Historic New England

Boston. A brief description of the principal facts about the city. Presented by the City of Boston to the delegates to the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industrial and Commercial Association, in session at Boston, September 24 to 28, 1912. [Written by R.J. Walsh]

78 p., 28 pl., 1 map. lea. 8vo.

Date: 1912]

Creators: Walsh, Richard J. International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industrial Associations (V : 1912 : Boston)

GUSN: 149629

Call Number: Stacks F73.3 I58

Streetcar suburbs: the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900.

xxi, 208 p. illus., maps, tables. 25 cm.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-

GUSN: 149630

Call Number: Stacks HN80.B7 W3

Curiosities of history: Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880. By William W. Wheildon.

x, 11-141 p. ill.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Wheildon, William W. (William Wilder), 1805-1892.

GUSN: 149631

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.W57

Boston ways: high, by, and folk.

261 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Weston, George F.

GUSN: 149632

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.W5

Boston; a topographical history. Walter Muir Whitehill

xl, 244 p. illus., maps. 25 cm.

Date: 1959.

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-

GUSN: 149633

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.W57 1959

Boston days, the city of beautiful ideals; Concord, and its famous authors; the golden age of genius; dawn of the twentieth century; first decade of twentieth century, by Lilian Whiting.

485 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1902]

Creators: Whiting, Lilian, 1859-

GUSN: 149634

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.W6

Little journeys in literature, by Helen M. Winslow.

xii, 444 p. ports. 20 cm.

Date: [1906, c1902]

Creators: Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria), 1851-1938.

GUSN: 149635

Call Number: Stacks PS121.W5

The memorial history of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880. Ed. by Justin Winsor. Issued under the business superintendence of the projector, Clarence F. Jewett.

4 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports., maps, plans, facsims. 29 cm.

Date: 1880-81.

Creators: Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, ed. Jewett, C. F. (Clarence F.)

GUSN: 149636

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.W77 1880 v.1 (and 11 more)

Able men of Boston; the remarkable story of the first 100 years of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, its men, its times, and its growth in insurance protection, in fire prevention know-how, in ever vital service and security to North American industry, 1850-1950.

253 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Yorke, Dane, 1889-

GUSN: 149637

Call Number: Stacks HG9780.B6 Y6

Boston : in a class by itself / contributing authors, Nancy Zerbey ... [et al.] ; corporate profiles by Nancy Walser ; produced in cooperation with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

446 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Zerbey, Nancy. Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

GUSN: 149638

Call Number: Stacks HC108.B65 B67 1988

Final report of the Joint Board of Metropolitan Improvements, pursuant to chapter 113 of the resolves of 1909 and chapters 112 and 134 of the resolves of 1910.

145 p. : folded maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Massachusetts. Joint Board on Metropolitan Improvements.

GUSN: 149639

Call Number: Stacks F73.67.A1

Building code of the city of Boston. Consisting of chapter 479 of the Acts of 1938 as amended by chapter 217 of the Acts of 1939, with the amendments by ordinance of the City council incorporated.

v, 306 p, [1] p. incl. tables, diagr. 20 cm.

Date: 1944.

Creators: Boston (Mass.).

GUSN: 149640

Call Number: Stacks TH225.B72 A4 1944 c.1 (and 2 more)

Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men. Comp. under the supervision of Richard Herndon. Ed. by Edwin M. Bacon ...

vi, 461 p. illus., plates, ports. 29 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Herndon, Richard, comp. Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916, ed.

GUSN: 149641

Call Number: Ref. F73.5.H55

Jubilee days. An illustrated daily record of the humorous features of the World's peace jubilee. With illustrations by Augustus Hoppin, engraved by the Chemical engraving company. no. 1-16; June 17-July 4, 1872.

2 p. ¾.,68 p. illus.,pl. 39 cm. daily except Sunday.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, ed. Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, ed. Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896.

GUSN: 149642

Call Number: Stacks ML38.B7 P42

Boston Common : scenes from four centuries / by M.A. De Wolfe Howe.

x, 87 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill., facsim., map, plan ; 29 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 149643

Call Number: Stacks F73.65.C7 H8

Metropolitan Boston; a modern history; editor-in-chief, Albert P. Langtry.

5 v. fronts. (vol. I-IV) plates, ports., col. coats of arms. 28 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Langtry, Albert Perkins, 1860-1939, ed. Lewis Historical Publishing Co.

GUSN: 149644

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.L27 v.1 (and 3 more)

About Boston; sight, sound, flavor & inflection. With drawings by the author.

192 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-

GUSN: 149645

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.M17

Boston sights : or, handbook for visitors / by R. L. Midgley ; illustrated by Billings, Hill, Barry and John Andrew.

214 p. : ill, 2 maps (tipped in) ; 18 cm.

Date: 1865.

Creators: Midgley, R. L.

