Historic New England

Early American decorative patterns and how to paint them. Drawings by the author. Color photos. by Hilda Borcherding.

199 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Sabine, Ellen S.

GUSN: 146977

Call Number: Stacks NK1403.S3

Some historic houses, their builders and their places in history, edited by Dr. John C. Fitzpatrick. Published under the auspices of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.

x p. 1 l. 160 p. plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1939.

Creators: Fitzpatrick, John Clement, 1876-1940.

GUSN: 146978

Call Number: Stacks E159.F57

The architecture of the Old South: the medieval style, 1585-1850.

203 p. illus., plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Forman, Henry Chandlee, 1904-

GUSN: 146979

Call Number: Stacks NA720.F6

Old buildings, gardens, and furniture in Tidewater Maryland, by H. Chandlee Forman. Drawings and photos. by author except where noted.

xi, 326 p. illus., plans. 26 cm.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Forman, Henry Chandlee, 1904-

GUSN: 146980

Call Number: Stacks NA730.M3 F58

Architects' and stairbuilders' tables of treads and risers. By John A. Hamilton, architect.

[21] p. 11 x 17 cm.

Date: 1885.

Creators: Hamilton, John A., architect.

GUSN: 146981

Call Number: Stacks TH5673.H2

Porches and portals of old Fredericksburg, Virginia [by] Virginia Carmichael.

46 p., 1 ¾. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Carmichael, Virginia.

GUSN: 146982

Call Number: Stacks NA735.F84 C3

Artistic homes in city and country; a selection of sketches prepared in the routine of office-work and now amplified and enlarged, by Albert W. Fuller ... With forty-four full-page illustrations and explanations.

4 p. ¾., 1 ¾., 44 (i.e. 43) pl. 22 x 34 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Fuller, Albert W.

GUSN: 146983

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.F88 1882

Convenient houses, with fifty plans for the housekeeper. Architect and housewife; a journey through the house; fifty convenient house plans; practical house building for the owner; business points in building; how to pay for a home. By Louis H. Gibson ...

4, 321 p. front., illus. (incl. plans) plates. 24 cm.

Date: [1889]

Creators: "Cereal," 1854-

GUSN: 146984

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.G38 1889

Images of American living; four centuries of architecture and furniture as cultural expression.

xv, 498 p. illus., plans. 26 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Gowans, Alan.

GUSN: 146985

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA705.G6 (and 1 more)

New England doorways; photographs and comment by Samuel Chamberlain.

101 p. front., illus. 21 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 146986

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3010.C5 1939

Gateways and doorways of Charleston, South Carolina, in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, by Elizabeth Gibbon Curtis; edited with introduction and notes by Maxwell Kimball, and Arthur C. Holden.

xiii p., 68 numb. l. incl. front., plates. 29 cm.

Date: [c1926]

Creators: Curtis, Elizabeth Gibbon. Kimball, Maxwell, ed. Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890- , joint ed.

GUSN: 146987

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C35 C8

The honest house, presenting examples of the usual problems which face the home-builder, together with an exposition of the simple architectural principles which underlie them: arranged especially in reference to small house design, by Ruby Ross Goodnow in collaboration with Rayne Adams; introd. by Frederick L. Ackerman.

8p.¾.,3-206 p. front.,illus.(incl. plans) 28 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Goodnow, Ruby Ross. Adams, Rayne, d. 1931, joint author.

GUSN: 146988

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.G6 1914

Dutchess county doorways, and other examples of period-work in wood, 1730-1830, with accounts of houses, places and people, by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds; photography by Margaret DeM. Brown.

xviii, 280, [22] p. front., 204 pl. on 102 ¾. 29 cm.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson.

GUSN: 146989

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.N7 R43 c.1 (and 1 more)

Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware.

304 p.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Hammond, John Martin, 1886-1939.

GUSN: 146990

Call Number: Stacks F182.H22

Old New England doorways / by Albert G. Robinson ; with many illustrations from the author's unique collection of photographs of old-time New England houses and doorways.

21 p., [66] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner), 1855-1932.

GUSN: 146991

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3010.R6

The American spirit in architecture, by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin.

353 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1926.

Creators: Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956.

GUSN: 146992

Call Number: Stacks E178.5.P3 vol.13

Staircases and garden steps, by Guy Cadogan Rothery.

xii, 250 p. front., illus., plates, plans. 19 cm.

Date: [1912?].

