Historic New England

Old historic homes of Cheshire, Connecticut, with an account of the early settlement of the town, description of its churches, academy and old town cemetery, places of interest--Roaring brook, Scott's rock, barytes and copper mines, ancient trees, etc. Compiled by Edwin R. Brown. Illustrated by John R. Paddock.

138 p. incl. plates, ports. 21 x 27 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Brown, Edwin Roys, d. 1930, comp. Paddock, John R., illus.

GUSN: 148377

Call Number: Stacks F104.C5 B8

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire, a history.

288 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930, comp.

GUSN: 148378

Call Number: Stacks HD9879.A5 B7

Life in Danbury : being a brief but comprehensive record of the doings of a remarkable people under more remarkable circumstances and chronicled in a most remarkable manner / by the author James M. Bailey ; and carefully compiled with a pair of eight-dollar shears, by the compiler.

303 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Bailey, James M. (James Montgomery), 1841-1894.

GUSN: 148379

Call Number: Stacks PN6161.B275 1873b

East Hartford : its history and traditions / Joseph O. Goodwin.

249 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Goodwin, Joseph Olcott.

GUSN: 148380

Call Number: Stacks F104.E18 G6 1976

Greens Farms, Connecticut, the old West parish of Fairfield ... historical sketches and reminiscences, by George Penfield Jennings.

5 p. ¾., 152 p. front., plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1933.

Creators: Jennings, George Penfield, 1855-1933.

GUSN: 148381

Call Number: Stacks F104.G75 J3

Semi-centennial of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire September 6, 7, 8, 9, 1896. Compiled by Herbert W. Eastman.

204 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 26 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Eastman, Herbert Walter, comp. 1857-1898, Manchester (N.H.)

GUSN: 148382

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 M2 1897

Black Rock, seaport of old Fairfield, Connecticut, 1644-1870; pages of history gathered by Cornelia Penfield Lathrop, including the Journal of William Wheeler, with maps, illustrations & genealogies, fully indexed.

xi, [1], 214 p. front., illus. (incl. facsim.) plates, maps. 25 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Lathrop, Cornelia Penfield, 1892- ed. Wheeler, William, 1762-1845.

GUSN: 148383

Call Number: Stacks F104.B52 L35

Manchester of yesterday; a human interest story of its past, with one hundred illustrations, including rare wood engravings of old pioneers and places, by L. Ashton Thorp.

xxv, [1] p., 2 ¾., 561 p. : incl. front., illus. 24 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Thorp, Louis Ashton, 1876-

GUSN: 148384

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 T56

Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. Photographic reproductions, illustrating every home in the town. Prominent people past and present, all of the school children, local antiques, etc.

212 p., 1 ¾. incl. front. (facsim.) illus. pl. 32 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Brandegee, Arthur L., comp. Smith, Eddy N., joint comp.

GUSN: 148385

Call Number: Stacks F104.F4 B8

Farmington papers [by] Julius Gay.

4 p.¾., 5-338 p. front., illus., plates, port., facsims. 22 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Gay, Julius, 1834-1918. O'Connor, Alice Keats, d. 1928, ed.

GUSN: 148386

Call Number: Stacks F104.F4 G276

Other days in Greenwich, or, Tales and reminiscences of an old New England town / by Frederick A. Hubbard.

xviii, 346 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Hubbard, Frederick A.

GUSN: 148387

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 H8

The stone records of Groton, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins; ed. by Emily S. Gilman.

96 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, 1795-1869. Gilman, Emily Serena, 1835- ed.

GUSN: 148388

Call Number: Stacks F104.G84 C3

Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. / by local writers ; Charles F. Burgess, editor and publisher.

101 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1909.

Creators: Burgess, Charles F.

GUSN: 148389

Call Number: Stacks F104.G84 B9

Yester-years of Guilford, by Mary Hoadley Griswold.

165 p. double front., plates. 24 cm.

Date: [c1938]

Creators: Griswold, Mary Hoadley.

GUSN: 148390

Call Number: Stacks F104.G9 G7

Old Guilford, including the land now consistuting the towns of Guilford and Madison; drawings, text and hand lettering by Charles D. Hubbard.

3 p. ¾., 51, [1] p. front., illus. (incl. map) 26 cm.

Date: c1939]

Creators: Hubbard, Charles Daniel, 1876-1951.

GUSN: 148391

Call Number: Stacks F104.G9 H83

A century in Hartford, being the history of the Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company in relation to the hundred years of local and national progress and experiences and the world development in invention and discoveries-- the age of marvels, written by Charles W. Burpee.

xi p. 1 l., 363 p. front., illus., plates, ports., double map, facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Burpee, Charles Winslow.

