Historic New England

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

The best ever! :Parades in New England, 1788-1940 /Jane C. Nylander.

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm, "Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skel...

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938- author.

GUSN: 361456

Call Number: Stacks GT4005.N95 2021

The citizen poets of Boston :a collection of forgotten poems, 1789-1820 /Paul Lewis, editor.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Lewis, Paul, 1949- editor.

GUSN: 361457

Call Number: Stacks PS549.B6 C58 2016

Arts and crafts jewelry in Boston :Frank Gardner Hale and his circle /Nonie Gadsen, Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer.

190 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm, "A vibrant and active community of jewelry makers at the turn of the century in Boston, united by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, created works of wearable art that came to define the 'Boston look' -- characterized by color...

Creators: Gadsden, Nonie, author. Melvin, Meghan, author. Stoehrer, Emily Banis, author. Snodgrass, Jennifer (Editor), editor. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361458

Call Number: Coll NK7301.B67 M53 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

American history, art, and culture :writings in honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks /Pat Warner and Gerald W.R. Ward, editors.

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Creators: Warner, Pat. Ward, Gerald W. R. Fuller Craft Museum.

GUSN: 361459

Call Number: Coll NK805.A43 2018

American glass :the collections at Yale /John Stuart Gordon.

xi, 312 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital a...

Creators: Gordon, John Stuart, 1977- author. Yale University. Art Gallery,

GUSN: 361460

Call Number: Coll NK5102.Y35 G67 2018

Hands employed aright :the furniture making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) /Joshua A. Klein.

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Creators: Klein, Joshua A., author.

GUSN: 361461

Call Number: Coll NK2439.F57 K53 2018

Claggett :Newport's illustrious clockmakers /Donald L. Fennimore, Frank L. Hohmann III ; with an introduction by Dennis Carr.

268 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm, In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers William Claggett (1694-1748), James Wady (d. 1759), and Thomas Claggett (1730-1797)--individuals...

Creators: Fennimore, Donald L., author. Hohmann, Frank L., author. Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), writer of introduction.

GUSN: 361462

Call Number: Coll NK7497.C59 F46 2018

Collecting Nantucket :artifacts from an island community /Michael R. Harrison.

x, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community highlights historic artifacts, documents, and works of art from the permanent collection of the Nantucket Historical Association. It tells the stories of these objects and of their creator...

Creators: Harrison, Michael R., 1974- author, curator. Nantucket Historical Association,

GUSN: 361463

Call Number: Coll F72.N2 N35 2018

Nature's nation :American art and environment /Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Teddy Cruz, Rachael Z. DeLue, Mark Dion, Fonna Forman, Laura Turner Igoe, Robin Kelsey, Anne McClintock, Timothy Morton, Rob Nixon, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Kimia Shahi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm, "Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment offers a compelling new vision of American art, examining for the first time how artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding while contributing to the development of modern ...

Creators: Kusserow, Karl, author. Braddock, Alan C., 1961- author. Belarde-Lewis, Miranda, contributor. Cruz, Teddy, contributor. DeLue, Rachael Ziady, contributor. Dion, Mark, 1961- contributor. Forman, Fonna, contributor. Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- contributor. Kelsey, Robin, 1961- contributor. McClintock, Anne, 1954- contributor. Morton, Timothy, 1968- contributor. Nixon, Rob, 1954- contributor. Richmond-Moll, Jeffrey, contributor. Shahi, Kimia, contributor. Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- contributor. Princeton University. Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361464

Call Number: Coll N7650.K87 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

Concrete changes :architecture, politics, and the design of Boston City Hall /Brian M. Sirman.

ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm, 'From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new generation of politicians sw...

Creators: Sirman, Brian M., author.

GUSN: 361465

Call Number: Stacks NA4433.B57 S57 2018

Between city and country :Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia /Ronald Dale Karr.

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Karr, Ronald Dale, author.

GUSN: 361466

Call Number: Stacks F74.B9 K37 2018

Weathervanes of New England /Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer.

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "First used to gauge ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the skyline for more than three centuries. This comprehensive study of the development of the weathervane describes changes in form and functi...

Creators: Knoblock, Glenn A., author. Wemmer, David W., 1954- author.

GUSN: 361467

Call Number: Stacks NK9585.K59 2018

The world the trains made :a century of great railroad architecture in the United States and Canada /James D. Dilts.

xiv, 271 pages : color illustrations, plan ; 29 cm, The World the Trains Made will appeal to railroad and architecture buffs, preservationists considering the adaptive reuse of historic structures, and anyone concerned about our transportation priorities in the age of climate change--particularly wi...

Creators: Dilts, James D., 1936- author.

GUSN: 361468

Call Number: Stacks NA6311.D58 2018

Battle green Vietnam :the 1971 march on Concord, Lexington, and Boston /Elise Lemire.

219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston tells the story of how America's antiwar Vietnam veterans finally grabbed and held the national spotlight by simultaneously mobilizing two powerful tools: place and performance. The aim o...

Creators: Lemire, Elise Virginia, author.

GUSN: 361469

Call Number: Stacks.62.U6 L46 2021

Poland Spring :a tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900 /David L. Richards.

x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Between 1860 and 1900 the Ricker family's rustic frontier farm became the world-renowned summer community of Poland Spring, Maine, a "middle landscape" where upper-middle-class patrons and their urban values of status, leisure, and consumption confronted,...

