Historic New England

Southwest Harbor

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Collection: Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection

GUSN: 395174

Ref. Code: PC102.030.060

Animals

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Collection: Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection

GUSN: 395175

Ref. Code: PC102.090.010

Buildings

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Collection: Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection

GUSN: 395176

Ref. Code: PC102.090.020

Landscapes

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Collection: Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection

GUSN: 395177

Ref. Code: PC102.090.030

People

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Collection: Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection

GUSN: 395178

Ref. Code: PC102.090.040

Autograph album of Mary Willie Bowley, 1923-1929

Album has approximately 100 pages most of which have writing. The album has a brown cover and word Autographs printed on the front. Mary Willie Bowley's name is written on the first page. This small album contains many signatures with accompanying wishes, poems, and other sentiments. Signat...

Date: 1923-1929, undated

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 395313

Ref. Code: MS029.002.061

Two ribbons from "America's Blue Ribbon Track", Tauton, Massachusetts, undated

Taunton Dog Track opened in 1935 and closed in 1981. "For decades, the Taunton track became a local institution, drawing thousands of spectators who packed the grandstands to cheer on their favorites. It wasnt just about the races-it was a social event where families, friends, and racing enthus...

Date: 1935-1981, undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 395314

Ref. Code: EP001.21.03.002

Summer homes and camps; containing suggestions, hints, and practical ideas, sketches, plans, etc., for the building of summer houses, by Frank T. Lent ... with illus. by the author.

97 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: Lent, Frank T. (Frank Townsend), b. 1855.

GUSN: 147409

Call Number: Stacks NA7561.L6

Wood structural design data.

v. illus. 28 cm.

Date: 1941-

Creators: National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

GUSN: 147410

Call Number: Stacks TA666.N31 v.1

What makes the house beautiful; a collection of building details with measured drawings. Edited by Henrietta C. Peabody.

69, [1] p. illus. (incl. plans) 32 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Peabody, Henrietta C., comp.

GUSN: 147411

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7125.P4 1920

Villas & palaces of Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580. English translations from Palladio's "I quattro libri dell'architettura" by la contessa Maria Teresa Ceschi a Santa Croce. Color photographs by Franca Parisi Baslini and Anna Pressi.

lxxxi, 373 p. illus. 31 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Roop, Guy.

GUSN: 147412

Call Number: Stacks NA1123.P2 R63

The rules of work of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1786, with the original copper plate illustrations. Annotated, with an introd., by Charles E. Peterson.

xxiii, xv, 47 p. 35 plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Peterson, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1906- Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia.

GUSN: 147413

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.C25 1971 (and 1 more)

Without benefit of architect, by Frazier Forman Peters.

xv p., l¾., 211 p. incl. front., diagr. 20 cm.

Date: [c1937]

Creators: Peters, Frazier Forman.

GUSN: 147414

Call Number: Stacks TH148.P4

Radford's artistic homes, 250 designs.

261 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Radford Architectural Co.

GUSN: 147415

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.R252 1908

Problems in carpentry, a course in practical carpentry for manual training classes, by Louis M. Roehl.

111 p. incl. front. illus., plates. 19 x 22 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Roehl, Louis Michael, 1881-

GUSN: 147416

Call Number: Stacks TH5606.R7

Shaker furniture; the craftsmanship of an American communal sect, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews. Photos. by William F. Winter.

xi, 133 p. 48 plates. 28 cm.

Date: 1950 [c1937]

Creators: Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964. Andrews, Faith. joint author.

GUSN: 147417

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.A7 1950

Antique furniture in Suffield, Connecticut, 1670-1835.

ix, 128 p. 61 plates (incl. facsims.) 28 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Bissell, Charles S.

GUSN: 147418

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.S8 B5

Centuries and styles of the American chair, 1640-1970, by Robert Bishop. Foreword by Charles F. Hummel.

516 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Bishop, Robert Charles.

