Historic New England

A descriptive catalogue of the historical collection of water-colour paintings in the South Kensington museum, with an introductory notice by Samuel Redgrave.

viii, 242 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Redgrave, Samuel, 1802-1876. Victoria and Albert Museum

GUSN: 149115

Call Number: Coll. ND1725.L75

German, Flemish and Dutch painting / by H.J. Wilmot Buxton and Edward J. Poynter.

xiv, 244 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Buxton, H. J. Wilmot (Harry John Wilmot) Poynter, Edward J. Sir, (Edward John), 1836-1919. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Committee of General Literature and Education.

GUSN: 149116

Call Number: Coll. ND554.B85

Anonymous was a woman / [compiled by] Mirra Bank.

128 p. : ill. (some col) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Bank, Mirra.

GUSN: 149117

Call Number: Stacks NK806.A55 c.1 (and 1 more)

Some statues of Boston; reproductions of some of the statues for which Boston is famous, with information concerning the personalities and events so memorialized, by Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman.

75, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1946]

Creators: Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955. Eastman, Ralph Mason, 1891- joint author. State Street Trust Company, Boston.

GUSN: 149118

Call Number: Coll. F73.64.F6

Other statues of Boston; reproductions of other statues of Boston as a sequel to our brochure of 1946 entitled "Some statues of Boston," by Allan Forbes and Ralph M. Eastman.

93 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955. Eastman, Ralph Mason, 1891- joint author. State Street Trust Company, Boston.

GUSN: 149119

Call Number: Coll. F73.64.F57

Gossip about portraits : principally engraved portraits / by Walter F. Tiffin.

vi, 223 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1866.

Creators: Tiffin, Walter F.

GUSN: 149120

Call Number: Coll. N7575.T5

American daguerreotypes : from the Matthew R. Isenburg collection / exhibition and catalogue prepared by Richard S. Field and Robin Jaffee Frank ; introduction by Matthew R. Isenburg ; essay by Alan Trachtenberg.

126 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: [1989].

Creators: Field, Richard S. Frank, Robin Jaffee. Isenburg, Matthew R. Trachtenberg, Alan. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 149121

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR365.F54 1989

A sense of place, a sense of time / John Brinckerhoff Jackson.

ix, 212 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-

GUSN: 149122

Call Number: Stacks F796.J27 1994

Courage and conscience : Black & white abolitionists in Boston / edited by Donald M. Jacobs.

xvi, 237 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Jacobs, Donald M.

GUSN: 149123

Call Number: 85M Stacks E449.C86 1993 c.1 (and 1 more)

The articulate sisters; passages from journals and letters of the daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University, edited by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

6 p. ¾., 3-249 p. plates, ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1946.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960, ed. Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884. Greene, Margaret Morton Quincy, b. 1806. Quincy, Maria Sophia, b. 1805. Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, 1812-1899.

GUSN: 149124

Call Number: Stacks E302.6.Q7 H6

Small antique silverware / G. Bernard Hughes.

224 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Hughes, G. Bernard (George Bernard), 1896-

GUSN: 149125

Call Number: Stacks NK7143.H82 1957a

American visions : the epic history of art in America / by Robert Hughes.

ix, 635 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Hughes, Robert, 1938-

GUSN: 149126

Call Number: Stacks N6505.H84 1997

Resident and business directory of Carver, Halifax, Hanson and Plympton, Massachusetts 1902-3 : containing a complete resident, street and business directory, town officers, schools, societies, churches, post offices, state census for 1900, rates of postage, etc. Also a business directory of our patrons in other towns.

viii, 159 p.

Date: 1902.

Creators: New England Historic Genealogical Society. American Genealogical Lending Library.

GUSN: 149127

Call Number: Stacks F74.C28 C37 1902 c.1 (and 1 more)

Excavating, shoring, and piling; footings and foundations; areas, vaults, and retaining walls; cements; concrete construction; stone masonry; stone arches; carpentry; mechanics of carpentry; joinery; steel square.

1 v. illus.

Date: [c1909]

Creators: International Correspondence Schools.

GUSN: 149128

Call Number: Stacks TH165.I5

A city for the nation : the Army engineers and the building of Washington, D.C., 1790-1967 / by Albert E. Cowdrey.

vi, 75 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1979

Creators: Cowdrey, Albert E.

GUSN: 149129

Call Number: Stacks F204.A1 C68

Sons of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina, Inc. and its predecessor, North Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution / compiled by James Vann Comer.

ii, 176 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1990]

Creators: Comer, James Vann. Sons of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina.

