Historic New England

Bi-centenary of the burning of Providence in 1676. Defence of the Rhode Island system of treatment of the Indians, and of civil and religious liberty. An address delivered before the Rhode Island historical society, April 10th, 1876, by Zachariah Allen, LL. D.

34 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Allen, Zachariah, 1795-1882.

GUSN: 150595

Call Number: Stacks E78.R4 A4

Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre.

63, [1] p. : ill., col. pl., facsims., map. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1910.

Creators: Barker, Henry Ames, 1866-1929.

GUSN: 150596

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 B27

The Providence oath of allegiance and its signers, 1651-2 / by Richard Le Baron Bowen.

x, 92 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Bowen, Richard LeBaron.

GUSN: 150597

Call Number: Stacks F82.B67

The civic and architectural development of Providence, 1636-1950.

320 p. illus., maps. 29 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Cady, John Hutchins, 1881-

GUSN: 150598

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 C143

Providence in colonial times. With an introduction by J. Franklin Jameson.

xix, 392 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910.

GUSN: 150599

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 K49 1912

Official chronicle and tribute book of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ... / compiled by L.H. Wheeler.

159 p. : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Wheeler, Lucia Hammond. Providence (R.I.). Tercentenary Commission.

GUSN: 150600

Call Number: Stacks F79.P956

Annual Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. ... / Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners.

v. : ill. ; 23-28 cm.

Creators: Rhode Island. Metropolitan Park Commission.

GUSN: 150601

Call Number: Stacks SB482.R4 B6 1906 (and 3 more)

The meeting house of the First Baptist church in Providence; a history of the fabric, by Norman M. Isham. Issued by the Charitable Baptist Society on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the house, May twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and seventy-five.

xiii, 33 p. illus., plates, plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864- Charitable Baptist Society.

GUSN: 150602

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 I7

Historical catalogue of the members of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island / compiled and edited by Henry Melville King, with the valuable aid of Charles Field Wilcox.

189 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: King, Henry Melville. Wilcox, Charles Field, 1844 or 5-1905.

GUSN: 150603

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 P93

Historical catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1904.

xii, 896 p. 25 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Vaughan, Mary Drew, ed. Brown University.

GUSN: 150604

Call Number: Stacks LD635.5 1905

The pageant of Benefit street down through the years, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, illustrated by the author.

7 p. l., 17-143, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1945.

Creators: Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, 1887-

GUSN: 150605

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 S82

History of the town of Smithfield [R.I.] from its organization, in 1730-1, to its division, in 1871, comp. in accordance with the votes of the towns of Smithfield, North Smithfield, Lincoln and Woonsocket, R.I., by Thomas Steere.

8 p. ¾., 230 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Steere, Thomas.

GUSN: 150606

Call Number: Stacks F89.S6 S8

A farther brief and true narration of the great swamp fight in the Narragansett country, December 19, 1675 / written a few days later, and first printed at London in February, 1676 ; now reproduced for the honour of those who won and lost, and for the instruction and edification of a later generation met to commemorate those of their own blood who fought on that or other days, in a general convention of the Society of Colonial Wars held at Providence on May 17 & 18, 1912.

12 p. : facsim. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1912]

Creators: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150607

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.F29

Proceedings at the dedication of a tablet to the memory of Major Samuel Appleton, November 3, 1916.

25 p. 2 pl. (incl. front.) 24 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Rhode Island Historical Society.

GUSN: 150608

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.A49

A record of the ceremony and oration on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument commemorating the Great Swamp fight, December 19, 1675, in the Narragansett country, Rhode Island; erected by the societies of colonial wars of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, October 20, 1906.

68 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1855-1918, comp. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

GUSN: 150609

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.S67

Early houses of the King's province, in the Narragansett country, by William Davis Miller, with drawings by Norman Morrison Isham.

(6), 33-[34], (1) p. illus. 18.5 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Miller, William Davis, 1887- Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864- illus. Private Presses - Merrymount Press.

GUSN: 150610

Call Number: Stacks F82.M66

200th anniversary of Warren, Rhode Island : historical sketch, 1747-1947 / by Henry J. Peck.

111 p. : frontis., ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1947.

Creators: Peck, Henry J.