GUSN: 147419

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.B55 (and 2 more)

Boston furniture of the eighteenth century : a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11 and 12 May 1972.

xvi, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 147420

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v.48 c.1 (and 4 more)

The house beautiful : essays on beds and tables, stools and candlesticks / by Clarence Cook.

336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1881, c1877.

Creators: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900.

GUSN: 147421

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.C8 1881

Sloan's Victorian buildings : illustrations of and floor plans for 56 residences & other structures / Samuel Sloan ; with an introduction by Harold N. Cooledge, Jr.

2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884. Cooledge, Harold N.

GUSN: 147422

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7207.S6 1980

Early American furniture, by Charles Over Cornelius ...

xx, 278 p. front., illus., LXIII pl. 22 cm.

Date: [c1926]

Creators: Cornelius, Charles Over, 1890-1937.

GUSN: 147423

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.C6

Southern yellow pine; a manual of standard wood construction.

186, xii p. incl. tables. diagrs. (1 fold.) 18 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Southern Pine Association.

GUSN: 147424

Call Number: Stacks TA419.S7

Shaker furniture, the craftsmanship of an American communal sect, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews; photographs by William F. Winter.

2 p. ¾., [vii]-xi, [1], 133, [1] p. 48 pl. (incl. front.) on 25 ¾. 29 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964. Andrews, Faith, joint author.

GUSN: 147425

Call Number: Coll. NK2405.A7

The book of furniture and decoration: period and modern.

358 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1941]

Creators: Aronson, Joseph, 1898-

GUSN: 147426

Call Number: Stacks NK2230.A7 1941a

English furniture illustrated / revised and edited by H. Clifford Smith.

404 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 1958.

Creators: Brackett, Oliver.

GUSN: 147427

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.B7

In pursuit of beauty : Americans and the Aesthetic movement / Doreen Bolger Burke ... [et al.].

511 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Bolger, Doreen, 1949- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 147428

Call Number: Ref. N6510.5.E25 I5 1986 (and 1 more)

Portfolio of homes designed by Robert L. Stevenson, architect.

203 p. : ill., plans ; 28 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), b. 1883.

GUSN: 147429

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.S74 1930

American furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century styles / by Helen Comstock.

336 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Comstock, Helen.

GUSN: 147430

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.C58 c.1 (and 1 more)

The American heritage history of American antiques from the Revolution to the Civil War, by the editors of American heritage. Author and editor in charge, Marshall B. Davidson.

416 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., ports. 29 cm.

Date: [1968]

Creators: Davidson, Marshall B.

GUSN: 147431

Call Number: Ref. NK806.D37 c.1 (and 2 more)

The modern house-carpenter's companion and builders guide : being a hand-book for workmen, and a manual of reference for contractors and builders / by W. A. Sylvester.

210 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: c1883.

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

GUSN: 147432

Call Number: Stacks TH5608.S97 1883b

The rocking chair book / Ellen and Bert Denker ; foreword by Kenneth L. Ames.

192 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Denker, Ellen. Denker, Bert, 1946- joint author.

GUSN: 147433

Call Number: 85M Stacks TS886.5.C45 D46 1979 c.1 (and 1 more)

American furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, by Joseph Downs. Foreword by Henry Francis du Pont.

1 v. (various pagings) illus., col. plates. 31 cm.

Date: [1967, c1952]

Creators: Downs, Joseph. Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880- Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 147434

Call Number: Coll. NK2406.D69

The bungalow book, by Charles E. White, jr. Drawings by the author.

7 p. ¾., 221 p. illus., plates, plans. 21 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: White, Charles Elmer, 1876-

GUSN: 147435

Call Number: Stacks NA7571.W5

Windsor chairmaking / by Michael Dunbar ; photos. by Eric White.

153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Dunbar, Michael.

GUSN: 147436

Call Number: Coll. TS886.5.C45 D86

The practical book of period furniture : treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods / by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbot McClure ; With 250 illustrations ; the colour plate and text illustrations from drawings by Abbot McClure.