GUSN: 148392

Call Number: Stacks HG9898.H3 B3

The city of Hartford and vicinity and their resources / compiled and managed by J. H. Sutherland.

246, [5] p. : ill., ports., plates ; 27 x 32 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Sutherland, John H

GUSN: 148393

Call Number: Stacks F104.H3 S97

The Hartford State House of 1796.

x, 68 p. illus., facsims., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1964?]

Creators: Brainard, Newton Case, 1880-1964. Connecticut Historical Society.

GUSN: 148394

Call Number: Stacks F104.H3 B83

Harvard guide to American history.

2 v. (xxx, 1290 p.) 25 cm.

Date: 1974.

Creators: Freidel, Frank Burt. Showman, Richard K., joint author. Handlin, Oscar, 1915- Harvard guide to American history.

GUSN: 148395

Call Number: Ref. Z1236.F77 1974

Monument, the Connecticut State Capitol / edited by David Park Curry and Patricia Dawes Pierce to accompany an exhibition celebrating the centennial of the capitol's completion, held at the Old State House, Hartford, with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

107 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Curry, David Park. Pierce, Patricia Dawes.

GUSN: 148396

Call Number: Stacks NA4413.H3 M66

Clarke's Manchester directory / compiled and published by John B. Clarke.

2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1883-1884

Creators: Clarke, John B., compiler.

GUSN: 148397

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 C53 vol.5 1883

Portraits of a nineteenth century family : a symposium on the Beecher family / edited by Earl A. French and Diana Royce.

127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: French, Earl A. Royce, Diana.

GUSN: 148398

Call Number: Stacks CS71.B4405 1976

The Mechanic. (Monthly)

1 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1834.

Creators: Mechanic Fund Association.

GUSN: 148399

Call Number: Stacks T1.M43 1834 Jan-Dec

Colonial history of the parish of Mount Carmel as read in its geologic formations, records and traditions, by John H. Dickerman ...

109, [1] p. incl. front., illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Dickerman, John H.

GUSN: 148400

Call Number: Stacks F104.M92 D5

Historic Lebanon; highlights of an historic town.

79 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Armstrong, Robert G. (Robert Grenville), 1888-

GUSN: 148401

Call Number: Stacks F104.L4 A7

Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833, being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school, comp. by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel. Ed. by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel.

465 p. front., plates, ports., facsims., charts (1 col.) 25 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939. Buel, Elizabeth Cynthia Barney, 1868-1943, ed.

GUSN: 148402

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.L7 V2 (and 1 more)

More chronicles of a pioneer school, from 1792 to 1833, being added history on the Litchfield Female Academy kept by Miss Sarah Pierce and her nephew, John Pierce Brace, compiled by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel ...

xii p., 1 ¾., 376 p. front., plates, ports., map. 25 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939. Brace, John Pierce, 1793-1872.

GUSN: 148403

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.L7 V3

History of the First Unitarian Society in Dunstable, now Nashua, 1826-1926 / by Leonard Freeman Burbank.

82 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1926]

Creators: Burbank, Leonard Freeman.

GUSN: 148404

Call Number: Stacks F44.N2 B87 1926

History and antiquities of New Haven, (Conn.) from its earliest settlement to the present time. Collected and comp. from the most authentic sources. / by J.W. Barber.

108 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., maps (part col.) ; 19 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, comp.

GUSN: 148405

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 B2

History of New Boston, New Hampshire. Comp. and written by Elliott C. Cogswell.

469 p. plates, ports., fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Cogswell, Elliott C. (Elliott Colby), 1814-1887.

GUSN: 148406

Call Number: Stacks F44.N5 C6

New Haven, a guide to architecture and urban design / Elizabeth Mills Brown ; [photos. by Gilbert Kenna, Ray Schmakel, and Lee Tabor].

ix, 228 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Brown, Elizabeth Mills.

GUSN: 148407

Call Number: Stacks NA735.N39 B76

Yale and "The city of elms," by W. E. Decrow. Illustrated with heliotypes of all the principal college buildings, a plan of the college grounds,and a map of the city of New Haven.

xi, [1], 130 p., 1 l. illus., 14 pl., double plan. 20 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Decrow, W. E. (William Emery), 1853-1905.

GUSN: 148408

Call Number: Stacks LD6338.D18

Colonial houses of New Haven / photographs and descriptions by Susan C. Gower.

32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Gower, Susan Charlotte.

