Historic New England

Municipal register : containing rules and orders of the City Council, the city charter and recent ordinances, and a list of the officers of the City of Boston, for ... (Annual)

v. : ill., maps ; 22-24 cm.

Creators: Boston (Mass.) Boston (Mass.). Statistics Dept. Boston (Mass.). City Council.

GUSN: 149653

Call Number: Stacks JS602.A3 1912 (and 1 more)

Old houses in the south county of Rhode Island / Jeanne Lippitt Weeden, Marion Kimball Hadley Ball ; compiled by the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

x, 68 p. : ill. (incl. plan), map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1932.

Creators: Weeden, Jeane Lippitt. Ball, Marion Kimball Hadley. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 149654

Call Number: Stacks F80.W44 1932

New England meeting house and church: 1630-1850 / Editor: Peter Benes, et als.

145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1979.

GUSN: 149655

Call Number: Stacks N7905.B46 c.1 (and 4 more)

Colonial churches and meeting houses, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, by Philip B. Wallace; measured drawings by William Allen Dunn; introduction by Horace Wells Sellers ..

2 p. ¾., ix-xii, 291 p. of illus. front. 32 cm.

Date: [c1931]

Creators: Wallace, Philip B. Dunn, William Allen.

GUSN: 149656

Call Number: Stacks NA5207.W3

Barn plans and outbuildings.

xii, 235 p. ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Halsted, Byron David, 1852-1918.

GUSN: 149657

Call Number: 85M Stacks TH4911.H35 1900

The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion : containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, glass-staining, graining, marbeling, sign-writing, gilding on glass and coach painting and varnishing.

356 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Chevreul, Michel, l786-l899.

GUSN: 149658

Call Number: Stacks TT305.P14 1870

The woodcarver of Salem : Samuel McIntire : his life and work / Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley.

xx, 168 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Cousins, Frank, b. 1851 Riley, Phil M. (Phil Madison), b. 1882.

GUSN: 149659

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M25 C68 1916

Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kimball.

131, xviii, 575 p. illus., facsim., 2 fold. maps (1 col.) 24 cm.

Date: 1970.

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, ed. Hubbard, Theodora Kimball, 1887-1935, ed.

GUSN: 149660

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.O5 A53

Palladio, by James S. Ackerman.

195 p. illus., maps, plans. 20 cm.

Date: 1966.

Creators: Ackerman, James S.

GUSN: 149661

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P164 A182

The immigrant builder, or, Practical hints to handy-men : showing clearly how to plan and construct dwellings in the bush, on the prairie, or elsewhere, cheaply and well, with wood, earth, or gravel / by C.P. Dwyer.

145 p. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.

Date: c1878.

Creators: Dwyer, Charles P.

GUSN: 149662

Call Number: 85M Stacks TH4850.D88 1878

The American house-carpenter : a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials / R. G. Hatfield.

x, 398, 36 p. : ill., diagrs., tables. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Hatfield, Robert Griffith, 1815-1879.

GUSN: 149663

Call Number: Stacks TH5604.H35

The Workshop.

No description

GUSN: 149664

Call Number: Stacks NK1.W92 v.4

The modern house-carpenter's companion and builder's guide : being a hand-book for workmen, and a manual of reference for contractors and builders ... also information for the convenience of builders and contractors in making estimates / W. A. Sylvester.

192 p., 45 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Sylvester, W. A. (William Allen)

GUSN: 149665

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.S97 1883a

A guide to collectors : 3,500 illustrations : English furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth / by Thomas Arthur Strange.

368 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: [190-?]

Creators: Strange, Thomas Arthur.

GUSN: 149666

Call Number: Stacks NK2043.S87

The Korean collection of the Peabody Essex Museum / described in essays by Susan S. Bean and Frederic A. Sharf.

94 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Bean, Susan S. Sharf, Frederick A. Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 149514

Call Number: Stacks DS903.B43 1997

Keeping time : the history and theory of preservation in America / William J. Murtagh.

237 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Murtagh, William J.