371 p., [67] pages of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Eberlein, Harold Donaldson. McClure, Abbot, 1879-

GUSN: 147437

Call Number: Coll. NK2230.E3 1914a

The furniture of historic Deerfield / Dean A. Fales, Jr.

294 p. : ill. (some col.), map (on lining paper) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Fales, Dean A.

GUSN: 147438

Call Number: Coll. NK2410.F34 1976 (and 2 more)

Colonial interiors; photographs and measured drawings of the colonial and early federal periods, by Leigh French, Jr., A.I.A., with an introduction by Charles Over Cornelius.

xvi p., 125 pl., 1 ¾. front. 34 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: French, Leigh, 1894-1946.

GUSN: 147439

Call Number: Stacks NA707.F7

The homes of our ancestors, as shown in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old World a style of their own; with an account of the social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms. By R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower; illustrated with many elegant plates.

xxvi, 302 p. mounted col. front., illus., plates (part mounted col.) ports., map. facsims. 26 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942. Tower, Elizabeth, joint author.

GUSN: 147440

Call Number: Stacks N611.A6 H3 1925a c.2 (and 2 more)

The furnishing of a modest home, by Fred Hamilton Daniels.

114 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Daniels, Fred Hamilton, 1872-

GUSN: 147441

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK2115.D2 1908

The cabinetmakers of America, by Ethel Hall Bjerkoe assisted by John Arthur Bjerkoe. Foreword by Russell Kettell.

xvii, 252 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall.

GUSN: 147442

Call Number: Ref. NK2406.B55

The homes of our ancestors, as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the Republic; by R. T. H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower.

xxvi, 302 p. illus. (part col.) ports. (part col.) map. 26 cm.

Date: 1929 [c1925]

Creators: Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942. Tower, Elizabeth, joint author. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

GUSN: 147443

Call Number: Coll. N611.A6 H3 1929 c.1

The Connoisseur's complete period guides to the houses, decoration, furnishing and chattels of the classic periods / edited by Ralph Edwards and L. G. G. Ramsey.

1536 p. : ill., facsim., plans, ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1968, c1958.

Creators: Edwards, Ralph, 1894- ed. Ramsey, L. G. G., ed.

GUSN: 147444

Call Number: Stacks NK928.C63 1968 (and 1 more)

High styles : twentieth-century American design / introduction by Lisa Phillips ; essays by David A. Hanks ... [et al.].

xi, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Phillips, Lisa. Hanks, David A. Whitney Museum of American Art.

GUSN: 147445

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK1404.H53 1985 (and 1 more)

Old English furniture : its designers and craftsmen / M. Harris and Sons.

69 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1935]

Creators: M. Harris and Sons.

GUSN: 147446

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.H18

Finders' guide to decorative arts in the Smithsonian Institution / Christine Minter-Dowd.

213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Minter-Dowd, Christine. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 147447

Call Number: Ref. NK460.W3 S67 1984

Innovative furniture in America from 1800 to the present : [exhibition] / David A. Hanks ; introduction by Russell Lynes ; with essays by Rodris Roth and Page Talbott ; participating museums, Cooper-Hewitt Museum ... [et al.].

200 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Hanks, David A. Roth, Rodris. Talbott, Page. Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

GUSN: 147448

Call Number: Coll. TS805.H3

Identifying American furniture : a pictorial guide to styles and terms, colonial to contemporary / Milo M. Naeve.

87 p. : ill. ; 16 x 24 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Naeve, Milo M. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 147449

Call Number: Stacks NK2405.N28 (and 3 more)

The work of many hands : card tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 / Benjamin A. Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, Gerald W.R. Ward.

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

Date: 1982.

Creators: Hewitt, Benjamin A. Kane, Patricia E. Ward, Gerald W. R. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 147450

Call Number: Stacks NK2740.H48 1982 (and 2 more)

The House beautiful furnishing annual, 1925.

vii, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955. Interior design, an introductory chapter.

GUSN: 147451

Call Number: Stacks NK2110.H6 1925 c.1 (and 1 more)

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