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Collecting Nantucket :artifacts from an island community /Michael R. Harrison.

x, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community highlights historic artifacts, documents, and works of art from the permanent collection of the Nantucket Historical Association. It tells the stories of these objects and of their creator...

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Nature's nation :American art and environment /Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Teddy Cruz, Rachael Z. DeLue, Mark Dion, Fonna Forman, Laura Turner Igoe, Robin Kelsey, Anne McClintock, Timothy Morton, Rob Nixon, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Kimia Shahi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm, "Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment offers a compelling new vision of American art, examining for the first time how artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding while contributing to the development of modern ...

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Concrete changes :architecture, politics, and the design of Boston City Hall /Brian M. Sirman.

ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm, 'From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new generation of politicians sw...

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Between city and country :Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia /Ronald Dale Karr.

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

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Weathervanes of New England /Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer.

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "First used to gauge ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the skyline for more than three centuries. This comprehensive study of the development of the weathervane describes changes in form and functi...

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The world the trains made :a century of great railroad architecture in the United States and Canada /James D. Dilts.

xiv, 271 pages : color illustrations, plan ; 29 cm, The World the Trains Made will appeal to railroad and architecture buffs, preservationists considering the adaptive reuse of historic structures, and anyone concerned about our transportation priorities in the age of climate change--particularly wi...

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Battle green Vietnam :the 1971 march on Concord, Lexington, and Boston /Elise Lemire.

219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston tells the story of how America's antiwar Vietnam veterans finally grabbed and held the national spotlight by simultaneously mobilizing two powerful tools: place and performance. The aim o...

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Poland Spring :a tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900 /David L. Richards.

x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Between 1860 and 1900 the Ricker family's rustic frontier farm became the world-renowned summer community of Poland Spring, Maine, a "middle landscape" where upper-middle-class patrons and their urban values of status, leisure, and consumption confronted,...

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Wisteria House :life in a New England home, 1839-2000 /Susan J. Montgomery.

xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, "Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839-2000 tells the story of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence,...

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The most costly journey :stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists /edited by Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Teresa Mares, Andy Kolovos.

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that emplo...

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Craft :an American history /Glenn Adamson.

387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher., Examine any phase of our nation's struggle...

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Gund Partnership /introduction by Paul Goldberger ; [edited by Christa Mahar].

288 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm, "This book details the Modern architectural work of American architectual firm Gund Partnership between the years of 1994 and 2007. The principal of the firm is Graham Gund, a well known and respected American architect working in the Modernist traditi...

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Yale University Art Gallery bulletin.

volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

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The Big Dig at night /by Dan McNichol ; photographs by Stephen SetteDucati.

127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Spectacular photographs of Boston's Big Dig at night--and an inside account of what goes on while the city sleeps."

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American passage :the communications frontier in early New England /Katherine Grandjean.

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of l...

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Buried in shades of night :contested voices, Indian captivity, and the legacy of King Philip's war /Billy J. Stratton ; foreword by Frances Washburn ; afterword by George E. Tinker.

xvi, 203 pages ; 24 cm, "Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase M...

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Brethren by nature :New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery /Margaret Ellen Newell.

xi, 316 pages ; 25 cm, "In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shap...

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A storm of witchcraft :the Salem trials and the American experience /Emerson W. Baker.

xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort thei...

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Unfreedom :slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston /Jared Ross Hardesty.

xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of ...

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Paths, tracks, and trails :designing for pedestrians and cyclists /edited by Paolo Ceccon & Laura Zampieri.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm, Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growing demand for the construction of pedestrian and cyclist paths internationally, and i...

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Green space in the community /edited by Steffan Robel.

248 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "Public Green Space in the Community refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important...

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American ceramics now /Twenty-seventh Ceramic National Exhibition ; [editor of catalogue, Thomas Piché, Jr.].

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

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Creations in clay :contemporary New England ceramics /[foreword by Susan Strickler ; introduction by Gillian Nagler ; essay by Gerry Williams.

40 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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A spectacle in motion :the grand panorama of a whaling voyage 'round the world.

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 28 cm, "This two-volume publication dives into the detail and narrative of the Panorama and allows people to quite literally hold the entire artwork in the palm of their hands. A maritime artwork of national historical importance, the Panorama is a fi...

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American furniture 2018 /edited by Luke Beckerdite.

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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The Newport experience :sustaining historic preservation into the 21st century /Jeannine Falino ; foreword by Denis de Kergorlay, afterword by Trudy Coxe, edited by Terry Dickinson, Lise Dube-Scherr, Katherine Garrett-Cox, and Gary Ruff.

xx, 162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm, "Preserving historic houses. Preserving Colonial-era Georgian to Gilded Age mansions. History of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 75 years. Conservation of American architecture, decorative arts and landscape...

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Pin

Wooden pin used for pinning the wooden timbers together of the Rocks bridge over the Merrimac River near Haverhill, Mass. Cylindrical oak pins of substantial dimensions.

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Pin

Wooden pin used for pinning the wooden timbers together of the Rocks bridge over the Merrimack River near Haverhill, Mass. Cylindrical oak pins of substantial dimensions.

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Pin

Wooden pin used for pinning the wooden timbers together of the Rocks bridge over the Merrimack River near Haverhill, Mass. Cylindrical oak pins of substantial dimensions.

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Base Column

Hexagonal base of a column; grey paint. Almost certainly the base for columns .390 or .391.1.

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Screw

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Cornice

Fragment of cap, missing dentils, painted yellow.

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Architrave

B: Lintel. Three part profile; mitered both ends; painted cream. C, D: Two side pieces. Painted white. Two flat inner sections separated by a cove. Flattened ogee outer molding with narrow cove moldings on either side of it.

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Half Baluster

Rather squat urn-shaped roof half baluster; traces of white paint.

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Baluster

Possibly exterior; painted white; bevel on both ends. Turned spiral; cut nails.

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Window Frame

Mortise-and-tenon window frame painted bright green over white; cap has quarter-round trim under (hood); fixed upper sash.

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Window Frame

Molded window frame piece; one end mitered and one with a tenon.

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Window Frame

Top and two sides of a casement window.

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Shingle

Shingle, now in two pieces.

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Brick

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Brick

Brick

Balustrade

Section of wood balustrade with two types of balusters: iron rods alternate between the balusters; top rail is too narrow for all baluster tops; stained or varnished. Original to the John Hancock House, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hatbox

Top hat shape; light brown leather in fragile condition; band of leather missing; brass lock; padded interior lined with blue and white striped chintz; leather handle and strap are missing.

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Top hat

Grey; molded; beige and cream grosgrain ribbon around base of crown and around lip of brim; lined with leather.

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Smoking Cap

Black velvet w/ jet & glass beads in floral arrangement; designs are large for hat - one on top, 5 around side; lined w/ azure silk; crown has support/lining.

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Pith Helmet Hatbox with Cover

White box and cover; paper circular hat support inside.

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Top hat

Gray; with beige and cream colored grosgrain ribbon around brim and base of crown with knot at base of crown; leather and paper lining; holes at top for ventilation.

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DERBY

Dark brown straw; brown/green ribbon (1-1/2" w.) at base of crown & on edge of brim; leather band liner.

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HAT

Straw; soft brim w/ brown ribbon around brim/base of crown; walking hat.