Historic New England

American sewn rugs :their history with exceptional examples /Jan Whitlock ; with Tracy Jamar.

113 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Whitlock, Jan. Jamar, Tracy.

GUSN: 303595

Call Number: Coll. NK2812.W45 2012

Poetry to the earth :the arts & crafts movement in Deerfield /Suzanne L. Flynt ; foreword by Wendy Kaplan.

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Creators: Flynt, Suzanne L., author. Kaplan, Wendy, writer of supplementary textual content.

GUSN: 303596

Call Number: Coll. NK1411.D44 F59 2012 c.1 (and 1 more)

Early American silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art /Beth Carver Wees, with Medill Higgins Harvey.

xi, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2013.

Creators: Wees, Beth Carver. Harvey, Medill Higgins. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 303597

Call Number: Coll. NK7112.M48 2013

Barns of Connecticut /Markham Starr.

156 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm., "The book discusses the importance of barns, past and present, to agriculture across our state and offers a lovely introduction to the architectural and functional roles these structures played in early Connecticut. (...) From the earliest colonial structur...

Creators: Starr, Markham.

GUSN: 303598

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.S73 2013

Architecture & academe :college buildings in New England before 1860 /Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

xxi, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

GUSN: 303599

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA6603.T65 2011

A picture history of New Bedford /edited by Joseph D. Thomas, Alfred H. Saulniers, Natalie A. White, Marsha L. McCabe, Jay Avila.

volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Thomas, Joseph D., editor.

GUSN: 303600

Call Number: Stacks F74.N5 P53 2013 v.1

Capricious fancy :draping and curtaining the historic interior, 1800-1930 /Gail Caskey Winkler ; foreword by Roger W. Moss.

xliii, 292 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Winkler, Gail Caskey.

GUSN: 303601

Call Number: Coll. NK3212.W56 2013

Art of Katahdin :the mountain, the range, the region /David Little ; edited by Carl Little.

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 x 30 cm

Creators: Little, David, 1951- Little, Carl.

GUSN: 303602

Call Number: Stacks N8214.5.U6 L58 2013 (and 1 more)

Mount Auburn Cemetery :beauty on the edge of eternity /photographs by Richard Cheek ; foreword by David P. Barnett, introduction by William C. Clendaniel, text by Janet Heywood.

161 p. : chiefly col ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Cheek, Richard. Heywood, Janet Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery

GUSN: 303603

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.61.M8 F74 2012

THREE CENTURIES IN A CAPE COD VILLAGE :the Story of Chatham /Chatham Historical Society, Chatham, Massachusetts ; Dana Eldridge, Mary Ann Gray, Lynn C. Van Dine, Spencer Grey, Debra Lawless, Tim Weller, Eric Hartell.

184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Creators: Eldridge, Dana. Chatham Historical Society (Chatham, Mass.)

GUSN: 303604

Call Number: Stacks F74.C43 T48 2012

At Home in New England :Royal Barry Wills Architects 1925 to Present /Richard Wills with Keith Orlesky.

191 pages : colored illustrations

Creators: Wills, Richard, 1926-

GUSN: 303721

Call Number: Rare NA737.R69 A4 2014 (and 1 more)

Our own snug fireside :images of the New England home, 1760-1860 /Jane C. Nylander. [paperback]

xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938-

GUSN: 304346

Call Number: Stacks F8.N95 1994

The logbooks :Connecticut's slave ships and human memory /Anne Farrow.

xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Creators: Farrow, Anne, author.

GUSN: 304347

Call Number: Stacks E445.C7 F37 2014 C. 1 (and 1 more)

A crisis of community :the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848 /Mary Babson Fuhrer.

xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed...

Creators: Fuhrer, Mary Babson.

GUSN: 304348

Call Number: Stacks F74.B56 F85 2014 (and 1 more)

Attack on Orleans :the World War I submarine raid on Cape Cod /Jake Klim.

126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Klim, Jake.

GUSN: 304349

Call Number: Stacks D570.85.M41 O745 2014

Second nature :an environmental history of New England /Richard W. Judd.

xi, 327 pages ; 23 cm.

Creators: Judd, Richard William.

GUSN: 304350

Call Number: Stacks GF504.N45 J84 2014 c.1 (and 1 more)

Drawing toward home :designs for domestic architecture from historic New England /James F. O'Gorman, editor ; with Lorna Condon ... [et al.].

240 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: O'Gorman, James F. Condon, Lorna.

