Historic New England

Havasupai baskets and their makers, 1930-1940 /by Barbara and Edwin McKee and Joyce Herold ; basket photos. by E. Tad Nichols.

xvii, 142 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: McKee, Barbara. McKee, Edwin D. (Edwin Dinwiddie), 1906-1984, joint author. Herold, Joyce, joint author.

GUSN: 290060

Call Number: Coll. E99.H3 M32

Indian basket weaving :how to weave Pomo, Yurok, Pima, and Navajo baskets /by Sandra Corrie Newman.

xvi, 91 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., Discusses the history, uses, materials, making and designing of baskets by many Indian tribes.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Newman, Sandra Corrie.

GUSN: 290061

Call Number: Coll. E98.B3 N48 1974

The brave escape of Edith Wharton :a biography /by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge.

184 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm., This book examines the life and career of the American author, Edith Wharton.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm.

GUSN: 291017

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS3545.H16 Z943 2010

The finest rooms in America :fifty influential interiors from the eighteenth century to the present /Thomas Jayne with Anne Walker.

207 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm., "The book brings together a cross section of houses and apartments representing a diverse range of American periods and styles. Starting with Mount Vernon and Monticello, the presentation continues with important extant rooms from the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries ...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Jayne, Thomas. Walker, Anne.

GUSN: 291018

Call Number: Stacks NK2002.J39 2010

Twilight at Conner Prairie :the creation, betrayal, and rescue of a museum /Berkley W. Duck III.

xiii, 220 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Duck, Berkley W., 1938-

GUSN: 291019

Call Number: Stacks F523.D83 2011

McCoy 2008 :a celebration of the Presidential button from 1840 to 2008.

221 p. : col. ill. ; 15 x 15 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Sappi Fine Paper North America.

GUSN: 291020

Call Number: Stacks E183.3.M35 2007

The Boston jazz chronicles :faces, places, and nightlife, 1937-1962 /Richard Vacca.

xvi, 335 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Vacca, Richard.

GUSN: 291021

Call Number: Stacks ML3508.8.B67 V33 2012

Brooklyn's Plymouth Church in the Civil War era :a ministry of freedom /Frank Decker assisted by Lois Rosebrooks.

156 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "Discover the fascinating story of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn and its unique place in Civil War history"-- Provided by publisher., "The history of the Plymouth Church of Brooklyn before, during, and after the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Decker, Francis K.

GUSN: 291022

Call Number: Stacks BX7255.B8 D43 2013

Wearable prints, 1760-1860 :history, materials, and mechanics /Susan W. Greene.

xv, 568 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Greene, Susan W., 1942-

GUSN: 291023

Call Number: 85M Stacks TS1767.G74 2014

Why the turkey didn't fly /by Paul Aron.

93 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Creators: Aron, Paul, 1956- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,

GUSN: 291024

Call Number: Stacks JC346.A76 2013

Historic house museums as witnesses of national and local identities :acts of the Third Annual DEMHIST Conference, Amsterdam, 14-16 October, 2002 /Rosanna Pavoni, editor.

176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Pavoni, Rosanna, 1953- International Committee DEMHIST. Conference (3rd : 2002 : Amsterdam) International Council of Museums.

GUSN: 291025

Call Number: Stacks CC135.I58 2002

Winchester Hospital :our first century /by Ellen Knight.

167 p. : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Knight, Ellen.

GUSN: 291026

Call Number: Stacks F74 .W56 W56 2011

Early New England interiors :sketches in Salem, Marblehead, Portsmouth and Kittery /by Arthur Little.Historic New England reprint.

45 ill. 28 x 36 cm.

Date: 2014.

Creators: Little, Arthur, 1852-1925. Historic New England (Organization)

GUSN: 291027

Call Number: Stacks NA707.L7 2014 c.1 (and 1 more)

Pembroke :ancient trails to the 21st century, 1712-2012 /Pembroke 300th Anniversary Committee.

468 p. 24 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Pembroke 300th Anniversary Committee (Pembroke, Mass.)

GUSN: 291028

Call Number: Stacks F74 .P46 P46 2012

A journey through Woodstock, 1686-2011 /Cheryl R. Wakely.

vii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm.

Date: c2011

Creators: Wakely, Cheryl R., 1950- Woodstock Historical Society (Woodstock, Conn.)

GUSN: 291029

Call Number: 85M Stacks F104.W9 W35 2011

Toile :the storied fabrics of Europe and America /Michele Palmer ; Lori Beth Garris, photographer.

176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Palmer, Michele. Garris, Lori Beth.

GUSN: 291206

Call Number: Coll. NK9500.P35 2003

Memoir of the life of Eliza S. M. Quincy.

3 p. l., [5]-267 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1861.

Creators: Quincy, Eliza Susan Morton, 1773-1850. Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884.