GUSN: 149646

Call Number: Stacks F73.18.M5 1865

Report of the Commission on Marking Historical Sites of the city of Boston, 1924-1937. Commission, Thomas H. Dowd, chairman, Julius H. Tuttle, Wilfred F. Kelley, Frank Leveroni, Joseph A. F. O'Neil.

151 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. port.) plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1937?]

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Commission on Marking Historical Sites.

GUSN: 149647

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.B495

The book of Boston: the Colonial period, 1630-1775. With photos. by Samuel Chamberlain.

127 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1960]

Creators: Ross, Marjorie Drake.

GUSN: 149648

Call Number: Stacks F73.4.R6

A history of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period; with some account of the environs. By Caleb H. Snow ...

iv, [4], [9]-400 p. front., illus., plates, map, 3 plans (1 fold.) 24 cm.

Date: 1825.

Creators: Snow, Caleb H. (Caleb Hopkins), 1796-1835.

GUSN: 149649

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.S68

Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners. (Annual)

27 v. illus., plates, fold. map, plans, tables, charts. 23 cm.

Date: [1893]-1920.

Creators: Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915. Casas, William Beltran de las, 1857- Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission.

GUSN: 149650

Call Number: Stacks SB483.B7 1893 (and 14 more)

Annual report of the registry department of the City of Boston for the year ...

5 v. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1901-1905.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept.

GUSN: 149652

Call Number: Stacks HA730.B7 A2 1904

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

On decorating the house :. in the Early American, Colonial, English and Spanish Manner / Helen Koues.

xvi, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Koues, Helen.

GUSN: 149667

Call Number: Stacks NK2113.K6

Household elegancies; suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations. By Mrs. C.S. Jones and Henry T. Williams.

300, [1] p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1875.

Creators: Jones, C. S., Mrs. Williams, Henry T.

GUSN: 149668

Call Number: Stacks TT880.J6 (and 1 more)

Colonial furniture in America.

2 v. fronts., illus. 33 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Lockwood, Luke Vincent, 1872-1951.

GUSN: 149669

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.L8 1913 v.1 (and 1 more)

Eighteenth-century American arts : the M. and M. Karolik collection of paintings, drawings, engravings, furniture, silver, needlework & incidental objects gathered to illustrate the achievements of American artists and craftsmen of the period from 1720 to 1820 / by Edwin J. Hipkiss ; with notes on drawings and prints, by Henry P. Rossiter, and comments on the collection, by Maxim Karolik.

xvii, 366 p., [37] p. of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Hipkiss, Edwin James, 1885-1955. Rossiter, Henry P. (Henry Preston), b. 1885. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 149671

Call Number: Stacks N520.A73 c.1 (and 1 more)

Salt glazed stoneware : Germany, Flanders, England and the United States / by Edwin Atlee Barber.

28 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art.

GUSN: 149672

Call Number: Coll. NK4360.B37

Pattern book of bird rugs and floor coverings / Bird and Son.

1 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Bird Floor Covering Sales Corporation.

GUSN: 149673

Call Number: Stacks NK2795.P38

The historical collection of Insurance Company of North America / by M.J. McCosker.

213 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1967.

Creators: McCosker, M. J. Insurance Company of America.

GUSN: 149674

Call Number: Stacks TH9114.M38 1967

The historical collection of Insurance Company of North America / by M.J. McCosker.

173 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1945.

Creators: McCosker, M. J. Insurance Company of America.

GUSN: 149675

Call Number: Stacks TH9114.M38 1945

A handbook of legendary and mythological art / Clara Erskine Clement.

x, 510 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916.

GUSN: 149676

Call Number: Ref. N7760.W3 1873

XVIIth century painting in New England : a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Worcester Art Museum in collaboration with the American Antiquarian Society, July and August, 1934 / compiled and edited for the committee by Louisa Dresser ... with a laboratory report by Alan Burroughs ...

187 p. : ill., ports. ; 26cm.

Date: 1935.

Creators: Dresser, Louisa. Worcester Art Museum. American Antiquarian Society.

GUSN: 149677

Call Number: Stacks ND1311.W6 (and 1 more)

The Walpole Society, a tribute to its founders, original members and other Walpoleans of their time.

vii, 68 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Walpole Society (U.S.).

GUSN: 149678

Call Number: Stacks N11.W26

Arcadian vales, views of the Connecticut River Valley : [catalogue of an exhibition held at the] George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, November 22, 1981-February 7, 1982 [and the] Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, March 4, 1982-April 4, 1982.

100 p. : ill. ; 26 x 22 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Center for the Arts.

GUSN: 149679

Call Number: Stacks ND1351 A73

Life in America : a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's Fair, April 24 to October 29.

xxix, 230 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1939.

Creators: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) New York World's Fair (1939-1940)

GUSN: 149680

Call Number: Stacks ND203.N4 (and 1 more)

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