GUSN: 304514

Call Number: Ref. NA2706.U6 D69 2010 (and 1 more)

Instantaneous marine studies /taken by David Mason Little.

[20] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Date: 1883.

Creators: Little, David Mason.

GUSN: 305661

Call Number: Rare VM307.L7 1883

The Colonial Theatre :a Pittsfield resurrection /photographs by Nicholas Whitman ; with contributing essays by David Fleming [et al.].

137 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), port. ; 24 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Whitman, Nicholas, 1954- Fleming, David W., 1950-

GUSN: 305662

Call Number: Stacks NA6835.P58 C65 2008

Textiles :fiber to fabric /[by M. D. Potter and B. P. Corbman].

508 p. ; 8 vo.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Potter, M. David. Corbman, Bernard P.

GUSN: 305663

Call Number: Stacks TS1446.P6 1967

Around Swanzey :Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwilliam, and Hinsdale /Pamela Apkarian-Russell.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Nestled against the Massachusetts and Vermont borders are six New Hampshire communities largely unconnected with the rest of their home state. The picturesque bedroom and summer vacation communities of Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwil...

Date: 1996.

Creators: Apkarian-Russell, Pamela.

GUSN: 305664

Call Number: Stacks F44.S97 A65 1996

Childe Hassam :At Dusk, Boston Common at Twilight /Erica E. Hirshler.

74 pages : illustrations (some color), plan, portrait, 21 cm

Creators: Hirshler, Erica E. Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 311082

Call Number: Coll. ND237.H345 A68 2015

Boston in the golden age of spiritualism :séances, mediums & immortality /Dee Morris.

126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Morris, Dee.

GUSN: 311083

Call Number: Stacks BF1261.2.M67 2014

Charles J. Connick :his education and his windows in and near Pittsburgh /Albert M. Tannler.

xii, 164 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Tannler, Albert M.

GUSN: 311084

Call Number: Coll. NK5398.C66 T36 2008

Drawn with spirit :Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection /Lisa Minardi ; with an interview by Ann Percy.

ix, 363 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, Among the most beloved forms of American folk art, fraktur is a Germanic tradition of decorated manuscripts and printed documents noted for its use of bold colors and whimsical motifs. This publication makes a landmark contribution to the study ...

Creators: Minardi, Lisa, 1983- author. Percy, Ann, interviewer. Philadelphia Museum of Art,

GUSN: 311085

Call Number: Coll. ND3035.P4 M56 2015

American decoration :a sense of place /Thomas Jayne.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, Interior designer and decorative arts and antiques expert Thomas Jayne follows up his essential 2010 compendium "The Finest Rooms in America" with this new collection of his own work. Thomas Jayne possesses a unique dual vision--he keeps one eye focused on th...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Jayne, Thomas.

GUSN: 311086

Call Number: Coll. NK2004.3.J39 A4 2012 (and 1 more)

Saint-Mémin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America /Ellen G. Miles ; edited by Dru Dowdy.

xxxii, 461 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Date: 1994.

Creators: Miles, Ellen Gross, 1941- Dowdy, Dru.

GUSN: 311087

Call Number: Coll. NE650.S33 A4 1994

Marimekko :fashion and design /[Marianne Aav, Ronald T. Labaco ; editors: Marianne Aav, Harri Kivilinna ; translation: John Arnold].

79 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Aav, Marianne. Labaco, Ronald T. Kivilinna, Harri. Marimekko Oy. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture.

GUSN: 311088

Call Number: Coll. TS1475.M38 2010

Wallpaper in Ireland 1700-1900 /David Skinner.

214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Creators: Skinner, David, author.

GUSN: 311089

Call Number: Coll. NK3446.S55 2014

Women of steel and stone :22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers /Anna M. Lewis.

264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set against the backdr...

Creators: Lewis, Anna M.

GUSN: 311090

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1997.L49 2014

Rogues & saints, blizzards & mud :a firsthand recollection of life in early America /by James Fordyce Manter (1798-1891).

79 pages : portraits ; 21 cm

Date: 1996.

Creators: Manter, James Fordyce.

GUSN: 311091

Call Number: Stacks CS71.M36 1996

Moving rooms /John Harris.

xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm, "This book documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called 'Period Rooms' became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade. Much appreciated by museum visitors, period rooms have become somet...