GUSN: 149130

Call Number: Stacks E202.4.N8 C66 1990

Inside your home / by Dan Cooper ; drawings by Teresa Kilham.

127 p. : col. front., ill., plans, plates ; 26 cm.

Date: 1951.

Creators: Cooper, Dan.

GUSN: 149131

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.C85 1951

Winslow Homer watercolors / Helen A. Cooper.

259 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Cooper, Helen A. National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 149132

Call Number: Stacks ND1839.H6 A4 1986

The textile tools of colonial homes: from raw materials to finished garments, before mass production in the factories, by Marion L. Channing. Illustrated by Walter E. Channing.

64 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Channing, Marion L.

GUSN: 149133

Call Number: Stacks TS1525.C48 1971

The factory mutuals, 1835-1935; being primarily a history of the Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the original of the factory mutual companies, during its first one hundred years.

384p. illus.(incl.ports.) 2 fold.plans,diagrs.(1 double) 23cm.

Date: 1935.

Creators: Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Providence.

GUSN: 149134

Call Number: Stacks HG9780.M36

Fond memory : a Maine coast reminiscence : (written for my boys, just for fun) / Myra Smith Earl.

330 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Earl, Myra Smith, 1879-1972.

GUSN: 149135

Call Number: Stacks F29.W8 E2 1993

Wallpapers in historic preservation / Catherine Lynn Frangiamore.

v, 56 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Lynn, Catherine.

GUSN: 149136

Call Number: Stacks NK3395.F72 (and 1 more)

A pictorial history of the Shelburne Museum [by] Richard Lawrence Greene and Kenneth Edward Wheeling.

127 p. illus. (part col.) 31 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Greene, Richard Lawrence. Wheeling, Kenneth Edward, joint author.

GUSN: 149137

Call Number: Stacks F59.S49 G7

How to entertain at home; drawings by Lois Bradford Gray.

vii, [1], 401 p. incl. col. illus., plates. front. 20 cm.

Date: [c1927]

Creators: Priscilla Publishing Co.

GUSN: 149138

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV1471.P7

Art of the landscape : Sunnyside, Montgomery Place and romanticism / Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Timothy Steinhoff.

40 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: 1996].

Creators: Johnson, Kathleen Eagen. Steinhoff, Timothy. Historic Hudson Valley (Organization)

GUSN: 149139

Call Number: Stacks SB469.34.N7 J64 1996

The illustrated American biography : containing correct portraits and brief notices of the principal actors in American history; embracing distinguished women, naval and military heroes, statesmen, civilians, jurists, divines authors and artists; together with celebrated Indian chiefs... Complete in six volumes, one volume to be issued annually / by A. D. Jones.

3 v. : ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1853-1855.

Creators: Jones, A. D. (Abner Dumont), 1807-1872.

GUSN: 149140

Call Number: Stacks E663.J66 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Dreamland : America at the dawn of the twentieth century / Michael Lesy.

207 p. : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: Lesy, Michael, 1945- Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942.

GUSN: 149141

Call Number: Stacks E168.L47 1997

The living White House / text by Lonnelle Aikman.

151 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm., A brief history of the White House, containing anecdotes of visitors, events, and the First Families from Presidents Adams through Clinton.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Aikman, Lonnelle. White House Historical Association. National Geographic Society (U.S.)

GUSN: 149142

Call Number: Stacks F204.W5 A5 1996

Journey into fame; the life of Daniel Chester French; with a foreword by Walter Prichard Eaton.

xv, 316 p. plates, ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Cresson, Margaret French, 1889-

GUSN: 149143

Call Number: Stacks NB237.F7 C7

Sketches from my scrap books and diaries.

122 p. illus., ports. 20 cm.

Date: [1948]

Creators: Bartlett, John Henry, 1869-

GUSN: 149144

Call Number: Stacks F39.B3

James Phinney Baxter, historian, Portland, Maine, 1831-1921; a short biography written for the Maine writers' research club. A lifelong opponent of vivisection, written for the Christian science monitor. By Percival P. Baxter.

[11] p. front. (port.) 24 cm.

Date: [1924?]

Creators: Baxter, Percival Proctor, 1876-

GUSN: 149145

Call Number: Stacks E175.5.B35

Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915; an autobiography; with a Memorial address delivered November 17, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge.

lx, 224 p. front. (port.) 25 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924.

GUSN: 149146

Call Number: Stacks E175.5.A16

The museum, a manual of the housing and care of art collections, by Margaret Talbot Jackson.

xi, 280 p. front., illus. (incl. plan) plates. 20 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Jackson, Margaret Talbot.

