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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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Loud, naked & in three colors :the Liberty boys & the history of tattooing in Boston /Derin Bray, Margaret Hodges.

160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

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The Library of Congress :the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building /edited by John Y. Cole and Henry Hope Reed ; with essays by John Y. Cole [and others] ; preface by Arthur Ross ; foreword by James H. Billington ; introductions by Daniel Boorstin and Brendan Gill ; principal photography by Anne Day.

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (now known as the Jefferson Building) reached its 100th anniversary in 1997 after an eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its origi...

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The architects' and builders' hand-book.

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Floating west :antique Japanese tattoo flash from the collection of Nick York /by Nick York.

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Walter Gropius :an illustrated biography /Leyla Daybelge, Magnus Englund.

319 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm

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Planning your home wisely! /by Royal Barry Wills.

95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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Lost examples of colonial architecture :buildings that have disappeared or been so altered as to be denatured /by John Mead Howells ; with an introduction by Fiske Kimball.

260 pages, 244 pages of plates : illustrations 28 cm

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The life and letters of George Bancroft,by M.A. De Wolfe Howe ...

2 volumes 6 portraits (including frontispieces) 22 cm, George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he...

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Candle days;the story of early American arts and implements,by Marion Nicholl Rawson.

xvi, 307 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm

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Little gardens for boys and girls,by Myrta Margaret Higgins.

vii, 152 pages illustrations, plates 20 cm

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Lost Springfield, Massachusetts /Derek Strahan.

158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "At the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Armory opened in Springfield, spurring rapid growth. With that golden age of progress came iconic buildings and landmarks that are now lost to time. Railroads brought workers eager to fill Springfield's factories and ...

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A memorial of the life and benefactions of Mary Hemenway, 1820-1894.

[10], 74 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

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Countering illicit traffic in cultural goods :the global challenge of protecting the world's heritage /edited by France Desmarais.

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Building Stata :the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT /Nancy E. Joyce ; commentary by Frank O. Gehry ; photographs by Richard M. Sobol.

xxi, 137 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 x 28 cm, "This illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the in...

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Rough point :the Newport home of Doris Duke /written by A. Bruce MacLeish and Pieter N. Roos.

52 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

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Bibliotheca Salmo salar :a selection of rare books, manuscripts, journals, diaries, photograph albums, & ephemera on the subject of Atlantic salmon fishing /from the collection of Charles B. Wood III.

242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

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Houses for good living,by Royal Barry Wills.

104 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) 32 cm

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Architecture of the Old South.Georgia /Mills Lane ; special photography by Van Jones Martin ; drawings by Gene Carpenter.

252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

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

447 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm

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

359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...