Historic New England

Preservation and conservation : principles and practices : proceedings of the North American International Regional Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10-16, 1972 : conducted under the auspices of the International Centre for Conservation, Rome, Italy and the International Centre Committee of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation / edited by Sharon Timmons.

xxi, 547 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Timmons, Sharon. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property. United States. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. International Centre Committee. North American International Regional Conference (1972 : Williamsburg, Va. and Philadelphia, Pa.)

GUSN: 150663

Call Number: Stacks CC135.N67 1972

Preserving a heritage; final report to the President and Congress.

xii, 196 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: National Parks Centennial Commission.

GUSN: 150664

Call Number: Stacks SB482.A3 1973

The restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

[355]-458 p. incl. illus. (part col.; incl. ports., plans, facsim.) plates. 31 x 23 cm.

Date: c1935.

Creators: Lincoln, F. S. (Fay Sturtevant), 1894- Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955. Perry, William Graves, 1883- Shurcliff, Arthur Asahel, 1870- Nash, Susan Higginson.

GUSN: 150665

Call Number: Stacks NA753.W5 A7

Built to last : a handbook on recycling old buildings / prepared by the Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs, Office of Local Assistance ; Gene Bunnell, associate planner.

125 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Bunnell, Gene, 1944- Massachusetts. Office of Local Assistance.

GUSN: 150666

Call Number: Stacks TH3411.M27 1977 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Something to preserve : a report on historic preservation by the acquisition of protective agreements on buildings in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

[14] 111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Ipswich Historical Commission. United States. Office of Community Planning and Development.

GUSN: 150667

Call Number: Stacks NA108.I6.I6

Colonial Williamsburg, its buildings and gardens; a study of Virginia's restored capital / by A. Lawrence Kocher and Howard Dearstyne.

vii, 104 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: [1949]

Creators: Kocher, A. Lawrence (Alfred Lawrence) Dearstyne, Howard.

GUSN: 150668

Call Number: Stacks F234.W7 K6

Mount Vernon and its preservation, 1858-1910 : the acquisition, restoration, and care of the home of Washington by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union for over half a century / Thomas Nelson Page.

viii, 84 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1932.

Creators: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.

GUSN: 150669

Call Number: Stacks E312.5.P13 1932

Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum.

247 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.

GUSN: 150670

Call Number: Stacks E161.E3 1972

Interpreting our heritage : principles and practices for visitor services in parks, museums, and historic places.

110 p. : ill. ' 24 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Tilden, Freeman, 1883-

GUSN: 150671

Call Number: Stacks E175.8.T67

The living past of America : pictorial treasury of our historic houses and villages that have been preserved and restored.

234 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1964.

Creators: Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1898-

GUSN: 150672

Call Number: Stacks E159.V35 1964

A Cabinet of curiosities : five episodes in the evolution of American museums / described by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. [and others] With an introd. by Walter Muir Whitehill.

xii, 166 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks)

GUSN: 150673

Call Number: Stacks AM11.C3

Introduction to museum work / G. Ellis Burcaw.

vi, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: Burcaw, George Ellis, 1921-

GUSN: 150674

Call Number: Stacks AM5.B88

Addresses on the occasion of the opening of the American wing.

5 p. ¾., 3-33, [1] p., 1 ¾ ; 25 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 150675

Call Number: Stacks N610.N4

Land use and the States / Robert G. Healy.

xi, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Healy, Robert G. Resources for the Future.

GUSN: 150676

Call Number: Stacks HD205 1976.H4

America's museums; the Belmont report. A report to the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

xviii, 81 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1968 [i.e. 1969]

Creators: American Association of Museums. Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

GUSN: 150677

Call Number: Stacks AM11.A58

Triumph on Fairmount : Fiske Kimball and the Philadelphia Museum of Art / by George and Mary Roberts.

321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1959]

Creators: Roberts, George, June 26, 1900- Roberts, Mary Howland.

GUSN: 150678

Call Number: Stacks N8375.K5 R6

Special cataloguing : with particular reference to music, films, maps, serials, and the multi-media computerised catalogue / by John Horner.

327 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Horner, John Leonard, 1926-

GUSN: 150679

Call Number: Stacks Z693.H67

Report on Project history retrieval : tests and demonstrations of an optic-coincidence system of information retrieval for historical materials / Elizabeth Ingerman Wood.

xiii, 123 p. (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1966]

Creators: Wood, Elizabeth Ingerman. Drexel Institute of Technology. Graduate School of Library Science. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 150680

Call Number: Stacks Z674.D7 no. 14

Interpretation of historic sites / William T. Alderson, Shirley Payne Low.

x, 189 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Alderson, William T. (William Thomas), 1926- Low, Shirley Payne.

