497

Call Number: Stacks NK808.D38 1983 (and 1 more)

A short account of no. 3 Saville Row, London, recently acquired by Basil Dighton.

5, [32] p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1914?].

Creators: Dighton, B. L. (Basil Lewis)

GUSN: 147498

Call Number: Stacks NK2049.L6 D53 1914

Design in context / [by Penny Sparke].

256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Sparke, Penny.

GUSN: 147499

Call Number: Stacks NK1370.S8 D4 1987

The Gothic revival style in America, 1830-1870 / by Katherine S. Howe and David B. Warren ; with an introduction by Jane B. Davies.

viii, 101 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 27 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Howe, Katherine S. Warren, David B., 1937- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

GUSN: 147500

Call Number: Coll. N6510.5.R6 H68 1976 (and 1 more)

High Victorian design : a travelling exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum for the National Programme of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1974-1975 = Le style de la grande âepoque victorienne : une exposition itinâerante ... / by Simon Jervis.

300 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Jervis, Simon. Victoria and Albert Museum. National Gallery of Canada.

GUSN: 147501

Call Number: Stacks N6767.J47 (and 1 more)

Loan exhibition of early American furniture and the decorative crafts : for the benefit of Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass. ...

100 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1925?]

Creators: Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass.

GUSN: 147502

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.L65x c.1 (and 2 more)

An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, by Thomas Arthur Strange.

400 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1903]

Creators: Strange, Thomas Arthur.

GUSN: 147503

Call Number: Coll. NK2049.S8

Living with antiques. Edited by Alice Winchester. Foreword by Joseph Downs.

153 p. front. illus. 30 cm.

Date: [c1941]

Creators: Winchester, Alice.

GUSN: 147504

Call Number: Stacks NK2240.W5 1941

Early American furniture makers, a social and biographical study. New York, Crowell.

183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976, c1930.

Creators: Ormsbee, Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton), 1890-

GUSN: 147505

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.O7 1976

Duncan Phyfe and the English regency, 1795-1830, by Nancy McClelland; foreword by Edward Knoblock.

xxix, 364 p. 1l. incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 32 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: McClelland, Nancy Vincent, 1876-

GUSN: 147506

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.P5 M25

John and Thomas Seymour, cabinetmakers in Boston, 1794-1816.

393 p. (chiefly plates (part col.) map, facsims.) 32 cm.

Date: 1959.

Creators: Stoneman, Vernon C.

GUSN: 147507

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.S45 S73 (and 1 more)

The book of furniture and decoration: period and modern, by Joseph Aronson.

xi, [1] p., 1 ¾., 15-356 p. : incl. illus., plates, diagrs., front. 29 cm.

Date: [1941]

Creators: Aronson, Joseph, 1898-

GUSN: 147508

Call Number: Stacks NK2230.A7 1941

English and American furniture : a pictorial handbook of fine furniture made in Great Britain and in the American colonies, some in the sixteenth century but principally in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / by Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter, with more than 400 illustrations.

9-311 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1929.

Creators: Cescinsky, Herbert, b. 1875. Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927, joint author.

GUSN: 147509

Call Number: Coll. NK2529.C36 1929a

Horatio Greenough, the first American sculptor.

382 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.

Date: [1963]

Creators: Wright, Nathalia.

GUSN: 147209

Call Number: Stacks NB237.G8 W7

Aloft on butterflies' wings : the story of the artist Charles Henry Granger and his family / by Martha Chadbourne Kettelle.

ix, 150 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1976. (

Creators: Kettelle, Martha Chadbourne.

GUSN: 147210

Call Number: Stacks ND237.G7 K4 (and 1 more)

A sketch of Chester Harding, artist, drawn by his own hand, ed. by his daughter Margaret E. White.

1 p. ¾., iv p., 1 ¾., [5]-264 p. front., ports. 19 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Harding, Chester, 1792-1866. White, Margaret E. (Margaret Eliot), 1823-1903, ed.

GUSN: 147211

Call Number: Stacks ND237.H3 A3

A truthful likeness : Chester Harding and his portraits / by Leah Lipton.

195 p. : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1985.

Creators: Lipton, Leah. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) J.B. Speed Art Museum.

GUSN: 147212

Call Number: Stacks ND1329.H36 A4 1985

Childe Hassam, comp. by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; with an introduction by Ernest Haskell.

x, [69] p. incl. front. (port.) illus. 18 cm.

Date: [c1922]

Creators: Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935. Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, 1886-1965, comp.

GUSN: 147213

Call Number: Stacks ND237.H345 P6

Winslow Homer, compiled by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart.

xi, [69] p. incl. front. (port.) illus. 18 cm.

Date: [c1923]

Creators: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910. Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel, 1886-1965, comp.

GUSN: 147214

Call Number: Stacks ND237.H7 A3

Art-life of William Morris Hunt, by Helen M. Knowlton. With illustrations from his works.

xii, 219 p. incl. front. plates, ports. 21 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Knowlton, Helen Mary, 1832-

GUSN: 147215

Call Number: Stacks ND237.H9 K5

Boston days of William Morris Hunt, by Martha A.S. Shannon.

x, 165 p. plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Shannon, Martha A. S.

GUSN: 147216

Call Number: Stacks ND237.H9 S5

The artists of America: a series of biographical sketches of American artists; with portraits and designs on steel. By C. Edwards Lester ...

3 p. ¾., [v]-vi, 257 p. front., 8 port. 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Lester, Charles Edwards, 1815-1890.

GUSN: 147217

Call Number: Stacks N6536.L6

Early American painters; illustrated by examples in the collection of the New-York Historical Society, by John Hill Morgan ...

viii, 136 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 25 cm.

Date: 1921.

Creators: Morgan, John Hill, 1870-1945. New-York Historical Society.

GUSN: 147218

Call Number: Stacks ND205.M6

Ammi Phillips: portrait painter, 1788-1865. Introd. by Mary Black. Catalog by Barbara C. and Lawrence B. Holdridge.

56 p. illus. (part col.), facsims. 29 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Phillips, Ammi, 1788-1865. Holdridge, Barbara C., 1929- Holdridge, Lawrence B. Museum of American Folk Art. Albany Institute of History and Art.

GUSN: 147219

Call Number: Stacks ND237.P47 A4 1969 (and 1 more)

Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924.

156 p. mounted col. illus., plates, ports. 19 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Rhys, Hedley Howell. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 147220

Call Number: Stacks ND237.P85 R5

Paul Revere's engravings, by Clarence S. Brigham.

xvi, 181 p. 77 plates (part fold., part col.) 32 cm.

Date: 1954.

Creators: Brigham, Clarence Saunders, 1877-1963. American Antiquarian Society.

GUSN: 147221

Call Number: Stacks NE539.R5 A57 (and 1 more)

Rogers groups, thought & wrought by John Rogers, by Mr. and Mrs. Chetwood Smith; with introduction by Clarence S. Brigham.

6 p. ¾., 145 p. incl. illus., plates, facsims. front., plates, ports. 27 cm.

Date: 1934.

Creators: Smith, Chetwood, 1873- Smith, Mary Chapin, Mrs., 1872- joint author.

GUSN: 147222

Call Number: Stacks NB237.R65 S6

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