Historic New England

American cookery, or, The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making puff-pastes, pies, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake, adapted to this country, and all grades of life /by Amelia Simmons ; with an introduction by Karen Hess.

xv, 70 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Simmons, Amelia.

GUSN: 260073

Call Number: Coll. TX703.S5 1996

Keeping hearth and home in old Massachusetts :a practical primer for daily living /compiled and edited by Carol Padgett.

x, 229 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Padgett, Carol, 1944-

GUSN: 260074

Call Number: Coll. TX15.K43 2001 c. 1 (and 1 more)

The I hate to cook book.Drawings by Hilary Knight.

176 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Bracken, Peg.

GUSN: 260075

Call Number: Coll. TX740.B63 1960

Flavors of Cape Cod :a gathering of new and favorite old Cape Cod recipes including Indian pudding, sea clam pie, baked beans, potato bargain and numerous other taste-tempting treats presented with historical facts and old photographs.

208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Thornton W. Burgess Society.

GUSN: 260076

Call Number: Coll. TX715.F52x 1987

The State of Maine cook book /[issued by the Democratic Women of Maine ; compiled by Jane Armstrong Tucker]

126 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [2009].

Creators: Tucker, Jane Armstrong. Democratic Women of Maine.

GUSN: 260077

Call Number: Coll. TX715.S828 2009

Mastering the art of French cooking /by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck ; [illustrations by Sidonie Coryn].

xv, 726 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1961.

Creators: Child, Julia. Beck, Simone, 1904-1991. Bertholle, Louisette.

GUSN: 260078

Call Number: Coll. TX719.C454 1961

The original Boston Cooking-School cook book, 1896.

xxx, 567 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: [1973? c1896]

Creators: Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915.

GUSN: 260079

Call Number: Coll. TX715.F2249 1896a

Joy of cooking /by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker ; illustrated by Laura Hartman Maestro.

xiv, 1136 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America - the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever. Her...

Date: c1997.

Creators: Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff, 1877-1962. Becker, Marion Rombauer. Becker, Ethan, 1945- Guarnaschelli, Maria.

GUSN: 260080

Call Number: Coll. TX715.R75 1997

The Time-Life American regional cookbook /by the editors of Time-Life Books.

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

Date: c1978.

Creators: Time-Life Books.

GUSN: 260081

Call Number: Coll. TX715.T586 1978

Banned in Boston :the Watch and Ward Society's crusade against books, burlesque, and the social evil /Neil Miller.

xi, 209 p. ; 24 cm., In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase "Banned in Boston."

Date: c2010.

Creators: Miller, Neil, 1945-

GUSN: 260082

Call Number: Stacks HV6795.B7 M55 2010

The Mary Frances cook book :or, Adventures among the kitchen people /by Jane Eayre Fryer ; full page illustrations by Margaret G. Hays, other illustrations by Jane Allen Boyer.

175 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: [1912]

Creators: Fryer, Jane Eayre, 1876-

GUSN: 260083

Call Number: Coll. TX652.5.F85 1912

Perennial garden plants, or, The modern florilegium :a concise account of herbaceous plants, including bulbs, for general garden use /written and illustrated by Graham Stuart Thomas.

xvi, 388 p., [56] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Thomas, Graham Stuart.

GUSN: 265362

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB434.T48 1982

A place in the country /John Brookes.

240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Brookes, John, 1933-

GUSN: 265363

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.B729 1984

Gazebos and other garden structure designs /[authors, Janet A. Strombeck, Richard H. Strombeck ; illustrated by Marlene Ekman, Robert Petersen].

96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Strombeck, Janet. Strombeck, Richard.

GUSN: 265364

Call Number: Hav. Archives NA8450.S85 1983

The lattice gardener /William C. Mulligan ; foreword by Rosemary Verey.

192 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Mulligan, William C., 1942-

GUSN: 265365

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.5 M84 1995

Private landscapes :creating form, vistas, and mystery in the garden /by Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes ; design by Laurence Vétu-Kane ; garden plans by Perry Guillot.

251 : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Seebohm, Caroline. Sykes, Christopher Simon, 1948-

GUSN: 265366

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.S46 1989

The small garden in the city.

136 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1974, c1973].

Creators: Garland, Madge, 1896-1990.

GUSN: 265367

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.G29 1974

America's great private gardens.

218 p. illus. (part col.) map. 32 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Schuler, Stanley.

GUSN: 265368

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.U6 S34 1967

The House beautiful book of gardens and outdoor living,by Joseph E. Howland.

376 p. illus. (part col.) 34 cm.