GUSN: 150681

Call Number: Stacks E159.A36 c.1 (and 2 more)

A primer for local historical societies / by Dorothy Weyer Creigh.

ix, 153 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Creigh, Dorothy Weyer. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 150682

Call Number: Stacks E172.C783

Law and the visual arts / edited by Leonard D. DuBoff and Mary Ann Crawford DuBoff.

359 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1974]

Creators: DuBoff, Leonard D., ed. DuBoff, Mary Ann Crawford, ed. Northwestern School of Law. Law and the Visual Arts Conference, 1974. Portland, Or.,

GUSN: 150683

Call Number: Stacks KF4288.A75 L38 1974

Application of science in examination of works of art : proceedings of the seminar, September 7-9, 1965.

254 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Research Laboratory.

GUSN: 150684

Call Number: Stacks N8558.A674 1965

Life is a local story; a collection of talks concerning local history, historic sites and history museums, edited by Clement M. Silvestro.

85 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1964]

Creators: Silvestro, Clement M. ed. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 150685

Call Number: Stacks E175.1.A5

The English dictionarie of 1623 / by Henry Cockeram ; with a prefatory note by Chauncey Brewster Tinker.

xxi, 196, [2] p., [1] double leaf of plates : facsim. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1930-

Creators: Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650. Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963.

GUSN: 150686

Call Number: Stacks PE1620.C65 1930

Glossary of supposed Americanisms / collected by Alfred L. Elwyn.

xi, 122 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, 1804-1884.

GUSN: 150687

Call Number: 85M Stacks PE2835.E5

The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States / by H. L. Mencken ; the fourth edition and the two supplements, abridged, with annotations and new material, by Raven I. McDavid, Jr., with the assistance of David W. Maurer.

xxv, 777, cxxiv p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1977, c1963.

Creators: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. McDavid, Raven Ioor.

GUSN: 150688

Call Number: Stacks PE2808.M43 1977

A critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the English language ... : to which are prefixed principles of English pronunciation ... Likewise, rules to be observed by the natives of Scotland, Ireland and London, for avoiding their respective peculiarities, and directions to foreigners, for acquiring a knowledge of the use of this dictionary ... To which is annexed a key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture proper names, &c. By John Walker.

71, 609, 8, [8]-11, [13]-103 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1827.

Creators: Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150689

Call Number: Rare PE1620.W3 1827 (and 1 more)

A new gazetteer of the United States of America : containing a copious description of the states, territories, counties, parishes, districts, cities and towns, mountains, lakes, rivers and canals, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and the arts generally, of the United States; embracing also the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of the principal subdivisions, the latitude and longitude of cities and towns, and their bearing and distance from important places; including other interesting and valuable geographical, historical, political, and statistical information : with the population of 1830 / by William Darby and Theodore Dwight, Jr.

iv p., p. [9]-630 ; 24 cm.

Date: 1833, c1832.

Creators: Darby, William, 1775-1854. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866.

GUSN: 150690

Call Number: Stacks E154.N49 1833

A new gazetteer of the United States of America : containing a copious description of the states, territories, counties, parishes, districts, cities and towns, mountains, lakes, rivers and canals, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and the arts generally, of the United States; embracing also the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of the principal subdivisions, the latitude and longitude of cities and towns, and their bearing and distance from important places; including other interesting and valuable geographical, historical, political, and statistical information : with the population of 1830 / by William Darby and Theodore Dwight, Jr.

iv p., p. [9]-630 ; 24 cm.

Date: 1833, c1832.

Creators: Darby, William, 1775-1854. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866.

GUSN: 150691

Call Number: Stacks E154.N49 1833

A new and complete statistical gazetteer of the United States of America : founded on and compiled from official federal and state returns, and the seventh national census / by Richard Swainson Fisher.

960 p. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1858.

Creators: Fisher, Richard Swainson.

GUSN: 150692

Call Number: Stacks E154.F53 1858

A complete descriptive and statistical gazetteer of the United States of America ... with an abstract of the census and statistics for 1840, exhibiting a complete view of the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, and literary condition and resources of the country. By Daniel Haskel ... and J. Calvin Smith ...

752 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Haskel, Daniel, 1784-1848, comp. Smith, John Calvin.

GUSN: 150693

Call Number: Stacks E154.H33

Burley's United States centennial gazetteer and guide, 1876 : containing plans of the Centennial buildings and grounds ... / Charles Holland Kidder, editor.

892 p. : ill. cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Kidder, Charles Holland. Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

GUSN: 150694

Call Number: Stacks E158.B96

Gazetteer of Hampshire County, Mass., 1654-1887 / compiled and edited by W.B. Gay.