GUSN: 150611

Call Number: Stacks F89.W19 P4

Successful Vermonters; a modern gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties, containing an historical review of the several towns and a series of biographical sketches ... by William H. Jeffrey.

1 p.l., xii, [2], [5]-361, 158, 274 p. illus., ports. 26 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Jeffrey, William H. (William Hartley), b. 1867.

GUSN: 150612

Call Number: Ref. F48.J46

Always in season : folk art and traditional culture in Vermont / edited by Jane C. Beck.

144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 23 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Beck, Jane C., 1941- Vermont Council on the Arts. Vermont Historical Society Museum.

GUSN: 150613

Call Number: Stacks NK835.V5 A48 1982

Vermont landscape images, 1776-1976 / William C. Lipke and Philip N. Grime, editors.

119 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Lipke, William C. Grime, Philip N. Robert Hull Fleming Museum.

GUSN: 150614

Call Number: Stacks F50.V47 (and 1 more)

Letters of life / by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.

3 p. ¾. [3]-414 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1866.

Creators: Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

GUSN: 150615

Call Number: Stacks PS2833.A3 1866

Correspondence of William Shirley :bbgovernor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760 / edited under the auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, by Charles Henry Lincoln ...

2 v. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Shirley, William, 1694-1771. Lincoln, Charles Henry, 1869-1938. Massachusetts. Governor. 1741-1757 (William Shirley) National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

GUSN: 150616

Call Number: Stacks E195.S55 vol.1 (and 1 more)

John Cotton Smith papers : papers of John Cotton Smith while Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor, and Governor of the State of Connecticut.

5 v. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1948-1967.

Creators: Smith, John Cotton, 1765-1845. Connecticut. Governor (1812-1817 : Smith)

GUSN: 150617

Call Number: Stacks F99.S76 vol.1 (and 4 more)

Warren-Adams letters : being chiefly a correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814.

382 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1917-25.

Creators: Adams, John, 1735-1826. Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803. Warren, James, 1726-1808. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 150618

Call Number: Stacks F61.M41 vol.1

Class memoir of George Washington Warren, with English and American ancestry, by his classmate Thomas C. Amory. Together with letters, valedictory poem, odes, etc.

1 p., ¾., [5]-122 p. illus. (coat of arms) 3 port. (incl. front.) 24 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Amory, Thomas C. (Thomas Coffin), 1812-1889.

GUSN: 150619

Call Number: Stacks CT275.W294 A7 c.1 (and 1 more)

English heraldry / by Charles Boutell ; with four hundred and fifty illustrations drawn and engraved on wood by R.B. Utting.

xix, 347 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1871.

Creators: Boutell, Charles, 1812-1877.

GUSN: 150620

Call Number: Stacks CR1612.B8 1871

Heraldry in England.

35 p. : 15 col. plates ; 18 cm.

Date: [1953]

Creators: Wagner, Anthony Richard, Sir, 1908-

GUSN: 150621

Call Number: Stacks CR1602 W3

Modern manuscripts : a practical manual for their management, care, and use / Kenneth W. Duckett.

xvi, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: Duckett, Kenneth W. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 150622

Call Number: Ref. CD950.D8

Conservation of metal antiquities, collective work / translated from Polish by Jerzy Dlutek [and others]

247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Malinowski, Kazimierz. Dlutek, Jerzy, tr.

GUSN: 150623

Call Number: Stacks NA8560.M35 1969

Dating methods in archaeology [by] Joseph W. Michels.

xiv, 230 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Michels, Joseph W.

GUSN: 150624

Call Number: Stacks CC75.M5

Care and repair of antiques / by Thomas H. Ormsbee.

168 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1949.

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

GUSN: 150625

Call Number: Stacks NK1125.O69 1949

A handbook of conservation, with special reference to the landscape features in Essex County : a directory to channels and agencies for restoration and conservation of natural and historical features.

84 p. : ill., 1 folded map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Society for the Preservation of the Landscape Features of Essex County, Massachusetts.

GUSN: 150626

Call Number: Stacks S932.M3 S7

The conservation of antiquities and works of art : treatment, repair, and restoration.

xv, 373 p. : ill., tables ; 25 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Plenderleith, Harold James, 1898-

GUSN: 150627

Call Number: Coll N8560.P55 1956

The arts in found places : a report from Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts.

