Historic New England

Brilliant beacons :a history of the American lighthouse /Eric Jay Dolin.

xv, 541 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm, A history of America as reflected by the nation's lighthouses combines maritime lore with original details to trace coastal political, military, and technological expansions, citing the roles of key contributors.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay, author.

GUSN: 332466

Call Number: Stacks VK1023

The Mediterranean house in America /Lauren Weiss Bricker ; photography by Juergen Nogai.

239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm, Inspired by the romance of Italian villas, Spanish farmhouses, and Moorish courtyards, the Mediterranean Revival style became an archetype for sophisticated suburban homes throughout America in the early 20th century.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Bricker, Lauren Weiss.

GUSN: 332467

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.B73 2008

Soldier, engraver, forger :Richard Brunton's life on the fringe in America's new republic /Deborah M. Child.

xii, 123 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm, "In this richly illustrated biography, the author follows in the footsteps of Richard Brunton, a British grenadier who fought in the American Revolution before deserting in 1779. A trained engraver and diesinker, his primitive but charming works include ...

Creators: Child, Deborah M., author.

GUSN: 332525

Call Number: Stacks HD8039.E62 U53 2015

Sadie's Winter Dream :Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs 1923-1938 /an Essential Historical Record by Judith Burger-Gossart.

121 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color) ; 18 x 26 cm

Creators: Burger-Gossart, Judith, author.

GUSN: 332526

Call Number: Coll TT850.B874 2015

Rich and tasty :Vermont furniture to 1850 /Jean M. Burks, Philip Zea.

177 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm

Creators: Burks, Jean M., 1949- author. Zea, Philip, author. Denenberg, Thomas Andrew, 1967- writer of foreword.

GUSN: 332527

Call Number: Coll NK2435.V4 B87 2015

Isaiah Rogers :architectural practice in antebellum America /James F. O'Gorman ; research by Denys Peter Myers and James F. O'Gorman ; foreword by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.

xvii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Creators: O'Gorman, James F., author. Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948- writer of foreword.

GUSN: 332528

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R585 5 O49 2015

The National Capitol :its architecture, art, and history /by George C. Hazelton, Jr.

301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1902.

Creators: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921.

GUSN: 332652

Call Number: Stacks F204.C2 H42

Igniting the American Revolution :1773-1775 /Derek W. Beck.

xi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, Examines the years leading up to the Declaration of Independence, looking at the perspectives, ambitions, people, and events on both the British and the American sides that eventually would lead to revolution.

Creators: Beck, Derek W., author.

GUSN: 332653

Call Number: Stacks E210.B39 2015

Around Portsmouth in the Victorian era :the photography of the Davis brothers /James Dolph and Ronan Donohoe.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Dolph, James. Donohoe, Ronan. Davis, Lewis Gilman, 1833-1909. Davis, Charles, 1835 or 1836-1911.

GUSN: 333141

Call Number: Stacks F44.

Victorian Hartford /Tomas J. Nenortas.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Nenortas, Tomas J.

GUSN: 333142

Call Number: Stacks F104. H3 N46 2005

Sullivan's Corner :the last years of the farm /Thomas Clasby.

pages : illustrations, maps ; cm

Creators: Clasby, Thomas, author.

GUSN: 333143

Call Number: Stacks S521.5.M4 C53 2017

The Darlings of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom /Harriet Fletcher Fisher.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2008.

Creators: Fisher, Harriet F.

GUSN: 333144

Call Number: Stacks F59. B89 F57 2008

Beauty, strength, speed :celebrating 100 years of Thomas W. Lawson's Dreamwold /by Carol Miles and John J. Galluzzo.

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 26 cm

Date: Ã2002.

Creators: Miles, Carol, 1932- Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 333147

Call Number: 85M Stacks HG172. L39 M55 2002

Fred Whipple's empire :the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1955-1973 /David H. DeVorkin.

xvii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., This book explores how and why the Smithsonian Institution closed its Astrophysical Observatory in Washington, D.C. in 1955 and moved it as a budget line to Harvard first as a department of the Harvard College Observatory and then as the dominant partner. I ...

Creators: DeVorkin, David H., 1944- author. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 333148

Call Number: Stacks QB82. U62 S62 2018

Palaces for the people :how social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life /Eric Klinenberg.

277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries...

Creators: Klinenberg, Eric, author.