GUSN: 149147

Call Number: Stacks N410.J3

Open house : a guided tour of the American home, 1637-present / Merritt Ierley.

xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Ierley, Merritt.

GUSN: 149148

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.I35 1999

Improper Bostonians : lesbian and gay history from the Puritans to Playland / compiled by the History Project ; foreword by Barney Frank.

xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1998.

Creators: History Project (Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 149149

Call Number: 85M Stacks HQ76.3.U52 M45 1998

Country New England sightseeing and historical guide / by Anthony Hitchcock and Jean Lindgren.

228 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Hitchcock, Anthony, 1940- Lindgren, Jean, 1941- joint author.

GUSN: 149150

Call Number: Stacks F2.3.H54

A new guide to the Massachusetts State House, by Sinclair H. Hitchings & Catherine H. Farlow. Prepared as a public service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.

108 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.

Date: 1964]

Creators: Hitchings, Sinclair, 1933- Farlow, Catherine H., joint author. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company.

GUSN: 149151

Call Number: Stacks F73.8.S8 H5

Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing / by Fred T. Hodgson.

2 v. in 1 (351, viii, 262 p.) : ill., 18 double plates ; 20 cm.

Date: c1911, 1913 printing.

Creators: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919.

GUSN: 149152

Call Number: Stacks NA2520.H73 1911

Fancy dresses described; or, What to wear at fancy balls. By Ardern Holt.

vi, 253 p. [1] p. xvi plates. 19 cm.

Date: 1887]

Creators: Holt, Ardern.

GUSN: 149153

Call Number: Stacks NK4706.H75

Origin and annals of "The Old south," First Presbyterian church and parish, in Newburyport, Mass., 1746-1896. Edited by Horace C. Hovey ... Published for the society by a committee.

223 p, illus., front., plates, ports. 23cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Hovey, Horace Carter, 1833-1914, ed. First Presbyterian Church (Newburyport, Mass.)

GUSN: 149154

Call Number: Stacks BX9211.N6 F46

"The house of God" : historical discourse on the sesqui-centennial of the Old South Meeting-House of Newburyport, Mass. / by the pastor, Horace Carter Hovey, December 16th, 1906.

27 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Hovey, Horace Carter, 1833-1914.

GUSN: 149155

Call Number: Stacks BX9211.M4195 F506 1906

Between the rivers : itinerant painters from the Connecticut to the Hudson / by Colleen Cowles Heslip ; with an introduction by Mary Black.

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

Date: c1990.

Creators: Heslip, Colleen Cowles. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, Mass.) Hudson River Museum.

GUSN: 149156

Call Number: Stacks ND215.H47 1990 c.1 (and 2 more)

Childe Hassam : American impressionist / Ulrich W. Hiesinger.

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

Date: c1994.

Creators: Hiesinger, Ulrich W., 1943- Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935. Jordan-Volpe Gallery.

GUSN: 149157

Call Number: Stacks N6537.H367 A4 1994

In the matter of color : the colonial period / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

xxiii, 512 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-

GUSN: 149158

Call Number: Stacks KF4757.H53

America restored / Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair ; photographs by Carol M. Highsmith.

320 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Landphair, Ted, 1942-

GUSN: 149159

Call Number: Stacks E159.H65 1994

Power from wind : a history of windmill technology / Richard L. Hills.

324 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Hills, Richard Leslie, 1936-

GUSN: 149160

Call Number: Stacks TJ823.H55 1994

Some Danvers acres and associations connected therewith / by Ezra D. Hines, 1897.

22 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Hines, Ezra D. (Ezra Dodge), 1847-1920.

GUSN: 149161

Call Number: Stacks F74.D2 H5 c.1 (and 1 more)

Counterpoint : two centuries of American masters.

112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 149162

Call Number: Stacks N6510.C695 1990 (and 1 more)

The art of hair work : hair braiding and jewelry of sentiment with catalog of hair jewelry / by Mark Campbell ; as supplemented with excerpts from Godey's Lady's magazine edited by Jules & Kaethe Kliot.

208 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Campbell, Mark. Kliot, Jules. Kliot, Kaethe.

GUSN: 148862

Call Number: Coll. NK6076.C25

The dictionary of antiques and the decorative arts; a book of reference for glass, furniture, ceramics, silver, periods, styles, technical terms, etc., compiled and edited by Louise Ade Boger and H. Batterson Boger.

ix, 662 p. illus. (part col.) 28 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Boger, Louise Ade. Boger, H. Batterson, joint author.

GUSN: 148863

Call Number: Coll. NK30.B57 1967

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