Historic New England

Boston's Franklin Park :Olmsted, recreation, and the modern city /Ethan Carr ; afterword by Gary Hilderbrand.

201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm., Frederick Law Olmsted designed Franklin Park in 1885 as the centerpiece of the Boston park system that later became known as the Emerald Necklace. Often cited with Central Park (1858) and Prospect Park (1865) as one of the three most important "large ...

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author. Hilderbrand, Gary R., author of afterword. Library of American Landscape History,

GUSN: 368650

Call Number: F73.65.C37 2023 Stacks

Painting the inhabited landscape :Fitz H. Lane and the global reach of antebellum America /Margaretta Markle Lovell.

xiii, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm, "Examines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804-1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New...

Creators: Lovell, Margaretta M., author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865, artist.

GUSN: 368651

Call Number: ND237.L27 L68 2023 Stacks

Trailblazing women printmakers :Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers /Elena M. Sarni.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 21 cm, "The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott Award-winner and beloved children's book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan ...

Creators: Sarni, Elena M., author. Princeton Architectural Press,

GUSN: 368652

Call Number: Stacks NE539.B87 S27 2023

The commercial landscape of Boston in 1800 :documentary and archaeological perspectives on the geography of retail shopkeeping /by Gayle Elizabeth Sawtelle.

xiv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps

Creators: Sawtelle, Gayle Elizabeth.

GUSN: 368653

Call Number: Stacks HF5429.5.B6 S28 1999

Interiors de luxe.

55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 36 cm

Date: 1926.

Creators: Sanford Mills (Sanford, Me.)

GUSN: 368654

Call Number: Stacks NK2004.I68 1926

Envois of the Rotch travelling scholarship, 1885-1892;being a series of measured drawings of European architecture,made for the trustees by holders of the Rotch scholarship, together with the successful designs submitted in the competitions.

11 unnumbered pages 62 plates (including plans) 41 cm

Date: 1896.

Creators: Boston Society of Architects. Rotch Scholarship Committee.

GUSN: 368655

Call Number: Stacks NA2340.B6 1896

The Petit Trianon :being a reproduction of plates from a work by James A. Arnott and John Wilson, architects, of Edinburgh. The Rotch traveling scholarship envois /by Joseph Maginnisse.

6 leaves, 83 leaves of plates, [6] pages, [209]-286 pages : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Arnott, James A. (James Alexander) Wilson, John, 1877- Maginnisse, Joseph. Rotch traveling scholarship envois.

GUSN: 368656

Call Number: Stacks NA1046.A76q

Copyright law of the United States of America :contained in title 17 of the United States Code.

175 pages ; 23 cm

Date: 1996

Creators: Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

GUSN: 368657

Call Number: Stacks KF2994.A2 U5 1996

Ethics and the archival profession :introduction and case studies /Karen Benedict.

2 preliminary leaves, 91 pages ; 23 cm, Ethics codes define societal expectations for individual and institutional moral conduct and performance. This volume of fourty case studies considers nearly every facet of professional archival work--from appraisal and administration to reference and the work...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Benedict, Karen M. Society of American Archivists,

GUSN: 368658

Call Number: Stacks CD971.B46 2003

American Daguerreian art /Floyd and Marion Rinhart.

ix, 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, Survey of the work of the early American photographer-artists, who from 1840 to 1860 created a lasting portrait of an age.

Creators: Rinhart, Floyd, author. Rinhart, Marion, author. Clarkson N. Potter (Firm),

GUSN: 368659

Call Number: Stacks TR365.R47 1967

Understanding use :objects in museums of science and technology /edited by Tim Boon, Elizabeth Haines, Arnaud Dubois, and Klaus Staubermann.

v, 242 pages ; 26 cm, "This volume proposes a way of thinking, and of developing practice, around three varieties of the use of science and technology museum objects: first, the ways that machines, instruments and equipment were used in their pre-museum 'lives' (which use provides the most frequent ...

Creators: Boon, Tim, editor. Haines, Elizabeth (Elizabeth V.), editor. Dubois, Arnaud, editor. Staubermann, K. B. (Klaus B.), editor.

GUSN: 368660

Call Number: Coll. T179.U53 2024

Our science, ourselves :how gender, race, and social movements shaped the study of science /Christa Kuljian, University of Massachusetts Press.

ix, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm., "When Christa Kuljian arrived on the Harvard College campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1980 with copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ms. magazine, she was concerned that the women's movement had peaked in the previous ...

Creators: Kuljian, Christa, author

GUSN: 368733

Call Number: Stacks HQ1155.K85 2024

More than blue, more than Yankee :complexity and change in New England politics /edited by Amy Fried and Erin O'Brien.

xii, 267 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm, "New England politics can, at first blush, appear monochromatic. After all, only one member of the entire region's current delegation to the US Congress is a Republican; in contrast, only two states in the region-Rhode Island and Connecticut-had Democrati...