GUSN: 333516

Call Number: Stacks HC79.C3.K55 2018

American furniture :1650 to the present /Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

xvi, 621 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, This authoritative text explains the evolution of four centuries of American furniture from 1650 to the 21st century. It is the complete story covering the cultural and historical context of pieces and advice on how ...

Creators: Fitzgerald, Oscar P., author.

GUSN: 333517

Call Number: Stacks NK2405.F58 2018

The Philosophy Chamber :Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820 /edited by Ethan W. Lasser.

xxiv, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photograhs, plates ; 31 cm

Creators: Lasser, Ethan W., editor.

GUSN: 333518

Call Number: Coll LD2155.P49 2017

Darlings of dress :children's costume 1860-1920 /Norma Shephard.

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, "This nostalgic look at children's costume, from 1860 to 1920, reveals diverse cultural influences on its manufacture and design. More than 300 historic photographs, fashion plates, and selections from vintage catalogs and magazines, plus 115 color ima...

Creators: Shephard, Norma, author.

GUSN: 333519

Call Number: Stacks GT1730.S45 2017 (and 1 more)

East of the Mississippi :nineteenth-century American landscape photography /Diane Waggoner with Russell Lord and Jennifer Raab.

xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm, This important reconsideration of landscape photography in nineteenth-century America explores crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes. Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of nineteenth-century American landscape pho...

Creators: Waggoner, Diane. Photographing the Eastern landscape, 1839-1900. Lord, Russell. Interested landscape. Raab, Jennifer. Landscape across media. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), New Orleans Museum of Art, Yale University Press,

GUSN: 333524

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR660.E29 2017

American harmony :inspired choral miniatures from New England, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Midwest /compiled, edited, and introduced by Nym Cooke.

2 volumes (xxi, 439 pages) ; 25 x 31 cm, in slipcase 25 x 31 x 5 cm + 1 audio disc (digital; 4 3/4 in.)

Creators: Belcher, Supply, 1751-1836, composer. Morgan, Justin, 1747-1798, composer. Stone, Joseph, 1758-1837, composer. Billings, William, 1746-1800, composer. Moors, Hezekiah, 1775-1814, composer. Ingalls, Jeremiah, 1764-1838, composer. Benham, Asahel, 1754-1803, composer. Maxim, Abraham, 1773-1829, composer. Child, Ebenezer, 1770-1866, composer. Wood, Abraham, 1752-1804, composer. Hill, Uri K. (Uri Keeler), 1780-1844, composer. Sanger, Zedekiah, 1748-1820, composer. Read, Daniel, 1757-1836, composer. Swan, Timothy, 1758-1842, composer. Doolittle, Eliakim, 1772-1850, composer. Belknap, Daniel, 1771-1815, composer. Janes, Walter, 1778-1827, composer. Holden, Oliver, 1765-1844, compser. Jenks, Stephen, 1772-1856, composer. Coan, Simeon composer West, Elisha, 1756-1832? composer. Robbins, Charles, 1782-1842, composer. Billings, Nathaniel, 1768-1853, composer. Edson, Lewis, 1748-1820, composer. French, Jacob, 1754-1817, composer. Bushnell, John composer Kimball, Jacob, 1761-1826, composer. Leslie, Benjamin, composer. Holyoke, Samuel, 1762-1820, composer. Brownson, Oliver, 1746-1815, composer. Walker, William, 1809-1875, compsoer. Chute, William Edward composer Dare, Elkanah Kelsay, composer Houston, Seth, composer Bruce, Neely, composer. Reese, John Palmer, composer Randall, Bruce, composer Davisson, Ananias, 1780-1857, composer. Malone, Thomas B., 1975- composer. Breedlove, Leonard P., composer Carrell, James P., 1787-1854, composer. Cooke, Nym, 1950- composer, conductor. Denson, Paine, 1882-1955, composer. Chapin, Amzi, composer Durham, Matilda T., composer Caudill, William, composer. Cagle, A. M. (A. Marcus), 1884-1968, composer. Quick, Jeffrey, 1956- composer.

GUSN: 333525

Call Number: ML3111.A44 2017

A meeting of land and sea :nature and the future of Martha's Vineyard /David R. Foster ; illustrations by Brian R. Hall ; photograhy by David R. Foster.

xv, 336 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 23 x 27 cm, "Two decades of research by Foster and his colleagues at the Harvard Forest encompass the native people and prehistory of the Vineyard, climate change and coastal dynamics, colonial farming and modern tourism, and land planning ...

Creators: Foster, David R., 1954- author, photographer. Hall, Brian R., illustrator.