GUSN: 291618

Call Number: Coll. E302.6.Q7 Q74

Cape Cod Canal /Timothy T. Orwig for Historic New England.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Orwig, Timothy T., author.

GUSN: 292097

Call Number: Stacks F72 .C3 O79 2013 c.1 (and 1 more)

American genre painting in the Victorian era :Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their contemporaries. [Exhibition] April 8-May 6, 1978.

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

Date: 1978.

Creators: Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 293224

Call Number: Roth/Coll. ND1451.5.H4 1978

Teacher, scholar, mentor: Dr. Harry Reiff of St. Lawrence University.

1 v. : ill., facsims., maps, port. ; 27 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Reiff, Daniel D. (Daniel Drake)

GUSN: 293341

Call Number: Stacks CT3990 .R45 R45 2013

More small Italian villas and farmhouses , by Guy Lowell.

5 p. l., xiv p., illus., 40 pl. (incl. front.) 42 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 294239

Call Number: Ovr. NA7594.L62

Smaller Italian villas and farmhouses , by Guy Lowell, illustrated by photographs and sketches made by the author and others.

6 p. l., xii l. illus., 125 pl. (incl. front., plans) 42 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 294240

Call Number: Ovr. NA7594.L6

College Hill :a demonstration study of historic area renewal /conducted by the Providence City Plan Commission in cooperation with the Providence Preservation Society and the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

x, 230 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1967.

Creators: Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission. Providence Preservation Society. United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

GUSN: 294241

Call Number: Stacks NA9127.P9 P7 1967

College Hill,a demonstration study of historic area renewal.Conducted in cooperation with the Providence Preservation Society and the Housing and Home Finance Agency.

ix, 213 p. illus. (part col.) plans (part col., 2 fold.) 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1959]

Creators: Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission.

GUSN: 294242

Call Number: Stacks NA9127.P9 A5 1959

Interface: Providence /Interface: Providence Design Team, Rhode Island School of Design.

155 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Rhode Island School of Design. Interface: Providence Design Team.

GUSN: 294243

Call Number: Stacks HT177.P9 R7

Needle and brush: useful and decorative.[By John Q. Reed and Eliza M. Lavin].

306 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Reed, John Q. Lavin, Eliza M., joint author.

GUSN: 294244

Call Number: Rare TT750.R32 1889

Wickford memories / by Anita W. Hinckley.

118 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Hinckley, Anita W., 1884-

GUSN: 294245

Call Number: Stacks CT275.H59944 A3

Performing anti-slavery :activist women on antebellum stages /Gay Gibson Cima.

xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm, "In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, revising the history of abolition, and illuminating an affect...

Creators: Cima, Gay Gibson, 1948- author.

GUSN: 294254

Call Number: Stacks E449.C567 2014

Traditions and recollections of Berlin /by Bailey K. Davis ; with a foreword by Faye Memolo.

157 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Davis, Bailey K.

GUSN: 294255

Call Number: Stacks F44.B47 D38 1989

The British raid on Essex :the forgotten battle of the War of 1812 /Jerry Roberts.

x, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Creators: Roberts, Jerry, author.

GUSN: 294256

Call Number: Stacks E359.5.C7 R63 2014

Tempest-tossed :the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker /Susan Campbell.

xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Campbell, Susan, 1959- author.

GUSN: 294257

Call Number: Stacks HQ1413.H65 C36 2014

American holiday postcards, 1905-1915 :imagery and context /Daniel Gifford.

ix, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm, "This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Gifford reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive grou...

Creators: Gifford, Daniel, 1970-

GUSN: 294258

Call Number: 85M Stacks NC1878.7.U6 G54 2013

The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson :volume 1: 1740-1766 /John W. Tyler, editor [and] Elizabeth Dubrulle, associate editor.

xlvi, 625 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Creators: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780. Tyler, John W., 1951- Dubrulle, Elizabeth. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 294259

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v. 84

Maria Longworth Storer :from music and art to popes and presidents /Constance J. Moore, Nancy M. Broermann.

xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents tells the story of one of Cincinnati's most prominent women activists and socialites, Maria Longworth Storer. A philanthropist and talented artist, known as the founder of Rookwood Pottery, Ma...

Creators: Moore, Constance J., author. Broermann, Nancy, 1950- author. University of Cincinnati. Press.

GUSN: 361429

Call Number: Stacks E748.S884 M66 2019

Lives of houses /edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee.

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Kennedy, Kate, editor. Lee, Hermione, editor.

GUSN: 361430

Call Number: Stacks PN164.L58 2020

Twentieth-century building materials :history and conservation /edited with a new preface by Thomas C. Jester.

xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm, A guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. With more than 200 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, it focuses on the history and conservation of mo...