138 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Educational Facilities Laboratories. National Endowment for the Arts.

GUSN: 150628

Call Number: Stacks NX800.E32

Caring for photographs : display, storage, restoration / by the editors of Time-Life Books.

192 p. : ill. (part col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Time-Life Books.

GUSN: 150629

Call Number: Stacks TR465.T55

Collection, use, and care of historical photographs / Robert A. Weinstein and Larry Booth.

222 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Weinstein, Robert A. Booth, Larry.

GUSN: 150630

Call Number: 85M Ref. TR465.W44

Furniture care and conservation / Robert F. McGiffin, Jr. ; foreword by Caroline K. Keck.

xvii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: McGiffin, Robert F., 1942-

GUSN: 150631

Call Number: Stacks TT199.M4 1983 c.1 (and 2 more)

How to restore antique furniture / [by] M. Campbell Lorini and Henry Lionel Williams.

214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [c1949]

Creators: Lorini, M. Campbell. Williams, Henry Lionel.

GUSN: 150632

Call Number: Stacks TT199.L6 1949

Pictures, their preservation and restoration.

270 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: [1959]

Creators: Clarke, Carl Dame, 1904-

GUSN: 150633

Call Number: Stacks ND1640.C55

Metals in America's historic buildings.

v, 170 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Gayle, Margot. Historical survey of metals. Waite, John G. Deterioration and methods of preserving.

GUSN: 150634

Call Number: Stacks NA3940.M47 (and 1 more)

The Salem handbook : a renovation guide for homeowners / prepared by Anderson Notter Associates Inc., Historic Salem Incorporated ; [photography, layout, and ill., Cynthia O. Howard].

113 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Anderson Notter Associates. Historic Salem Incorporated.

GUSN: 150635

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.A53 1977

The restoration manual; an illustrated guide to the preservation and restoration of old buildings, by Orin M. Bullock, Jr. Drawings by the author unless otherwise credited. Written for the Committee on Historic Buildings of the American Institute of Architects. With a foreword by Morris Ketchum, Jr.

181 p. illus., plans. 26 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Bullock, Orin M. American Institute of Architects. Committee on Historic Buildings.

GUSN: 150636

Call Number: Stacks NA705.B77 1966 c.1 (and 1 more)

Cyclical maintenance for historic buildings / J. Henry Chambers.

125 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Chambers, J. Henry, 1921- United States. Interagency Historic Architectural Services Program.

GUSN: 150637

Call Number: Stacks TH3361.C46 1976 (and 1 more)

The care of old buildings today: a practical guide [by] Donald W. Insall.

197 p. illus., plans. 22 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Insall, Donald W. (Donald William)

GUSN: 150638

Call Number: Stacks NA105.I57

The impecunious house restorer : personal vision & historic accuracy / John T. Kirk.

xvi, 204 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 150639

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.K57 1984 c.1 (and 2 more)

Living with old houses / a publication of the Advisory Service of Greater Portland Landmarks.

105p. : ill. ; 28cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc. Advisory Service.

GUSN: 150640

Call Number: Stacks NA2840.P67

Repair of ancient buildings, by A. R. Powys.

xvi, 208 p. front., illus., plates. 20 cm.

Date: [1929]

Creators: Powys, Albert Reginald, 1881-1936. Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (London, England)

GUSN: 150641

Call Number: Stacks NA105.P6

Notes on the repair of ancient buildings / issued by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

75 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (London, England)

GUSN: 150642

Call Number: Stacks NA105.N67 1903

Small country houses ; their repair and enlargement ; forty examples chosen from five centuries [by] Lawrence Weaver.

xxxii, 204 p. illus., plates, mounted col. front. 29 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-

GUSN: 150643

Call Number: Stacks NA7562.W5

Old American houses : how to restore, remodel, and reproduce them / [by] Henry Lionel Williams & Ottalie K. Williams. Drawings and photos. by the authors except where noted.

190 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Williams, Henry Lionel, b. 1894 Williams, Ottalie Kroeber, 1901-

GUSN: 150644

Call Number: Stacks NA7206.W5

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