Creators: Rothery, Guy Cadogan, 1863-

GUSN: 146993

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA3060.R6 1912a

The American fireplace: chimneys, mantelpieces, fireplaces & accessories [by] Henry J. Kauffman. Introd. by Joe Kindig III.

352 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Kauffman, Henry J., 1908-

GUSN: 146994

Call Number: Coll. NA3050.K34 c.1 (and 1 more)

America's country schools / Andrew Gulliford.

291 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Gulliford, Andrew.

GUSN: 146995

Call Number: Stacks LB1567.G88 1984

Court house, a photographic document / edited by Richard Pare ; conceived and directed by Phyllis Lambert ; the writers of Court house, Phyllis Lambert ... [et al.] ; the photographers of Court house, Harold Allen ... [et al.].

255 p. : ill. ; 34 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Pare, Richard. Lambert, Phyllis. Allen, Harold, 1912-

GUSN: 146996

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA4475.U6 C68

The unflushables : outhouses, history and humor : featuring two-,three-, and five-story outhouses / Walter J. Weber.

141 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Weber, Walter J. (Walter John), 1911-

GUSN: 146997

Call Number: Stacks TH4975.W43 1989

Quaint and historic forts of North America, by John Martin Hammond ... with seventy-one illustrations.

xiii, [1] p., 1 l., 308, [1] p. front., plates, port, 25 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Hammond, John Martin, 1886-1939

GUSN: 146998

Call Number: Stacks E159.H22

The architect & the American country house, 1890-1940 / Mark Alan Hewitt ; architectural photographs by Richard Cheek.

xiii, 312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Hewitt, Mark A. Cheek, Richard.

GUSN: 147000

Call Number: Stacks NA7561.H4 1990

The American home : architecture and society, 1815-1915 / David P. Handlin.

xii, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Handlin, David P.

GUSN: 147001

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7207.H32 1979 (and 1 more)

From tepees to towers; a photographic history of American architecture, by Carl E. Hiller.

106 p. illus. 26 cm., Photographs of selected American buildings reflect the growth of our civilization and the primary factors governing our architecture: purpose, climate, materials, and the urge to adorn.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Hiller, Carl E.

GUSN: 147002

Call Number: Stacks NA705.H5

American architecture / David P. Handlin.

288 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Handlin, David P.

GUSN: 147003

Call Number: Ref. NA705.H35 1985

Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration by H. Hudson Holly. With one hundred original designs comprising cottages, villas and mansions.

219 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. plans) 23 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Holly, H. Hudson (Henry Hudson), 1834-1892.

GUSN: 147004

Call Number: Stacks NA7610.H65

Peninsula pilgrimage, by Elizabeth Valentine Huntley.

398 p. incl. illus, plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Huntley, Elizabeth Valentine.

GUSN: 147005

Call Number: Stacks F227.H93 1941

American buildings and their architects; v. 3, Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century / William H. Jordy.

420 p. : ill.

Date: 1976, c1972.

Creators: Jordy, William H.

GUSN: 147006

Call Number: Ref. NA705.P5 1976

The American heritage book of great historic places, by the editors of American heritage. Narrative by Richard M. Ketchum. Introd. by Bruce Catton.

376 p. illus. (part col.) ports. (part col.) col. maps. 29 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Ketchum, Richard M., 1922-

GUSN: 147007

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.K418

A Calendar of Game Birds for 1909

"Twelve drawings from Nature and in Color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes." Each study is accompanied with a sheet describing the habits and description of the bird (grouse, duck, plovers, etc.).

Date: 1909

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198846

Ref. Code: GC002.02.117

Boston and its environs = und seine Umbegungen = et ses environs, Fr. Goth, 1850-1859

In the central scene Boston can be seen from Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston surrounded by 12 small views of various historic sites: Bunker Hill Monument, Boston & Maine Depot, Revere House, Hancock House, Boston Common, City Hall, Custom House, Old State House, Tremont Row, Park Street Churc...

Date: 1850-1859

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198848

Ref. Code: GC002.02.001

Oversize

Series

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198847

Ref. Code: GC002.02

Furniture and interior designs by Benjamin Woodward

Consists of furniture and interior fashions (windows, chairs, etc.) from French design books (Le Garde-Meuble, D. Guilmard & Celestin Allard) and original drawings by Benjamin Woodward, upholsterer, Goods & Fine Furniture. Includes examples of Woodward's own sketches adapted from French designs. F...