Date: [1958]

Creators: Howland, Joseph E.

GUSN: 265369

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.U6 H6 1958

Versailles, palais, musée, jardins.

1 v. (unpaged) plates, ports., plans. 27 cm.

Date: [1852?]

Creators: France. Bureau des Galeries Historiques.

GUSN: 265370

Call Number: Hav. Archives DC801.V56 V46 185X

Les châteaux de l'Île de France.With a pref. by Wladimir d'Ormesson. [Planned and produced under the general direction of Pierre Levallois and Gaston d'Angelis. Edited by Claude Fregnac.

321 p. illus. (part col.), map (on lining papers) 32 cm.

Date: [c1965]

Creators: Levallois, Pierre. Angélis, Gaston d'. Fregnac, Claude, ed.

GUSN: 265371

Call Number: Hav. Archives NA7735.M39613 1965

From folly to follies :discovering the world of gardens /pictures and text by Michel Saudan and Sylvia Saudan-Skira ; introduction by François Crouzet.

ix, 237 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Saudan, Michel, 1930- Saudan-Skira, Sylvia.

GUSN: 265372

Call Number: Hav. Archives NA8460.S2813 1988

Garden ornament :five hundred years of nature, art, and artifice /George Plumptre ; with special contributions by Jamie Garnock and James Rylands ; photographs by Hugh Palmer.

256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1990, c1989.

Creators: Plumptre, George.

GUSN: 265373

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.5.P57 1990

Color for your winter yard & garden, with flowers, berries, birds, and trees /Helen Van Pelt Wilson.

xvi, 175 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, 1901-2003.

GUSN: 265374

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB439.5.W54 1978

An encyclopaedia of gardening :comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening : including all the latest improvements, a general history of gardening in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state : with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles /by J.C. Loudon ; illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston.

xl, 1278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858.

GUSN: 265375

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB450.97.L68 1878

Garden colour:Spring, by Mrs. C.W. Earle; Summer, by E.V.B.; Autumn, by Rose Kingsley; Winter, by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs; etc., etc.Notes & water color sketches by Margaret Waterfield.

195 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Waterfield, Margaret H., ed. Earle, Maria Theresa. Boyle, Eleanor Vere Gordon, 1825-1916. Kingsley, Rose Georgina, 1845- Gibbs, Vicary, 1853-1932. Powell, W. Richmond. Crofton, Helen, Mrs. Mount, George.

GUSN: 265376

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB454.W25 1905

The English garden :a poem /William Mason.

ix, 243 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Mason, William, 1725-1797.

GUSN: 265377

Call Number: Hav. Archives PR3548.M2 A68 1982

A plan of Mr. Pope's garden /John Serle. Gardens at Richmond, Kew, and environs, ca. 1730-1760.

131 p. in various pagings, [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Serle, John.

GUSN: 265378

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.G75 L66 1982

The garden of to-day,by H. Avray Tipping.

287, [1] p. front., plates. 21 cm.

Date: 1933.

Creators: Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933.

GUSN: 265379

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB453.T55 1933

Garden design in theory and practice.

xv, 272 p. ill. (some col.) plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Agar, Madeline.

GUSN: 265380

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB454.A45 1911

Rock gardens and alpine plants :including water, bog, and moraine gardens /T.W. Sanders.

196 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [192-?]

Creators: Sanders, T. W. (Thomas William), 1855-1926.

GUSN: 265381

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB421.S26 192X

A book of English gardens,written by M.R. Gloag, illustrated by Katharine Montagu Wyatt.

3 p. l., ix-xii, 340 p. 24 col. pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

Date: [1906]

Creators: Gloag, M. R. Wyatt, Katharine Montagu, ill.

GUSN: 265382

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.G7 G6 1906

The theory and practice of gardening[by A.J. Dezaillier d'Argenville; translated from the French by] John James.

[16], 220 p., 32 plates (26 fold.) illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. James, John, d. 1746.

GUSN: 265383

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB461.D42 1712

The formal garden in England,by Reginald Blomfield ... with illustrations by F. Inigo Thomas ...

xvi, 250 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: 1901.

Creators: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942.

GUSN: 265384

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB451.B56 1901

Plants that merit attention /the Garden Club of America ; Janet Meakin Poor, editor ; Nancy P. Brewster, photographic editor.

v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., Photographs and text highlight the landscaping of trees and shrubs.

Date: c1984 (1994 printing)-<c1996>

Creators: Poor, Janet Meakin. Brewster, Nancy P. Garden Club of America.

