Historic New England

Loud, naked & in three colors :the Liberty boys & the history of tattooing in Boston /Derin Bray, Margaret Hodges.

160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Bray, Derin, author. Hodges, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 359999

Call Number: Stacks GT5960.T362 B67 2020

The Library of Congress :the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building /edited by John Y. Cole and Henry Hope Reed ; with essays by John Y. Cole [and others] ; preface by Arthur Ross ; foreword by James H. Billington ; introductions by Daniel Boorstin and Brendan Gill ; principal photography by Anne Day.

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (now known as the Jefferson Building) reached its 100th anniversary in 1997 after an eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its origi...

Creators: Cole, John Young, 1940- editor. Reed, Henry Hope, editor. Small, Herbert. Library of Congress, its architecture and decoration.

GUSN: 360000

Call Number: Stacks Z733.U6 L55 1997

The architects' and builders' hand-book.

pages cm

Date: 1921.

Creators: Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905. Nolan, Thomas, 1857-1926.

GUSN: 360012

Call Number: Rare TH151 K5 1921

Floating west :antique Japanese tattoo flash from the collection of Nick York /by Nick York.

pages : illustrations, photographs ; cm

Creators: York, Nick, author.

GUSN: 360013

Call Number: Stacks GT2346.J3 Y67 2021

Walter Gropius :an illustrated biography /Leyla Daybelge, Magnus Englund.

319 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Daybelge, Leyla, author. Englund, Magnus, author. Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Works.

GUSN: 360014

Call Number: Stacks NA1088.G85 E54 2022 c.1 (and 1 more)

Planning your home wisely! /by Royal Barry Wills.

95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1946.

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360015

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.W54 1946

Lost examples of colonial architecture :buildings that have disappeared or been so altered as to be denatured /by John Mead Howells ; with an introduction by Fiske Kimball.

260 pages, 244 pages of plates : illustrations 28 cm

Creators: Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959, author.

GUSN: 360016

Call Number: Stacks NA707.H75 1963

The life and letters of George Bancroft,by M.A. De Wolfe Howe ...

2 volumes 6 portraits (including frontispieces) 22 cm, George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he...

Date: 1908.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. Strippel, Henry C.

GUSN: 360017

Call Number: Stacks E340.B2 H8 v.1 (and 1 more)

Candle days;the story of early American arts and implements,by Marion Nicholl Rawson.

xvi, 307 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm

Date: [Ã1927]

Creators: Rawson, Marion Nicholl, 1878-1956.

GUSN: 360727

Call Number: E161.R26

The Spalding memorial :a genealogical history of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay and his descendants ; with a record of their military service in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars ; together with information concerning various other branches of the Spalding family /by Charles Warren Spalding.

xvi, 1308 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Date: 1996.

Creators: Spalding, Charles Warren, 1843-

GUSN: 360728

Call Number: CS71.S739 1996

Little gardens for boys and girls,by Myrta Margaret Higgins.

vii, 152 pages illustrations, plates 20 cm

Date: 1910.

Creators: Higgins, Myrta Margaret.

GUSN: 360729

Call Number: SB457.H6 1910

Lost Springfield, Massachusetts /Derek Strahan.

158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "At the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Armory opened in Springfield, spurring rapid growth. With that golden age of progress came iconic buildings and landmarks that are now lost to time. Railroads brought workers eager to fill Springfield's factories and ...

Creators: Strahan, Derek, author.

GUSN: 360730

Call Number: F74.S8 S95 2017

A memorial of the life and benefactions of Mary Hemenway, 1820-1894.

[10], 74 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Date: 1927.

Creators: Tileston, Mary Wilder, 1843-1934.

GUSN: 360731

Call Number: CT240.H48 M5 1927

Countering illicit traffic in cultural goods :the global challenge of protecting the world's heritage /edited by France Desmarais.

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Desmarais, France, 1956- International Council of Museums.

GUSN: 360732

Call Number: CC135.C68 2015

Building Stata :the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT /Nancy E. Joyce ; commentary by Frank O. Gehry ; photographs by Richard M. Sobol.

xxi, 137 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 x 28 cm, "This illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the in...

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Joyce, Nancy (Nancy Eleanor) Gehry, Frank O., 1929-

GUSN: 360733

Call Number: T171.M8195 J69 2004

Rough point :the Newport home of Doris Duke /written by A. Bruce MacLeish and Pieter N. Roos.

52 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: MacLeish, A. Bruce. Helms, Cheryl, donor. Roos, Pieter N.

GUSN: 360734

Call Number: F89.N5 M33 2003

Bibliotheca Salmo salar :a selection of rare books, manuscripts, journals, diaries, photograph albums, & ephemera on the subject of Atlantic salmon fishing /from the collection of Charles B. Wood III.