GUSN: 333526

Call Number: Stacks QH105.M4 F67 2017

Eye of the beholder :masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum /edited by Alan Chong, Richard Lingner, Carl Zahn.

xxiii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, "During her lifetime, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was at the heart of Boston's liveliest salon. Artists and thinkers gathered at Fenway Court around works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. One hundred yea...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Chong, Alan, 1957- Lingner, Richard. Zahn, Carl. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

GUSN: 333527

Call Number: 85M Stacks N521.I7 I8 2003

Playing soldier :the books and toys that prepared children for war, 1871-1918 /Richard Cheek.

471 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm., Massive and brilliantly-illustrated, 'Playing Soldier' is a comprehensive survey of the books, printed ephemera, and toys relating to military life and wartime experience that were published or produced for children and teens during two consecutive but dramaticall...

Creators: Cheek, Richard, author, collector. Sedykh, Julia, book designer. Puritan Capital (Printing firm), Superior Packaging and Finishing, Grolier Club.

GUSN: 357434

Call Number: Stacks Lg PN1009.5.P64.C44 2018

Worn on this day :the clothes that made history /Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.

xi, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Chrisman-Campbell looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries. She offers capsule fashion histories of everything from space suits to wedding gowns, Olympics uniforms, and ar...

Creators: Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly, author.

GUSN: 357435

Call Number: Coll GT511.C49 2019

The iconic jersey :baseball x fashion /by Erin R. Corrales-Diaz.

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion explores the design and aesthetics of the iconic baseball jersey both on and off the baseball field. Featuring over 35 historic and contemporary jerseys and baseball-inspired fashion, this ground-breaking volum...

Creators: Corrales-Diaz, Erin R., author, curator. Worcester Art Museum,

GUSN: 357436

Call Number: Stacks GV867.3.C67 2021

Dressing up :the women who influenced French fashion /Elizabeth L. Block.

282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm, "A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Block, Elizabeth L., author.

GUSN: 357437

Call Number: Coll GT610.B56 2021

The Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright /Lisa D. Schrenk.

xiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, "Lisa Schrenk offers a detailed assessment of Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in Oak Park, Illinois. She focuses on the educational atmosphere of Wright's office in the context of his developing design ideology, revealing three phases as Wright transitioned from ...

Creators: Schrenk, Lisa Diane, author.

GUSN: 357447

Call Number: Stacks NA737.W7 S294 2021

How football became football :150 years of the game's evolution /Timothy P. Brown.

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, How Football Became Football traces football's evolution from a version of rugby played before a handful of friends to a spectacle played in packed stadiums before television audiences of 100 million or more. Organized by era, How Football Became Football show...

Creators: Brown, Timothy P. (Timothy Patrick)

GUSN: 357448

Call Number: Stacks GV950.B76 2020

Turbulent years in Chelsea :documenting life in the '70s and '80s /Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek.

142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Jarmak, Arnie, photographer. Resnek, Joshua, author.

GUSN: 357449

Call Number: Stacks F74.C5 J37 2020

A story of Maine in 112 objects: from prehistory to modern times /edited by Bernard P. Fishman, Director, Maine State Museum ; published in association with the Maine State Museum.

448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm, "This groundbreaking book features 112 essays and hundreds of photographs that highlight the best of the museum's collections - ranging from a walrus skull to a woman's World War II welding outfit. Included as well is the fascinating story of the museum itsel...

Creators: Fishman, Bernard P., editor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357450

Call Number: Stacks F21.S76 2018

Connecticut architecture :stories of 100 places /Christopher Wigren, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Creators: Wigren, Christopher, author.

GUSN: 357451

Call Number: Stacks NA730.C8 W54 2019

The atlas of Boston history /edited by Nancy S. Seasholes.

x, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 37 cm

Creators: Seasholes, Nancy S., editor.

GUSN: 357452

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.3.A853 2019 (and 1 more)

The paintings of J.O.J. Frost :an American story /by Bethe Lee Moulton.

xiii, 159 pages : illustrations; maps ; 24 x 27 cm

Creators: Moulton, Bethe Lee, author. Moulton, Priscilla L., dedicatee.

GUSN: 357453

Call Number: Coll ND237.F767 M68 2019 (and 1 more)

Treasures afoot :shoe stories from the Georgian era /Kimberly S. Alexander.

x, 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm, In 'Treasures Afoot', Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fort...