Creators: Fried, Amy, editor. O'Brien, Erin E., editor.

GUSN: 368734

Call Number: Stacks JK2295.N53 M67 2024

Chroniques de New York :romans, nouvelles /Edith Wharton ; édition établie et présentée par Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun et Anne Ullmo.

1274 pages : illustrations, portraits, fac-similés ; 21 cm., (S0 0 (BElle est là, autour de vous. Ne passez pas à côté – l’immédiat, le réel, le nôtre, le vôtre, celui du romancier qu’il attend… Faites New York ! (S1 (B(Henri James à Edith Wharton, 1902).Sur le conseil du romancier Henry James, l’Am...

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, auteur. Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle, éditeur intellectuel, auteur. Ullmo, Anne, éditeur intellectuel, auteur. Chénetier, Marc, 1946- traducteur. Malroux, Claire, traducteur. Mayoux, Suzanne V., traducteur. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. House of mirth. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Custom of the country. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Old New York.

GUSN: 368735

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 C4 2024

The early furniture of French Canada /Jean Palardy ; translated from the French by Eric McLean.

411 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1978, Ã1963.

Creators: Palardy, Jean, 1905-1991. McLean, Eric.

GUSN: 368867

Call Number: Coll NK2442.P313 1978

America and the daguerreotype /edited by John Wood.

xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm, Now available in paperback, America and the Daguerreo-type brings together 200 previously unpublished images (28 in full color) as it examines the earliest photographic process and its effect on the way we view ourselves. For this collection, John Wood selecte...

Creators: Wood, John, 1947 January 2- editor. Hendel, Richard, book designer. Kilgo, Dolores Ann, 1940- contributor. Stilgoe, John R., 1949- contributor. Stannard, David E., contributor. Johnson, Brooks, 1954- contributor. Graf, John F., 1962- contributor. Palmquist, Peter E., contributor. Verhulst, Jeanne, contributor. University of Iowa Press,

GUSN: 368868

Call Number: Stacks TR365.A47 1991

Architecture follows fish :an amphibious history of the North Atlantic /André Tavares.

277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "To what extent can a fish produce architecture? This book sets out to trace a socioecological history of North Atlantic architecture in relation to fisheries, thus shedding light on the connection that exists between the transformation of marine environments...

Creators: Tavares, André, 1976- author.

GUSN: 368869

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 T38 2024

Catalogue, Boston Architectural Club Exhibition 1904 :in the gallery of The Boston Art Club, Dartmouth corner Newbury Street, from May 2nd to 14th inclusive.

146 pages : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1904.

Creators: Boston Architectural Club (1904)

GUSN: 368874

Call Number: Stacks NA2400.B7 B67 1904

One thing and another :gathered together by Charlotte Loring Lowell.

79 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1971.

Creators: Lowell, Charlotte Loring.

GUSN: 369748

Call Number: Stacks PS586.L68 1971

The art collection of the late Mr. & Mrs. Charles E.F. McCann :English XVII and XVIII century furniture ... /sold by the heirs.

332 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1942.

Creators: McCann, Charles E. F. Parke-Bernet Galleries.

GUSN: 369749

Call Number: 85M Stacks N5220.M25 x.M25 x

Catalogue of the Boston Architectural Club exhibition 1906 :at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square, from November 5 to November 24, inclusive.

156 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Date: [1906]

Creators: Boston Architectural Club. Boston Public Library.

GUSN: 369750

Call Number: 85 M Stacks NA2400.B7 B67 1906

The Boston almanac for the year 1845. /By S.N. Dickinson.

166, [2] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 14 cm.

Date: c1844.

Creators: Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848. Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880. Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield, 1800-1879. Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848, printer. Boynton, George W., -1884, engraver. Thomas Groom & Co.,

GUSN: 369751

Call Number: Stacks AY201.B7 B669

The run of the mill :a pictorial narrative of the expansion, dominion, decline, and enduring impact of the New England textile industry /by Steve Dunwell.

xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, Portrait of the human, mechanical and environmental determinants of New England's textile industry, the social, technological, cultural, and economic factors that perpetrated its creation, consolidation and decline and the remaining legacy.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Dunwell, Steve.

GUSN: 369756

Call Number: 85M Stacks HD9857.A1 D861978

Braided Rug

Wool rug. Multiple strips of purple, green, pink, brown, and blue wool braided into an oval shape.

Date: 1946

Maker: Smart, Mildred Elizabeth, 1895-1983 (Maker) Sawyer Woolen Mills (Vendor)

Material: wool (textile), braiding

GUSN: 1

Accession Number: 1997.93

Door Enframement

A door enframement put together with a tongue and groove. The upper portion has a projecting cap and the lower portion has composition rosettes.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: composition (material), softwood

GUSN: 3

Accession Number: 1960.15

Stair Tread

Stair tread with numerous layers of paint and nail holes; grooved along both long edges.