GUSN: 149515

Call Number: Stacks E159.M875 1988

New England views : the photography of Baldwin Coolidge (1845-1928) / Susan Fletcher Witzell, Jane A. McLaughlin, Mary Lou Smith.

xvi, 181 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Witzell, Susan Fletcher. McLaughlin, Jane A. Smith, Mary Lou. Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928. Woods Hole Historical Collection.

GUSN: 149516

Call Number: 85M Ref. F5.W64 1998

Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back / Jane Holtz Kay.

xii, 418 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Kay, Jane Holtz.

GUSN: 149517

Call Number: Stacks HE5623.K36 1997

The book of American Windsor furniture : styles and technologies / John Kassay ; with measured drawings by the author.

viii, 195 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: Kassay, John, 1919-

GUSN: 149518

Call Number: Stacks NK2406.K35 1998

How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.

viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Brand, Stewart.

GUSN: 149519

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA2542.4.B73 1994 c.2 (and 1 more)

Colt : the making of an American legend / William Hosley.

254 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Hosley, William N.

GUSN: 149520

Call Number: Stacks TS533.62.C65 H67 1996 (and 1 more)

Furnishing the old-fashioned garden : three centuries of American summerhouses, dovecotes, pergolas, privies, fences & birdhouses / May Brawley Hill.

160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Hill, May Brawley.

GUSN: 149521

Call Number: Stacks NA8450.H55 1998 (and 1 more)

The domestic architecture of Beacon Hill, 1800-1850.

[36] p. illus., map, plans. 23cm.

Date: 1973.

Creators: Weinhardt, Carl J.

GUSN: 149522

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.B65 W42

New England furniture : the Colonial era : selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities / Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye ; with the assistance of Philip Zea ; photographs by Richard Cheek.

xiii, 494 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Jobe, Brock. Kaye, Myrna. Zea, Philip. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

GUSN: 149523

Call Number: Ref. NK2410.J6 1984 c.1 (and 6 more)

American writers of the early republic / edited by Emory Elliott.

xiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Elliott, Emory, 1942-

GUSN: 149524

Call Number: Ref. PS208.A44 1985

History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations / by Samuel Greene Arnold.

2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1859-60.

Creators: Arnold, Samuel Greene, 1821-1880.

GUSN: 149525

Call Number: Stacks F79.A76 1894 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Soldiers and sailors of the Revolution from Blanford, Massachusetts.

52 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1933]

Creators: Wood, Sumner Gilbert, 1855-1942.

GUSN: 149526

Call Number: Stacks E513.3.W66 1933

About Bolton / by Esther Kimmens Whitcomb.

xi, 463 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Whitcomb, Esther K.

GUSN: 149527

Call Number: Stacks F74.B5 W47 1988

Vital records of Bolton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849.

232 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Bolton (Mass.)

GUSN: 149528

Call Number: Stacks F74.B5 B5

Guide to architectural trade catalogs from Avery Library, Columbia University / edited by Norman A. Ross ; introduction by Frank Matero.

xviii, 236 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Ross, Norman A., 1942- Mitchell, Herbert. Avery Library. UPA Academic Editions (Firm)

GUSN: 149529

Call Number: Ref. HD9715.8.G85 1989

Trade catalogues at Winterthur : a guide to the literature of merchandising, 1750 to 1980 / [compiled by] E. Richard McKinstry.

xv, 438 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: McKinstry, E. Richard. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 149530

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z7164.M18 H43 1984 (and 1 more)

Portsmouth furniture : masterworks from the New Hampshire seacoast / organized and edited by Brock Jobe ; with contributions by Diane Carlberg Ehrenpreis ... [et al.] ; photographs by David Bohl.

454 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Jobe, Brock. Ehrenpreis, Diane Carlberg.

GUSN: 149531

Call Number: Ref. NK2438.P67 P67 1993 c.1 (and 4 more)

Textile technology prints : a checklist of prints, drawings & paintings in the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum / by Helena Wright.

39 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Wright, Helena, 1946- Merrimack Valley Textile Museum.

GUSN: 149532

Call Number: Ref. TS1306.U452 N675 1980

Boston : a guide book / by Edwin M. Bacon.

x, 190 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., col. maps, ports. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916.

GUSN: 149533

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.B132 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Japan idea : art and life in Victorian America / by William Hosley.