GUSN: 148409

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 G7

New Haven, a book recording the varied activities of the author in his efforts over many years to promote the welfare of the city of his adoption since 1883, together with some researches into its storied past and many illustrations, by George Dudley Seymour ...

xxvi, 805 p. front., illus. (incl. ports., plans, facsims.) 25 cm.

Date: 1942.

Creators: Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945.

GUSN: 148410

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 S37

The United Church on the green, New Haven, Connecticut; an architectural history.

47 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Brown, Elizabeth Mills.

GUSN: 148411

Call Number: Stacks NA5235.N55 B7

A journey through Boston Irish history / Dennis P. Ryan.

127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Ryan, Dennis P., 1943-

GUSN: 148712

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.I6 R93 1999x

Eighteenth-century clothing at Williamsburg / by Linda Baumgarten ; introduction by Mildred B. Lanier.

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

Date: c1986.

Creators: Baumgarten, Linda. DeWitt Wallace Gallery of Decorative Arts.

GUSN: 148713

Call Number: Stacks GT617.V8 B38 1986 c. 1 (and 1 more)

American furniture, 1620 to the present / Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Elizabeth Bidwell Bates.

xii, 561 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Fairbanks, Jonathan L. Bates, Elizabeth Bidwell.

GUSN: 148714

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.F34 (and 2 more)

The cabinet-maker & upholsterer's guide [by] George Hepplewhite.

viii, 24 p. 123 illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Hepplewhite, George, d. 1786. A. Hepplewhite and Co.

GUSN: 148715

Call Number: Coll. TT196.H4 1969

American tables and looking glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University / by David L. Barquist ; essays by Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett and Gerald W.R. Ward ; photographs by Charles Uht.

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

Date: 1992.

Creators: Barquist, David L. Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. Ward, Gerald W. R.

GUSN: 148716

Call Number: Coll. NK2740.B37 1992 c.1 (and 2 more)

Victorian furniture with prices / David P. Lindquist and Caroline C. Warren.

viii, 200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Lindquist, David P. Warren, Caroline C.

GUSN: 148717

Call Number: Coll. NK2390.L56 1995

Four centuries of American furniture / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

xiv, 401 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Fitzgerald, Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Oscar P. Three centuries of American furniture.

GUSN: 148718

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.F58 1995 c.1 (and 1 more)

John Hall and the Grecian style in America : a reprint of three pattern books published in Baltimore in 1840 / with an illustrated essay by Thomas Gordon Smith.

1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Hall, John, b. 1809 or 10. Smith, Thomas Gordon, 1948. Hall, John, b. 1809 or 10. Cabinet makers' assistant. Hall, John, b. 1809 or 10. Series of selected and original modern designs for dwelling houses. Hall, John, b. 1809 or 10. New and concise method of hand-railing.

GUSN: 148719

Call Number: Coll. TT197.H235 1996

American furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. II; Late colonial period: the Queen Anne and Chippendale styles. Edited by Mary-Alice Rogers and photographs by Richard Cheek.

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

Date: c1985.

Creators: Heckscher, Morrison H. Rogers, Mary-Alice.

GUSN: 148720

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.H43 1985 c.1 (and 1 more)

The geography of American antiques. Text and illustrations by Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild.

xx, 283 p. col. front., illus. 25 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Guild, Lurelle Van Arsdale, 1898-

GUSN: 148721

Call Number: Coll. NK806.G8

Courts and colonies : the William and Mary style in Holland, England and America / Reiner Baarsen, Philipp M.Johnston, Gervase Jackson-Stops, Elaine Evans Dee.

249 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Baarsen, Reinier. Jackson-Stops, Gervase. Johnston, Philip M. Dee, Elaine Evans.

GUSN: 148722

Call Number: Coll. NK1352.C6 1988 (and 1 more)

Culture & comfort : people, parlors, and upholstery, 1850-1930 / Katherine C. Grier.

x, 339 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Grier, Katherine C., 1953- Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum.

GUSN: 148723

Call Number: Coll. E166.G83 1988 (and 1 more)

The impecunious collector's guide to American antiques / John T. Kirk.

xvi, 178, vi p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 148725

Call Number: Coll. NK806.K5 1975 (and 1 more)

Herter Brothers : furniture and interiors for a gilded age / Katherine S. Howe ... [ et. al.].

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

Date: c1994.

Creators: Howe, Katherine S. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. High Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 148726

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.H43 A4 1994 (and 1 more)

Classical taste in America 1800-1840 / Wendy A. Cooper.

308 : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1993.

Creators: Cooper, Wendy A. Baltimore Museum of Art. Mint Museum (Charlotte, N.C.) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

GUSN: 148727

Call Number: Coll. N6510.5.N4 C66 1993 (and 2 more)

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