312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [18--?].

Creators: Gay, W. B. (William Burton).

GUSN: 150695

Call Number: Stacks F72.H3 G2 1800z

The New England gazetteer; containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England; also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers, lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged / by John Hayward.

[510] p : ill., plates ; 21 cm.

Date: 1839.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150696

Call Number: Rare F2.H434 1839 c.1 (and 1 more)

The New England gazetteer : containing descriptions of all the states, counties, and towns in New England : also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers, lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts within that territory : alphabetically arranged / by John Hayward ...

[516], [5]-16 p. (first p. blank); 8 ill. (wood engravings) ; 20 cm. (12 mo. in 6s)

Date: 1841

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150697

Call Number: Stacks F2.H45

A gazetteer of Massachusetts, containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and districts in the commonwealth : also, of its principal mountains, rivers, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts. To which are added, statistical accounts of its agriculture, commerce and manufactures; with a great variety of other useful information.

452, 4 p. : ill, plates ; 20 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150698

Call Number: Stacks F62.H42 1849

The Columbian traveller, and statistical register. Principally relating to the United States. November, 1833.

40 p. 4 maps. 27 cm.

Date: [1833]

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150699

Call Number: Stacks E165.H42

A gazetteer of the United States of America ... to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States. By John Hayward ...

861 p. incl. illus., tables. port., fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862, comp.

GUSN: 150700

Call Number: Stacks E154.H45

The American gazetteer, exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given of the states, provinces, counties, cities [etc. etc.] on the American continent, also of the West-India Islands ... : describing the extent, boundaries, population, government, [etc. etc.] of the several countries, and of their important civil divisions ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western territory ... / collected and compiled ... by ... Jedidiah Morse ... Pub. according to an act of Congress.

1 v. (unpaged) : 7 fold. maps (incl. front.) ; 22 cm.

Date: 1797.

Creators: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826. Parish, Elijah, 1762-1825.

GUSN: 150701

Call Number: Stacks E14.M84 1797

A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; with numerous illustrations on wood and steel. By the Rev. Elias Nason.

576 p. front. illus., pl., ports., fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1874.

Creators: Nason, Elias, 1811-1887.

GUSN: 150702

Call Number: Stacks F62.N26

The New England gazetteer ... 1902.

1637-1828 p. : ill., fold. map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1902.

GUSN: 150703

Call Number: Stacks F2.N54

A historical and statistical gazetteer of Massachusetts : with sketches of the principal events from its settlement, a catalogue of prominent characters, and historical and statistical notices of the several cities and towns / Jeremiah Spofford.

iv, 372 p. : fold. map ; 19 cm.

Date: 1860.

Creators: Spofford, Jeremiah, 1787-1880. Spofford, Jeremiah, 1787-1880. Gazetteer of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 150704

Call Number: Stacks F62.S664 1860

A geographical dictionary, or universal gazetteer; ancient and modern ... By J.E. Worcester, A.M.

2 v. 23 cm.

Date: 1817.

Creators: Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865.

GUSN: 150705

Call Number: Stacks G102.W92 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The retail clothier's advertiser / by Willis H. Peters.

v. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Creators: Peters, Willis H. (Willis Howard), 1853-

GUSN: 150706

Call Number: Stacks HF6161.C44 P48

Centennial of the Bulfinch State House. Exercises before the Massachusetts legislature, January 11, 1898.

74 p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Massachusetts. General Court.

GUSN: 150707

Call Number: Stacks F73.8.S8 M41

Poets and poetry of Vermont. Edited by Abby Maria Hemenway.

xi, 400 p. illus. 19.3 cm.

Date: 1858.

Creators: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890.

GUSN: 150708

Call Number: Stacks PS548.V4 H4 1858

Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and his descendants. Comp. by Julia Edgar Thacher. Priv. print.

136 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Thacher, Julia Edgar.

GUSN: 150709

Call Number: Stacks CS71.G78 1914

King's handbook of Boston Harbor / by M. F. Sweetser. [Illustrated by Charles Copeland and others]

x, 276, xi-xxix p. : ill. (some col.) plates ; 21 cm.

Date: 1883.

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897. Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929.

GUSN: 150710

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.63.S9 1883

Gardiner & Bostonians : 55 years of progress.

[57] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1949]

Creators: Gardiner (Me.). Board of Trade.

GUSN: 150711

Call Number: Stacks F29.G37 G37

Life of John Quincy Adams : sixth President of the United States / William H. Seward.

404 p. : port. ; 20 cm.

Date: [189-?]

Creators: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872.

GUSN: 150712

Call Number: Stacks E377.S51 1890z

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