242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Wood, Charles B., III, 1936- author. Parrot, Gray, binder. Hoelfer, Jonathan, type designer. Kelly, Jerry, 1955- book designer. Godine, David R., donor. Pimlico,

GUSN: 360735

Call Number: Stacks SH685.W66 2017

Houses for good living,by Royal Barry Wills.

104 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) 32 cm

Date: [Ã1940]

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360736

Call Number: NA7120.W65 1940

Architecture of the Old South.Georgia /Mills Lane ; special photography by Van Jones Martin ; drawings by Gene Carpenter.

252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Lane, Mills. Martin, Van Jones. Carpenter, Gene.

GUSN: 360737

Call Number: NA730.G4 L36 1986

Art and work :as shown in the several artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta, metal, wood, and textile fabrics : as well as in the various details associated with decorative art : the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, Mediµval, Italian, Renaissance and Oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam," together with other designs from more recent authorities /by Owen W. Davis.

36 pages, 85 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 1885.

Creators: Davis, Owen W.

GUSN: 360738

Call Number: NK1175.D3

The last whole earth catalog :access to tools /[edited by Stewart Brand]

447 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm

Creators: Brand, Stewart, editor. Portola Institute,

GUSN: 360739

Call Number: TS199.L37 1971

Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums /Jenny F. So.

359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: So, Jenny F., author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360740

Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 H375 2018

Catalogue of the Feinberg collection of Japanese art /edited by Rachel Saunders.

263 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It represents...

Creators: Saunders, Rachel (Rachel M.), editor. Harvard Art Museums.

GUSN: 360741

Call Number: N7352.C38 2021

Social fabrics :inscribed textiles from Medieval Egyptian tombs /edited by Mary McWilliams and Jochen Sokoly ; with contributions by Robin Hanson, Mary McWilliams, Meredith Montague, Nasser Rabbat, Jochen Sokoly, David Stern, Katherine M. Taronas, Julie H. Wertz, Elizabeth Dospéel Williams, and Meredyth Lynn Winter.

x, 163 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 x 26 cm, Social Fabrics looks at tiraz - highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic - to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story a...

Creators: McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor. Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur), editor. Harvard University. Art Museums,

GUSN: 360742

Call Number: NK8808.9.S63 2021

Technologies of the image :art in 19th-century Iran /edited by David J. Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams ; with contributions by Farshid Emami, Mary McWilliams, David J. Roxburgh, and Mira Xenia Schwerda.

xviii, 173 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm, With a few notable exceptions, scholars have historically understudied and often underappreciated the art of Iran in the Qajar era (1779-1925). This catalogue presents a fresh take on the art of the period, se...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor, author. McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor, author. Emami, Farshid, author. Schwerda, Mira Xenia, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360743

Call Number: N7280.T37 2017

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iranedited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter.

121 Seiten, 118 unnummerierte Tafelseiten Illustrationen 37 cm, Harvard's Qajar Album--57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works--is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian classic literatu...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J. 1965- Herausgeber Barnes, Trent Verfasser Harvard Art Museums

GUSN: 360744

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iran /edited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter.

121 pages, 118 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm, Harvard's Qajar Album--57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works--is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian ...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor. Barnes, Trent, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360745

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

Object lessons :the Bauhaus and Harvard /edited by Laura Muir ; with contributions by Francesca G. Bewer [and 17 others].

286 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages ; 24 x 15 cm), bound inside the back cover, "A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus. Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th cen...

Creators: Muir, Laura, editor. Bewer, Francesca G. (Francesca Gabrielle), 1960- contributor. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360746

Call Number: N332.G33 B4564 2021

Architectural graphic standards for architects, engineers, decorators, builders, and draftsmen /by Charles George Ramsey, Harold Reeve Sleeper.

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [1946]

Creators: Ramsey, Charles George, 1884-1963. Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960.

GUSN: 360747

Call Number: TH2031.R35 1946

Encyclopedia of architecture :a dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, etc., from the earliest times to the present /by Peter Nicholson ; edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: [1850?]

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Lomax, Edward. Gunyon, Thomas.

GUSN: 360748

Call Number: NA3 1 .N5 1850

Preventive conservation :collection storage /[editors] Lisa Elkin and Christopher A. Norris.

xv, 926 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care, advancing conservation while at the same time promoting accessibility and use. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage covers the storage of all types of collections, including science, fin...

Creators: Elkin, Lisa, 1966- editor. Norris, Christopher A., 1966- editor. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Smithsonian Institution, George Washington University,

GUSN: 360865

Call Number: Coll AM145.P74 2019

Art in the Massachusetts State House.

78 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 x 28 cm, ...Traces the history of its art collections and the commission's role in acquiring various works; includes a complete catalog of portraits, sculpture and other works...

Date: 1986.

Creators: Massachusetts Art Commission.

GUSN: 360866

Call Number: Coll N6535.B7 A78 1986

Edith Wharton's Lenox /Cornelia Brooke Gilder.

222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author wit...

Creators: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke, author.