Date: ca. 1685

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 4

Accession Number: 1959.522

Balustrade

Staircase balustrade painted cream-colored, except for handrail and newel post, which are dark brown. Sawn silhouette balusters, simple square newel post, molded handrail and bottom rail with half-round molding.

Date: ca. 1720

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), sawing, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 5

Accession Number: 1981.72

Pilaster Capital

Elaborate composite capital with two rows of acanthus leaves and a third row of finer leaves. Above the leaves are three pairs of scrolled ornament with a patera topping the middle. Behind the patera runs a decorative curving band.

Date: 1880 C-1882

Maker: unknown

Material: Carved, carving (processes), sandstone

GUSN: 8

Accession Number: 1987.56

Window Sash

Circle and diamond pattern; lead cane applied as surface decoration only; patterns are made with 5/8" wide galvanized metal strips. Glazing compound applied on opposite side; painted yellow on exterior.

Date: ca. 1797

Maker: AFTER Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845 (Designer)

Material: glass (material), lead (metal), metal, painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 9

Accession Number: 1942.702.1-2

Sheathing

Molded sheathing with tongue along one long edge and quarter-round on the other; four vertical strips of shallow shadow molding; many nail holes. Object has eye hooks on back from previous exhibit.

Date: 1600-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), oak (wood)

GUSN: 10

Accession Number: 1956.6

Newel

Twisted baluster inside four-legged post; walnut finish, partially painted at both ends, in a gray tone.

Date: 1765-1790

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 12

Accession Number: 1962.73

Modillion Block

Modillion block with molded cap which is attached by two wrought nails; gray paint.

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 13

Accession Number: 1959.232

Ornament

Loosely twisted central section surrounded by flower petals; white paint.

Date: 1767-1773

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 14

Accession Number: 1919.417

Staircase Drop

Interior acorn-shaped stair drop with cream paint.

Date: ca. 1727

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 15

Accession Number: 1969.114

Dado

Panelled dado with narrow rectangular raised feather panel over wide rectangular panel, also raised and feathered. Feather-edge is one inch and grooves are quarter-round molded.

Date: ca. 1739

Maker: More, William (Cabinetmaker)

Material: molding (forming), paneling, softwood

GUSN: 16

Accession Number: 1927.846

Nogging

A small bit of dried eel grass/seaweed. Insc? Eel grass wall filling from Pierce House, Dorchester.

Date: ca. 1650

Maker: unknown

Material: algae (protists)

GUSN: 17

Accession Number: 1919.669

Framing Member

Part of a joint, location uncertain. Tag "piece of framework, Barnard Capen House, Dorchester"

Date: 1625-1637

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 18

Accession Number: 1914.264

Handrail

Simple rectangular handrail profile, with rounded edges and brown stain.

Date: ca. 1754

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood, staining

GUSN: 19

Accession Number: 1921.135

Clapboard

Much-weathered clapboard section.

Date: ca. 1680

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood

GUSN: 20

Accession Number: 1928.173

Brick

Molded brick with ovolo running along one side.

Date: ca. 1679

Maker: unknown

Material: brick (clay product), molding (forming)

GUSN: 21

Accession Number: 1922.365A

Staircase Drop

Three-quarter round acorn-shaped drop with white paint over olive.

Date: ca. 1727

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 22

Accession Number: 1969.115

Lath

Riven lath.

Date: ca. 1775

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, softwood

GUSN: 23

Accession Number: 1928.2.1-2

Girt

Girt with chamfered edge, lamb's tongue stop and the remnants of plaster. Whitewashed on underside. Tenon has two large peg holes.

Date: ca. 1686

Maker: unknown

Material: chamfering, oak (wood), whitewashing (coating)

GUSN: 24

Accession Number: 1928.1137

Window Cap

Window cap/cornice carved from a single piece of wood; rabbeted around three sides on top; painted gray.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 27

Accession Number: 1961.135

Sheathing

Large fragment of wall sheathing; shadow molding along one side with groove along corresponding edge. Molding portion painted black with whitewash occurring sporadically over the rest of the board.

Date: 1668-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood, whitewashing (coating)

GUSN: 28

Accession Number: 1964.252.1

Cornice

Section of cornice, one edge mitered; traces of very early red paint/stain under white paint.

Date: ca. 1725

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), softwood, staining

GUSN: 29

Accession Number: 1959.93

Pin

Conical pin.

Date: ca. 1725

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 30

Accession Number: 1914.129

Column

Column fragment, perhaps a column base, with 2" wide carved flutes.

Date: 1880-1882

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), fluting, sandstone

GUSN: 32

Accession Number: 1987.57

Wall fragment

Section of wall with oak lath which is up and down sawn, riven and accordianed and attached to very wide studs. There is a very fine coat of plaster covering most of the sample.

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, oak (wood), plaster, splitting, sawing

GUSN: 33

Accession Number: 1964.400C

Sheathing

Fragments of wall sheathing with shadow molding and black paint as well as whitewash.

Date: 1675

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 34

Accession Number: 1964.252.2AB

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