211 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Hosley, William N. Wadsworth Atheneum.

GUSN: 149535

Call Number: Ref. N6510.H58 1990 (and 1 more)

American interiors, New England & the South : period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum / Donald C. Peirce and Hope Alswang.

64 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Peirce, Donald C. Alswang, Hope. Brooklyn Museum.

GUSN: 149537

Call Number: Ref. NK2003.B76 1983 (and 1 more)

Technical Americana : a checklist of technical publications printed before 1831 / by Evald Rink ; foreword by Eugene S. Ferguson ; sponsored by the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library.

xxviii, 776 p. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Rink, Evald, 1916- Eleutherian Mills Historical Library.

GUSN: 149538

Call Number: 85M Ref. Z7912.R56

Three centuries of American furniture / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

xii, 323 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Fitzgerald, Oscar P.

GUSN: 149539

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK2405.F58 c.1 (and 2 more)

King's dictionary of Boston, by Edwin M. Bacon; with an historical introduction by George E. Ellis.

xvi, 7-518 p. illus. 17 cm.

Date: 1883.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916. Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894.

GUSN: 149540

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.5.B12x c.2 (and 1 more)

Nineteenth century. (Quarterly)

v. : ill. ; 22-28 cm.

Creators: Victorian Society in America.

GUSN: 149541

Call Number: Ref. N6450.N53 v.8 no.3-4

Walks and rides in the country round about Boston; covering thirty-six cities and towns, parks and public reservations, within a radius of twelve miles from the State house, by Edwin M. Bacon.

vi, 419 p. illus., 4 fold. maps. 17 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916. Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston,

GUSN: 149542

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.A1 B2

Antiques and collectibles : a bibliography of works in English, 16th century to 1976 / by Linda Campbell Franklin ; with linocuts by the author.

xxiii, 1091 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Franklin, Linda Campbell.

GUSN: 149543

Call Number: Ref. Z5956.A68 F7 1978

The Boston book : containing matter relating to the second International Congregational council, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 20-28 September, 1899, including the program and list of officers and delegates; together with sketches of Boston and an account of its Congregational activities and some reference to other near-by points of Pilgrim and Puritan interest.

232 p. : ill., fold. map ; 19 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: International Congregational Council, (1899 : Boston).

GUSN: 149544

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.B733

Bowen's picture of Boston : or the citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. To which is affixed the Annals of Boston.

5 p. ¾., [9]-304 p. : ill., plates, maps, plan ; 16 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850.

GUSN: 149545

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.44.B82 1838

Journey to Boston in 1809. Edited by Milton Halsey Thomas.

xii,97p. illus., ports. 24cm.

Date: 1955.

Creators: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821.

GUSN: 149546

Call Number: Stacks F8.B68

A complete history of the Boston fire department, including the fire-alarm service and the protective department, from 1630 to 1888. By Arthur Wellington Brayley.

xx, 729 p. incl. plates, ports., maps, facsim. front. 25 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Brayley, Arthur Wellington, 1863-

GUSN: 149547

Call Number: Stacks TH9505.B7 B8

Child toilers of Boston streets / by Emma E. Brown.

149 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: c1879.

Creators: Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth), b. 1847.

GUSN: 149548

Call Number: Rare HD6250.U4 B68 1879

Boston, city on a hill : an illustrated history / by Andrew Buni and Alan Rogers ; pictorial research by Sharlene Voogd Cochrane ; "Partners in progress" by Mary M. Whelan.

240 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Buni, Andrew. Rogers, Alan, 1936- Whelan, Mary M. Partners in progress.

GUSN: 149549

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.B96 1984

Portrait of a port: Boston, 1852-1914. W. H. Bunting, compiler and annotator.

xviii, 519 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Bunting, William Henry, 1945-

GUSN: 149550

Call Number: Ref. HE767.B7 B8

The story of the great fire : Boston, November 9-10, 1872 / by "Carleton," an eye-witness ; illustrated by Billings, from sketches taken on the spot.

32, 4, [11]-12, [10] p., 1 leaf of plates ill., map ; 20 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896.

GUSN: 149551

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.C67

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