GUSN: 361311

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z649 2017

The organ in New England :an account of its use and manufacture to the end of the nineteenth century /by Barbara Owen.

xx, 629 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361312

Call Number: Stacks ML561.O95

The almighty wall :the architecture of Henry Vaughan /William Morgan.

xi, 210 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Morgan, William, 1944-

GUSN: 361313

Call Number: Stacks NA737.V38 M67 1983

The life of a musician woven into a strand of history of the New England Conservatory of Music,by Henry Morton Dunham.

235 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1931]

Creators: Dunham, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1853-1929.

GUSN: 361314

Call Number: Stacks ML416.D8

The great organ at Methuen :from its celebrated arrival in nineteenth-century Boston to the present /Barbara Owen.

xiii, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm., In the middle of the nineteenth-century, American organbuilding reached a milestone when, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, a large concert organ--really the first of its kind in the country--was opened in Boston's relatively-new Music Hall....

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361315

Call Number: Stacks ML594.M48 O94 2011

The Great estates, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930 /by the Junior League of Greenwich.

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut.

GUSN: 361316

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 G74 1986

Larz and Isabel Anderson :wealth and celebrity in the Gilded Age /Stephen T. Moskey.

xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This is the story of Larz and Isabel Anderson, wealthy socialites of the Gilded Age, whose extraordinary lives spanned a century of American history-from the Civil War to World War II. Their world included dozens of celebrities who helped define modern culture...

Creators: Moskey, Stephen T., 1950- author.

GUSN: 361317

Call Number: Stacks E748.A217 M67 2016

Daughters of the Samurai :a journey from East to West and back /Janice P. Nimura.

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to h...

Creators: Nimura, Janice P., author.

GUSN: 361318

Call Number: Stacks E184.J3 N484 2015

Daisy Turner's kin :an African American family saga /Jane C. Beck.

295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., "A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--'a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved'--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and cont...

Creators: Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.

GUSN: 361319

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T93 B43 2015

American rebels :how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution /Nina Sankovitch.

viii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; 25 cm, "Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revol...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361320

Call Number: Stacks F74.B6 S26 2020

Restaurant republic :the rise of public dining in Boston /Kelly Erby.

xxiii, 151 pages ; 22 cm, "Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such...

Creators: Erby, Kelly, author.

GUSN: 361321

Call Number: Stacks TX909.2.M32 B674 2016

Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Cann, Donald. Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 361322

Call Number: Stacks F74.R67 C36 2003

The new traditional garden :a practical guide to creating and restoring authentic American gardens for homes of all ages /Michael Weishan.

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Provides a compendium of antique plants, plans for antique gardens representing a range of styles and periods, a list of suppliers, and a directory of great historic gardens.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Weishan, Michael.

GUSN: 361323

Call Number: Stacks SB457.53 .W45 1999

Amherst College :the campus guide /an architectural tour by Blair Kamin ; photography by Ralph Lieberman ; foreword by Biddy Martin.

255 pages ; 26 cm + 1 campus guide map., "The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Kamin, Blair, author.

GUSN: 361324

Call Number: Stacks LD153.K36 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

Storied strings :the guitar in American art /Leo G. Mazow ; with additional essays by Philip J. Deloria and Jayson Kerr Dobney.

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Mazow, Leo G., author. Dobney, Jayson Kerr, contributor. Deloria, Philip Joseph, contributor. Nyerges, Alexander Lee, contributor. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361358

Call Number: Coll ML1015.G9 M39 2022

Late of the guards :tattoo designs by Ben Corday /Rich Hardy.

A century-old sketchbook of tattoo designs painted by legendary Los Angeles tattoo artist Ben Corday, presented in lush facsimile. Includes a richly illustrated essay chronicling Corday's life and career.

Date: c2023.

Creators: Hardy, Rich, 1984- author.

GUSN: 361359

Call Number: Stacks GT2345.H37 2023

Architecture constructed :notes on a discipline /Mark Jarzombek.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm, "Archi-Tect explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persist...

Creators: Jarzombek, Mark, author.

GUSN: 361360

Call Number: Stacks NA2500.J37 2023

The Newport experience :sustaining historic preservation into the 21st century /Jeannine Falino ; foreword by Denis de Kergorlay, afterword by Trudy Coxe, edited by Terry Dickinson, Lise Dube-Scherr, Katherine Garrett-Cox, and Gary Ruff.

xx, 162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm, "Preserving historic houses. Preserving Colonial-era Georgian to Gilded Age mansions. History of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 75 years. Conservation of American architecture, decorative arts and landscape...

Creators: Falino, Jeannine J., author. Kergolay, Denis de, writer of foreword. Coxe, Trudy, writer of afterword. Dickinson, Terry, editor. Dubé, Lise, editor. Garrett-Cox, Katherine, editor. Ruff, Gary, editor. Preservation Society of Newport County,

GUSN: 361587

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.R42 N497 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

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