Creators: Alexander, Kimberly S., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357454

Call Number: Stacks TS1000.A376 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

Summer suffragists :woman suffrage activists in Scituate, Massachusetts /Lyle Nyberg.

272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Scituate, Massachusetts, was the summer home of a surprising number of nationally recognized leaders of the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote. Why did they stay there, and how did they fight for the vote? These questions are addressed in this book....

Creators: Nyberg, Lyle, author.

GUSN: 357729

Call Number: JK1911 M4 N83 2020

Maine quilts :250 years of comfort and community /Laureen A. LaBar ; with essays by Lynne Z. Bassett and Pamela Weeks.

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "The history of quilting in Maine is a story of community and Maine State Museum curator Laurie LaBar coaxes stories out of objects and uses those stories to enlighten, entertain, and to bring new voices to Maine history"-- Provided by publishe...

Creators: LaBar, Laureen A., author. Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961- contributor. Weeks, Pamela, contributor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357733

Call Number: Stacks NK9112 L27 2021 c1 (and 1 more)

Joseph Hodges Choate;memorial addresses delivered before the Century association, January 19, 1918.

56 pages 2 portrait (including frontispiece) 23 cm

Date: 1918.

Creators: Century Association (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 357735

Call Number: Stacks KF373 C4 C4

Silk stocking mats :hooked mats of the Grenfell Mission /Paula Laverty.

x, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hook...

Date: 2005.

Creators: Laverty, Paula.

GUSN: 357737

Call Number: Coll NK2813 A3 N47 2005

Lost Wonderland :the brief and brilliant life of Boston's million dollar amusement park /Stephen R. Wilk.

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby-the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened ...

Creators: Wilk, Stephen R., author.

GUSN: 357739

Call Number: Stacks GV1853.3 M42 W668 2020

The world of Plymouth Plantation /Carla Gardina Pestana.

viii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a...

Creators: Pestana, Carla Gardina, author.

GUSN: 357741

Call Number: Stacks F68 P395 2020

The truth about baked beans :an edible history of New England /Meg Muckenhoupt.

345 pages ; 24 cm, ""The Truth about Baked Beans" is an edible history of New England"-- Provided by publisher., Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learne...

Creators: Muckenhoupt, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 357753

Call Number: Stacks TX715.2 N48 M83 2020

Forever struggle :activism, identity, & survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018 /Michael Liu.

xii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm, "Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the...

Creators: Liu, Michael, 1948- author.

GUSN: 357755

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.C5 L58 2020

Inventing Boston :design, production, and consumption /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

viii, 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and ...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 357778

Call Number: Stacks NK838.B67 C665 2019

The greatest beach :a history of the Cape Cod National Seashore /Ethan Carr.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author.

GUSN: 357779

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 C37 2019

Joiner's work /by Peter Follansbee.

xiv, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It's neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors--all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and mortise-and-tenon joints. Peter F...

Creators: Follansbee, Peter, author.

GUSN: 357780

Call Number: Coll TT195.F65 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Shaker vision :seeing beauty in early America /Joseph Manca.

x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm, "The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual ...

Creators: Manca, Joseph, 1956- author.

GUSN: 357781

Call Number: Stacks BX9789.A47 M36 2019

Votes for women! :a portrait of persistence /Kate Clarke Lemay ; with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault.

xi, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, map ; 28 cm, "Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Int...

Creators: Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978- author. Goodier, Susan, author. Jones, Martha S., author. Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite), author. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution),

GUSN: 357786

Call Number: Stacks KF4895.L46 2019

Newport :the artful city /John R. Tschirch.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 25 cm, This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists ...

Creators: Tschirch, John R., author.

GUSN: 357788

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T73 2020

Rather elegant than showy :the classical furniture of Isaac Vose /Robert D. Mussey Jr., Clark Pearce.

x, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 x 25 cm, "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served ...

Creators: Mussey, Robert D., author. Pearce, Clark, author.

GUSN: 357791

Call Number: Coll NK2439.V37 M87 2018 (and 1 more)

The new Bostonians :how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s /Marilynn S. Johnson.

xii, 291 pages ; 23 cm, In The New Bostonians, Marilynn S. Johnson examines the historical confluence of recent immigration and urban transformation in greater Boston, a region that underwent dramatic decline after World War II. Since the 1980s, the Boston area has experienced an astounding renaissa...

Creators: Johnson, Marilynn S.

GUSN: 359488

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.A1 J64 2015

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