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Richards, David, 1962-

GUSN: 361470

Call Number: Stacks F29.P7 R49 2005

Wisteria House :life in a New England home, 1839-2000 /Susan J. Montgomery.

xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, "Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839-2000 tells the story of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence,...

Creators: Montgomery, Susan J., 1947- author.

GUSN: 361471

Call Number: Stacks F74.N802 M67 2022 c.1 (and 1 more)

The most costly journey :stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists /edited by Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Teresa Mares, Andy Kolovos.

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that emplo...

Creators: Bennett, Marek, editor, artist. Doucet, Julia Grand, editor, writer of preface. Mares, Teresa M., 1978- editor, writer of afterword. Kolovos, Andy, editor, writer of afterword. Bissette, Stephen, writer of introduction. Alvarez, Julia, writer of foreword. Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, University of Vermont Extension, University of Vermont. Department of Anthropology, Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop,

GUSN: 361502

Call Number: Stacks HD8081.M6 V53 2021

Craft :an American history /Glenn Adamson.

387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher., Examine any phase of our nation's struggle...

Creators: Adamson, Glenn, author.

GUSN: 361503

Call Number: Stacks TT23.A33 2021

Gund Partnership /introduction by Paul Goldberger ; [edited by Christa Mahar].

288 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm, "This book details the Modern architectural work of American architectual firm Gund Partnership between the years of 1994 and 2007. The principal of the firm is Graham Gund, a well known and respected American architect working in the Modernist traditi...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Goldberger, Paul. Mahar, Christa.

GUSN: 361504

Call Number: Stacks NA737.G83 A4 2008

Yale University Art Gallery bulletin.

volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: [1965]-

Creators: Yale University. Art Gallery. Associates. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 361505

Call Number: Coll N10.Y3 2002

The Big Dig at night /by Dan McNichol ; photographs by Stephen SetteDucati.

127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Spectacular photographs of Boston's Big Dig at night--and an inside account of what goes on while the city sleeps."

Date: Ã2001.

Creators: McNichol, Dan. SetteDucati, Stephen. Massachusetts. Department of Public Works.

GUSN: 361506

Call Number: Stacks TE25.B72 .M415 2001

American passage :the communications frontier in early New England /Katherine Grandjean.

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of l...

Creators: Grandjean, Katherine, 1977-

GUSN: 361507

Call Number: Stacks F7.G736 2015

Buried in shades of night :contested voices, Indian captivity, and the legacy of King Philip's war /Billy J. Stratton ; foreword by Frances Washburn ; afterword by George E. Tinker.

xvi, 203 pages ; 24 cm, "Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase M...

Creators: Stratton, Billy J., 1970-

GUSN: 361508

Call Number: Stacks E87.R8 S77 2013

Brethren by nature :New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery /Margaret Ellen Newell.

xi, 316 pages ; 25 cm, "In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shap...

Creators: Newell, Margaret Ellen, 1962- author.

GUSN: 361509

Call Number: Stacks E98.S6 N49 2015

A storm of witchcraft :the Salem trials and the American experience /Emerson W. Baker.

xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort thei...

Creators: Baker, Emerson W., author.

GUSN: 361510

Call Number: Stacks KFM2478.8.W5 B35 2015

Unfreedom :slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston /Jared Ross Hardesty.

xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of ...

Creators: Hardesty, Jared, author.

GUSN: 361511

Call Number: Stacks F73.4 .H37 2016

Paths, tracks, and trails :designing for pedestrians and cyclists /edited by Paolo Ceccon & Laura Zampieri.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm, Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growing demand for the construction of pedestrian and cyclist paths internationally, and i...

Creators: Ceccon, Paolo, editor. Zampieri, Laura (Architect), editor.

GUSN: 361512

Call Number: Stacks NA9074.P38 2016

Green space in the community /edited by Steffan Robel.

248 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "Public Green Space in the Community refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important...

Creators: Robel, Steffan, 1972- editor.

GUSN: 361513

Call Number: Stacks SB472.45 .G74 2016

American ceramics now /Twenty-seventh Ceramic National Exhibition ; [editor of catalogue, Thomas Piché, Jr.].

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 1987.

Creators: Piché, Thomas. Everson Museum of Art. Ceramic National Exhibition (27th : 1987 : Everson Museum of Art)

GUSN: 361514

Call Number: Coll NK4008.C468 1987

Creations in clay :contemporary New England ceramics /[foreword by Susan Strickler ; introduction by Gillian Nagler ; essay by Gerry Williams.

40 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 2004.

Creators: Strickler, Susan E. Nagler, Gillian. Williams, Gerald, 1926-2014. Currier Museum of Art.

GUSN: 361515

Call Number: Coll NK4008.C74 2004

A spectacle in motion :the grand panorama of a whaling voyage 'round the world.

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 28 cm, "This two-volume publication dives into the detail and narrative of the Panorama and allows people to quite literally hold the entire artwork in the palm of their hands. A maritime artwork of national historical importance, the Panorama is a fi...

Creators: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885, artist. Purrington, Caleb, 1812-1876, artist. New Bedford Whaling Museum,

GUSN: 361530

Call Number: Stacks G545.S64 2018

American furniture 2018 /edited by Luke Beckerdite.

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Beckerdite, Luke, editor. Chipstone Foundation,

GUSN: 361531

Call Number: Coll NK2405.A6 2019

Dining out in Boston :a culinary history /James C. O'Connell.

304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Over the years, Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O'Connell, in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinar...

Creators: O'Connell, James C., author.

GUSN: 359343

Call Number: Stacks GT2853.U5 O25 2017

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