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Harris, John, 1931-

GUSN: 313527

Call Number: Stacks NK1860.H37 2007

Albion's seed :four British folkways in America /by David Hackett Fischer.

xxi, 946 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., Discusses the transplanting of British folkways to America during four waves of immigration between 1629 and 1775.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

GUSN: 313528

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.F539 1989

The paintings of John Calvin Stevens /by Paul S. Stevens, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

48 pages : illustrations

Date: 2015.

Creators: Stevens, Paul S. Stevens, John Calvin. Shellteworth, Earle G., Jr.

GUSN: 313529

Call Number: Coll. ND1140.S643 S74 2015

The Hitchcock family :including the principal lines Blakely, Mulhern, Porter, Sinclair and Suitsby Lauren Blakely Hitchcock.

188 pages

Date: 1961.

Creators: Hitchcock, Lauren Blakely.

GUSN: 313530

Call Number: Stacks CS2391.H583

Book of common prayer, according to the use of King's chapel, Boston.

xii, 407 pages 26 cm

Date: 1850.

Creators: Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pitt), 1797-1843, editor. King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 313531

Call Number: Rare BX5943.A4 B6 1850

Amelia Peabody /by Linda Smith Rhoads for the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund.

36, [4] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Rhoads, Linda Smith. Otto, Julie Helen. Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund.

GUSN: 313763

Call Number: Stacks HV28.P38 R44 1998

Improved pruning and training of fruit trees;or, extension versus restriction,by John Simpson.

xii, 115 pages, illustrations

Date: [1880]

Creators: Simpson, John.

GUSN: 313764

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB356.S567 1803

A book of joys :the story of a New England summer /by Lucy Fitch Perkins ; with illustrations in color by the author.

212 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1907.

Creators: Perkins, Lucy Fitch, 1865-1937.

GUSN: 313765

Call Number: Stacks F9.P44

The chemistry of cooking and cleaning ;a manual for house keepers[by] Ellen H. Richards [and] S. Maria Elliott.

vi pages, 1 leaf, 186 pages 18 cm

Date: 1914.

Creators: Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911. Elliott, S. Maria (Sophronia Maria), 1854- author.

GUSN: 313766

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX531.R53 1914

American furniture of the colonial and early federal periods, together with Queen Anne and Georgian furniture, fine English porcelains and other decorations :the superb collection belonging to the estate of the late Francis Shaw of Wayland, Mass.

164 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1935.

Creators: Packer, Charles. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

GUSN: 313767

Call Number: Coll. NK2265.A4

Food ; what it is and does,by Edith Greer.

vii, 251 pages illustrations, plates, diagrams 19 cm.

Date: [Ã1915]

Creators: Greer, Edith.

GUSN: 313768

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX353.G7 1915

How to use color and decorating designs in the home.

251 pages illustrations (some color) 26 cm

Date: [1949]

Creators: Ketcham, Howard, 1902-1982.

GUSN: 313769

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.K48

North Haven summers :an oral history /by Eleanor Motley Richardson ; with a foreword by Herbert Parsons Jr.

256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Date: 1992.

Creators: Richardson, Eleanor Motley.

GUSN: 313770

Call Number: Stacks F29.N68 R5

The cutting edge :50 years of British fashion, 1947-1997 /edited by Amy De La Haye.

208 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1997.

Creators: De La Haye, Amy.

GUSN: 313771

Call Number: Coll. GT738.C87 1997

Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts :an illustrated history of the property (including Abbot Academy) /by Robert Domingue.

iv, 198 pages : illustrations

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Domingue, Robert A.

GUSN: 313773

Call Number: Stacks LD7501.A5 D66 1990

Legendary locals of East Boston, Massachusetts /Regina Marchi.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Creators: Marchi, Regina M., 1965-

GUSN: 314846

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.E2 M37 2015

Breaking ground :Henry B. Hoover, New England modern architect /Lucretia Hoover Giese and Henry B. Hoover Jr.

xx, 142 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Giese, Lucretia H., author. Hoover, Henry B., Jr., author.

GUSN: 314847

Call Number: Rare NA737.H615 G54 2015

Heroic :concrete architecture and the new Boston /editors, Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley.

335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Creators: Pasnik, Mark, editor. Kubo, Michael, editor. Grimley, Chris, editor.

GUSN: 314848

Call Number: Stacks NA735.B7 H47 2015

Boston's cycling craze, 1880-1900 :a story of race, sport, and society /Lorenz J. Finison.

xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Finison, Lorenz J. (Lorenz John), 1941-

GUSN: 314849

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV1045.5.M42 B673 2014

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