Creators: Jester, Thomas C., editor. Tomlan, Michael A. Building modern America. Getty Conservation Institute,

GUSN: 361431

Call Number: Stacks TA403.6 .T87 2014

Boston's Apollo :Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent /edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].

256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm, "In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962), a young Black elevator attendant, at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figures--both male and female--in Sargent'...

Creators: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, artist. Silver, Nathaniel E., editor, curator, contributor. Fisher, Paul, 1952- contributor. Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose), contributor. O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor. Hirschler, Erica E., contributor. Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor. Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor. Tóibín, Colm, 1955- contributor. Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Works. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,

GUSN: 361432

Call Number: Stacks N6537.S32 A4 2020

Larry Salk :California dreaming and the evolution of American fashion art, 1945-1965 /Frederic A. Sharf with Susan Ward.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Salk, Lawrence. Ward, Susan. Brigham and Women's Hospital. Sharf Admitting Center.

GUSN: 361433

Call Number: Coll TT509.S53 2007

Style and the city :New York city fashion art : two decades of advertising drawings : 1955-1975 /by Frederic A. Sharf with Morton Kaish and Alexandra B. Huff.

72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Kaish, Morton, 1927- Huff, Alexandra B.

GUSN: 361434

Call Number: Coll NC998.5.N72 N489 2010

Figure, fabric, fantasy :five decades of American fashion drawing (1940s-1980s) : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Alexandra B. Huff and Frederic A. Sharf with Phil French and Morton Kaish.

102 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Creators: Huff, Alexandra B., author. Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- author. French, Phil, author. Kaish, Morton, 1927- author. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361435

Call Number: Coll TT509.H86 2012

Embroidered dreams :designs from the House of Madeleine & Madeleine : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection /Emily Banis Stoehrer.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2014.

Creators: Stoehrer, Emily Banis. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 361436

Call Number: Coll TT505.M334 S76 2014

Maine and American art :the Farnsworth Art Museum /Michael K. Komanecky, Jane Bianco, Angela Waldron.

384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 x 25 cm, Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial, the book considers more than 200 major artworks of American art from the Farnsworth Art Museum's impressive holdings and details how the state has figured prominently in the development of Amer...

Creators: Komanecky, Michael, author. Bianco, Jane, author. Waldron, Angela, author. Farnsworth Art Museum.

GUSN: 361437

Call Number: Coll ND230.M2 K66 2020

Plans and views of public parks /Charles E. Beveridge, editor ; Lauren Meier, associate editor ; Irene Mills, assistant editor.

xiv, 429 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 x 29 cm.

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, designer. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene. editor.

GUSN: 361448

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 F74 2015

Frederick Law Olmsted :plans and views of communities and private estates /Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, editors.

xvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 cm., Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society. Lavishly illustrated with over...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene, editor.

GUSN: 361449

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 A3 2020

Asher Benjamin :American architect, author, artist /Bill Ranauro.

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American architecture in the first half of the nineteenth century. Taking inspiration from the neoclassical design...

Creators: Ranauro, Bill, author.

GUSN: 361450

Call Number: Stacks NA737.B46 R36 2021

Bunny Williams on garden style /written with Nancy Drew.

287 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm, In Bunny Williams on Garden Style , Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic. For Williams, gardens offer an escape, and she imparts vital informatio...

Creators: Williams, Bunny, 1944- author. Drew, Nancy, 1948- author.

GUSN: 361451

Call Number: Stacks SB457.5 .W493 2015

Boston's oldest buildings and where to find them /Joseph M. Bagley.

222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "A guidebook for Boston's 50 oldest buildings. Written in a conversational manner that does not bog the reader down in technical jargon, but allows them to see the history of Boston through the lens of its oldest structures whi...

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 361452

Call Number: Stacks F73.37 .B325 2021

Urban archipelago :an environmental history of the Boston Harbor Islands /Pavla Simková.

xi, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston's "hidden shores." While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured parks or have the appearance of wooded hills rising gently...

Creators: éSimková, Pavla, 1986- author.

GUSN: 361453

Call Number: Stacks GF504.M4 S56 2021

Lost towns of New England /Renee Mallet.

108 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm, "New England is home to abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. From villages sunk underwater to cities undone by the rise and fall of mill life, madness or just plain bad luck, these ghost towns offer a unique look into...

Creators: Mallet, Renee, author.

GUSN: 361454

Call Number: Stacks F4.M35 2021

Colonial Weymouth :the Forgotten Second Settlement /Mark Robert Schneider ; Maps by David Finney ; Photographs by Annemarie Reardon unless otherwise noted.

iii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948- author. Finney, David, mapmaker. Reardon, Annemarie, photographer.

GUSN: 361455

Call Number: Stacks F74.W77 S36 2021

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