GUSN: 265385

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB435.P6 1994 v. 2 (and 1 more)

The garden book /John Brookes ; [American editor, Marjorie J. Dietz].

287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm., In memory of Dudley L. Adair given by John and Pam Kowalski.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Brookes, John, 1933- Dietz, Marjorie J.

GUSN: 265386

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.B725 1984

The small garden /John Brookes.

256 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Brookes, John, 1933-

GUSN: 265387

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB453.B76 1977

Sconce

No description

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: stamping (forming), tin (metal), welding

GUSN: 2765

Accession Number: 1991.1211

Table Rug

Caucasian bagface carpet, now used as a chair-seat cover, of woven wool with a diamond-pattern and multi-strip border- in brown, tan, blue, deep rust and red. There are two salvage edges and two rough edges.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2766

Accession Number: 1991.1213

Miniature Chest of drawers

A miniature chest, with an overhanging rectangular top over three graduated drawers and projecting base. The chest is painted black and decorated with peach colored circles and quarter roundsat corners of drawers across the top. Constructed with wood pegs.

Date: 1825-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2767

Accession Number: 1991.1215

Candle Box

Of rectangular form with a sliding cover. The sides are carved with a 6 pointed compass device within a circle, enclosed by incised cresents and a zig-zag border. One end is incised with a heart device within a zig-zag border, the other end has a 6 pointed star within a circle and zig-zag border. Th...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), incising, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2768

Accession Number: 1991.1216AB

Nightstand

Stand with one drawer and a lower galleried shelf with a beaded edge. Square overhanging top with rounded corners over a straight skirt. Vasiform turned upper legs and slightly bulbous turned lower legs. Original red paint. The drawer has two stamped brass pulls.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: Shaker Village (Maker)

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2769

Accession Number: 1991.1217

Table Rug

Of rectangular form, patterned with a spray of polychrome flowers and leaves within an oval reserve of medium blue field and shiped border. An outer-border of four braided roses in red and black. Polychrome wool yarns hooked and clipped in raised "Waldoboro style" on a linen foundation.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: braiding, clipping (trimming), hooking, linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2770

Accession Number: 1991.1218

Miniature Portrait of a Man

One of a pair of miniature portraits; canary yellow oval on a green background; oil on panel; portrait of Thomas Pollard; profile; seated in chair; 1/2 length.

Date: 1828

Maker: unknown

Material: panels (wood), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2771

Accession Number: 1991.1221.1

Box

Of rectangular form, with a domed hinged lid. Painted a deep orange-salmon and decorated with half circles (lunettes) in black at the edges of the lid sides, base and at the top of the box.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2772

Accession Number: 1991.1222

Ship Model

A model of a two-masted ship called a "Pinky" or Chebacco Boat, fully rigged with cloth sails and wooden masts. The hull is painted a dark green and it is mounted on a green painted stand. Schooner with 3 sails, a high sharp stern and bowsprit.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: American linden (wood), cotton (textile), painting (coating), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 2773

Accession Number: 1991.1223

Marriage Box

A rectangular cotter-pin-hinged lid with molded edges and cleats over a conforming box with a molded base raised on four turnip-shaped feet. It is painted red-brown and decorated with circles and "clock-like" deviced and birds flanking a heart under the initials "A.P." -all painted white.

Date: 1725-1730

Maker: Attributed to Lane, Samuel (Maker) Attributed to Moulton, John (Maker)

Material: maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2774

Accession Number: 1991.1224

Woodard-Winslow-Martindale Family Register

Family record with the births and deaths recorded inside a looped rose drape tied with two bowknots. There are two columns entwined with roses on either side; symbolic figurines appear at the bottom in between two tombs, and at the top where two figures tend sheep, and another- larger, off to the ri...

Date: 1837

Maker: Edson, Almira (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2775

Accession Number: 1991.1225

Fluid-Burning Lamp

Clear pressed-glass fluid-burning lamp. It has a waisted loop front with a plain dome, a baluster hexagonal stem on hollow square pedestal with a narrow cornice, concave molding at the bottom and a square plinth. It is now wired as an electric lamp with a parchment shade.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), parchment (animal material), pressing

GUSN: 2776

Accession Number: 1991.1226AB

Captain Oliver Lane House

View of a house and wharf built by Captain Oliver Lane in Annisquam, MA, in 1833. Center of the scenic picture is a large white house, with an ell and a white fence surrounding the house. In the foreground is a river with three boats and a wharf, other houses and figures of people looking out window...

Date: October 1859

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2777

Accession Number: 1991.1227

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