Historic New England

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

Der sinnhafte Aufbau der gebauten Welt :eine Architektursoziologie /Silke Steets.

274 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Date: 2015.

Creators: Steets, Silke, 1973-

GUSN: 314850

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 S654x 2015

A world more bright :the life of Mary Baker Eddy /by Isabel Ferguson and Heather Vogel Frederick.

vi, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Ferguson, Isabel. Frederick, Heather Vogel. Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910. Science and health. Christian Science Publishing Society.

GUSN: 314851

Call Number: Stacks BX6995.F475 2013

Cape Cod modern :midcentury architecture and community on the Outer Cape /Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; new photographs by Raimund Koch ; new drawings by Thomas Dalmas.

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intelle...

Creators: McMahon, Peter, 1957- author. Cipriani, Christine, author. Frampton, Kenneth, writer of foreword. Koch, Raimund, photographer.

GUSN: 314853

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7235.M42 C3746 2014 (and 1 more)

Colonial New Hampshire :a history /Jere R. Daniell.

xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Daniell, Jere R.

GUSN: 314854

Call Number: Stacks F37.D25 2015

African Americans of Martha's Vineyard :from enslavement to presidential visit /Thomas Dresser.

160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Dresser, Tom.

GUSN: 314855

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 D74 2010

Wesleyan University, 1910-1970 :academic ambition and middle-class America /David B. Potts.

xxiv, 677 pages ; 25 cm

Creators: Potts, David B. (David Bronson)

GUSN: 314856

Call Number: Stacks LD5901.W32 P683 2015

Progressive design in the Midwest :the Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts /Jennifer Komar Olivarez ; with the assistance of Corine A. Wegener ; introductory essay by Roger G. Kennedy.

197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "Largely regarded as one of the most important movements of American architecture and design, the Prairie School helped move America into the modern age. Signaling a departure from nineteenth-century formality, its practitioners sought to create buildings that were...

Date: 2000.

Creators: Olivarez, Jennifer Komar. Wegener, Corine A. Kennedy, Roger G. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

GUSN: 314857

Call Number: Coll. NA7238.M54 O44 2000

Boston's Orange Line /Andrew Elder and Jeremy C. Fox.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Elder, Andrew, 1980- Fox, Jeremy C., 1975-

GUSN: 317340

Call Number: Stacks HE4491.B78 E43 2013

Nantucket /James Everett Grieder and Georgen Charnes.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Grieder, James Everett. Charnes, Georgen.

GUSN: 317341

Call Number: Stacks F72.N2 G64 2012

No ordinary being :W. Starling Burgess: inventor, naval architect, poet, aviation pioneer, and master of American design : a biography /by Llewellyn Howland III.

xii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm, "Few twentieth-century Americans lived a more creative, event-filled, and often conflicted life than the Boston-born aviation pioneer and yacht designer W. Starling Burgess. Orphaned at twelve, Burgess received his first patent at nineteen, left Harvard, ...

Creators: Howland, Llewellyn, III.

GUSN: 317342

Call Number: Stacks CT275.B785 H68 2015

Arts & crafts architecture :history and heritage in New England /Maureen Meister.

xvi, 288 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm, "This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement...

Creators: Meister, Maureen.

GUSN: 317343

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA715.M45 2014

Ruth Webb Lee's handbook of early American pressed glass patterns.

[212] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

Date: [Ã1964]

Creators: Lee, Ruth Webb, 1894-

GUSN: 317344

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.L43 1936

Planning the city upon a hill :Boston since 1630 /Lawrence W. Kennedy.

xi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Date: Ã1992.

Creators: Kennedy, Lawrence W., 1952-

GUSN: 317430

Call Number: Stacks HT168.B6 K46 1992

Early native literacies in New England :a documentary and critical anthology /edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss.

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Bross, Kristina. Wyss, Hilary E.

GUSN: 318532

Call Number: Stacks E99.A35 E37 2008

Italian villas and their gardens /by Edith Wharton ; illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parish and by photos.

xii, 270 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976, Ã1904.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

GUSN: 318533

Call Number: Stacks NA7594.W46 1976

A guide to the preventive conservation of photograph collections /Bertrand Lavédrine, Sybille Manod & Jean-Paul Gandolfo.

312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Date: 2003.

Creators: Lavédrine, Bertrand. Manod, Sybille. Gandolfo, Jean-Paul. Getty Conservation Institute.

GUSN: 318534

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR465.L39 2003

The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants /with the best wishes of the author, John William Linzee, Jr.

xii, 609 pages : portraits, plates ; 25 cm

Date: 1913.

Creators: Linzee, John William, 1867-

GUSN: 320034

Benjamin Franklin :a perspective : [catalogue of] an exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 17 through September 22, 1975 /by Louise Todd Ambler.

147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Date: 1975.

Creators: Ambler, Louise Todd. Fogg Art Museum.

GUSN: 321073

The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson /compiled from family letters and reminiscences by his great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph.

xiii, 384 pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, plan, portraits ; 24 cm

Date: 1947.

Creators: Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892.

GUSN: 321199

The tragedies of Shakespeare.

1266 pages ; 18 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

GUSN: 321590

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

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