Date: 1850s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198850

Ref. Code: GC002.02.116

Commemoration of the tercentenary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1930, drawing by Mildred Mowll, Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, Mass., 1930

Views of historic Boston sites are identified in the item: Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill Monument, King's Chapel, Longfellow Bridge, Brimstone Corner, Old State House, Quincy Market & Custom House, Public Gardens, Paul Revere House, Wharf of the Boston Tea Party, Old South Meetinghouse, New State House ...

Date: 1930

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198853

Ref. Code: GC002.02.002

Subjects

Series

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198851

Ref. Code: GC002.03

View of grounds and structures of the United States Agricultural Society at its third exhibition in Boston, 1855

A sepia toned lithograph showing people and the exhibition grounds at the third exhibition of the United States Agricultural Societ in 1855. There is a tent in the middle of the print, with people, horses and carriages all around.

Date: 1855

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198855

Ref. Code: GC002.02.003

The Child: A Calendar--1903

"Published for Jessie Wilcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green by Charles W. Beck, Jr.--Philadelphia." This calendar was done by two of the premier women illustrators, who were students and close friends of Howard Pyle. There are three designs by each and are fine examples of thier styles. Design...

Date: 1903

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198856

Ref. Code: GC002.02.119

Exterior view of Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee, Boston, Mass., June 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1869

The National Peace Jubilee was a music festival held June 15-19, 1869 in Boston to commemorate the end of the Civil War. The Boston Coliseum, which housed the event, was designed by William Preston and intended to be a temporary structure. The event was organized by composer and bandmaster Patrick G...

Date: 1869

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198858

Ref. Code: GC002.02.004

Latin & English High School Buildings, Boston, Mass.

This rheotype shows an explicit view of the two schools with people walking around in front of them. George A. Clough, city architect, designed the buildings.

Date: 1878

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198859

Ref. Code: GC002.02.006a

New Boston and Charles River Basin

This colored lithograph shows a prospective view of the Charles River Basin. The top half is a map of the Basin area and park system. A legend is included at the bottom which describes a plan for developing the river frontage. Engraved for Charles Davenport - first Projector of Embankment.

Date: ca. 1885

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198860

Ref. Code: GC002.02.007a

View of the proposed block on the site of the dock between Long and Central Wharves, in Boston

This shows a detailed view of a granite warehouse building with delivery wagons and a rare view of the side of the Customs House.

Date: ca. 1857

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198861

Ref. Code: GC002.02.008b

Sewall, Day & Co.'s Cordage Manufactory, Boston

This lithograph shows an explicit representation of the factory and offices of Sewall, Day & Co. with wagons carrying cordage.

Date: ca. 1862

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198862

Ref. Code: GC002.02.009a

A prospective view of part of the Commons

This print was taken from a watercolor owned by the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1902. It shows the Common, a detailed view of the Hancock House, Beacon Hill, the beacon, and the 29th Regiment and field pieces. Black ink on white paper, no. 32 of an edition of 75 - plate destroyed.

Date: 1902

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198863

Ref. Code: GC002.02.010

Advertisement for Cast steel saws manufactured by Welch & Griffiths

This handbill for Welch & Griffiths circular saws shows an engraving of the factory at the top with description and warranty below. There is an elaborate border around the whole handbill.

Date: 1842-1852

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198864

Ref. Code: GC002.02.011

City Hall, Boston, Mass.

This slightly sepia-toned lithograph shows very good architectural detail of City Hall with an impressionistic view of landscaping and Niles building next to City Hall in shadows. There are groupings of people in front and the legend gives the dates of building construction and names of the buildin...

Date: ca. 1865

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198865

Ref. Code: GC002.02.012

Chauncy Hall School & First Congregational Church

This sepia-toned lithograph shows good architectural detail on both Chauncy Hall and the church with a grouping of young boys, carriages and men riding.

Date: 1857

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198866

Ref. Code: GC002.02.013

Old State House as it is, as it was, Boston, Mass., 1876

The structure is shown from the east side, State Street, in 1876 with many alterations and additions. The building as it was in 1748 is the smaller image. The Massachusetts state seal and the Boston seal are included. If the imageis enlarged it is possible to see the many businesses using it in this...

Date: 1876

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198867

Ref. Code: GC002.02.014

The Village elms Sunday morning in New England

A scene of late 19th century American village life, with stately elms, horses and buggies and old homes. The village church can also be seen in the background, with people in their "Sunday best." Given by Jane N. Grew, August 13. 1920.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198869

Ref. Code: GC002.02.120

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