Historic New England

"Corners and characters of Rhode Island" / by George D. Laswell.

103 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1924.

Creators: Laswell, George D.

GUSN: 150752

Call Number: Stacks F80.L34

Illustrations of the seals, arms and flags of Rhode Island / with historical notes by Howard M. Chapin; and an introduction by Norman M. Isham.

ii, 77 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Chapin, Howard M., 1887-1940. Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864-1943. Rhode Island Historical Society.

GUSN: 150753

Call Number: Stacks CD5618.R4 C35 1930

Revolutionary defences in Rhode Island : an historical account of the fortifications and beacons erected during the American revolution, with muster rolls of the companies stationed along the shores of Narragansett bay / by Edward Field.

xvi, 161 p. : ill., plates, 2 fold. maps, 2 fold facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Field, Edward, 1858-1928.

GUSN: 150754

Call Number: Stacks F83.F54 1896

A short history of Rhode Island / by George Washington Greene.

xxvi, 356 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883.

GUSN: 150755

Call Number: Stacks F79.G79

The "Old Stone Bank" history of Rhode Island : presented by Providence Institution for Savings ...

4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1929 - 44.

Creators: Haley, John Williams, 1897- Providence Institution for Savings.

GUSN: 150756

Call Number: Stacks F79.P95 vol.1 (and 3 more)

An account of the churches in Rhode-Island : presented at an adjourned session of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Rhode-Island Baptist State Convention, Providence, November 8, 1853 / by Henry Jackson.

134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Jackson, Henry, 1798-1863.

GUSN: 150757

Call Number: Stacks F80.J14

Once upon a time in Rhode Island, by Katherine Pyle, illustrated by Helen B. Mason.

204, [2] p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: c1914]

Creators: Pyle, Katharine, d. 1938. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 150758

Call Number: Stacks F80.P98

The book of Rhode Island : an illustrated description of the advantages and opportunities of the state of Rhode Island and the progress that has been achieved, with historical sketches of many leading industries and a biographical record of citizens who have helped to produce the ... structure--historical, commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational ... / distributed by Rhode Island State bureau of information, in cooperation with Rhode Island conference of business associations, compilers and publishers.

299 p. : ill., port., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Rhode Island. State Bureau of Information. Rhode Island Conference of Business Associations.

GUSN: 150759

Call Number: Stacks F79.R49

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Rhode Island.

71 p. 29 cm.

Date: 1966.

Creators: United States. Bureau of the Census. United States. Census Office. 1st census, 1790.

GUSN: 150760

Call Number: Stacks F83.U5 1966

Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England. Printed by order of the General Assembly. Ed. by John Russell Bartlett, Secretary of State.

10 v. ports. 30 cm.

Date: 1856-65.

Creators: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886. Rhode Island.

GUSN: 150761

Call Number: Stacks F76.R293 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, September 24th , A.D. 1880 / Compiled by William J. Miller.

viii, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1880].

Creators: Miller, William Jones, 1818-1886.

GUSN: 150762

Call Number: Stacks F89.B8 C4

History of the town of East Greenwich and adjacent territory, from 1677 to 1877.

263 p. front., 2 pl. 20 cm.

Date: 1877.

Creators: Greene, D. H. (Daniel Howland), 1807-1886.

GUSN: 150763

Call Number: Stacks F89.E15 G7

History of Jamestown on Conanicut Island in the State of Rhode Island.

111 p. : ill., maps 24 cm.

Date: c1949]

Creators: Watson, Walter Leon, 1878-

GUSN: 150764

Call Number: Stacks F89.J3 W3 1949

South county studies of some eighteenth century persons, places & conditions in that portion of Rhode Island called Narragansett / by Esther Bernon Carpenter.

xv, 297, p. : plate ; 24 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Carpenter, Esther Bernon, 1848-1893. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

GUSN: 150765

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 C3

Collected papers on The inscribed rocks of Narragansett Bay, by Edmund B. Delabarre.

3 p. ¾., 149 p. illus. (incl. map) plates, charts. 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Delabarre, Edmund Burke, b. 1863.

GUSN: 150766

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 D2

Anchors of tradition; a presentment of some little known facts and persons in a small corner of colonial New England called Narragansett, to which are added certain weavings of fancy from the thread of life upon the loom of time, by Caroline Hazard.

viii, 242 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1924.

Creators: Hazard, Caroline, 1856-1945.

GUSN: 150767

Call Number: Stacks F87.N2 H4

Flags of the Old state house, Newport, R.I. / John Howard Benson.

20 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1942]

Creators: Benson, J. H.

GUSN: 150768

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 B46 1942

Early recollections of Newport, R. I. : from the year 1793 to 1811. By George G. Channing.

xiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Channing, George G. (George Gibbs), 1789-1881.

GUSN: 150769

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 C4

The American woman's home, or, Principles of domestic science : being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful and Christian homes / by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1869

Creators: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

GUSN: 150770

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX145.B415 1869

Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum.

247 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.

GUSN: 150670

Call Number: Stacks E161.E3 1972

Interpreting our heritage : principles and practices for visitor services in parks, museums, and historic places.

110 p. : ill. ' 24 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Tilden, Freeman, 1883-

GUSN: 150671

Call Number: Stacks E175.8.T67

The living past of America : pictorial treasury of our historic houses and villages that have been preserved and restored.

234 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1964.

Creators: Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1898-

GUSN: 150672

Call Number: Stacks E159.V35 1964

A Cabinet of curiosities : five episodes in the evolution of American museums / described by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. [and others] With an introd. by Walter Muir Whitehill.

xii, 166 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks)

GUSN: 150673

Call Number: Stacks AM11.C3

Introduction to museum work / G. Ellis Burcaw.

vi, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: Burcaw, George Ellis, 1921-

GUSN: 150674

Call Number: Stacks AM5.B88

Addresses on the occasion of the opening of the American wing.

5 p. ¾., 3-33, [1] p., 1 ¾ ; 25 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 150675

Call Number: Stacks N610.N4

Land use and the States / Robert G. Healy.

xi, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Healy, Robert G. Resources for the Future.

GUSN: 150676

Call Number: Stacks HD205 1976.H4

America's museums; the Belmont report. A report to the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

xviii, 81 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1968 [i.e. 1969]

Creators: American Association of Museums. Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

GUSN: 150677

Call Number: Stacks AM11.A58

Triumph on Fairmount : Fiske Kimball and the Philadelphia Museum of Art / by George and Mary Roberts.

321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1959]

Creators: Roberts, George, June 26, 1900- Roberts, Mary Howland.

GUSN: 150678

Call Number: Stacks N8375.K5 R6

Special cataloguing : with particular reference to music, films, maps, serials, and the multi-media computerised catalogue / by John Horner.

327 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Horner, John Leonard, 1926-

GUSN: 150679

Call Number: Stacks Z693.H67

Report on Project history retrieval : tests and demonstrations of an optic-coincidence system of information retrieval for historical materials / Elizabeth Ingerman Wood.

xiii, 123 p. (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1966]

Creators: Wood, Elizabeth Ingerman. Drexel Institute of Technology. Graduate School of Library Science. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 150680

Call Number: Stacks Z674.D7 no. 14

Interpretation of historic sites / William T. Alderson, Shirley Payne Low.

x, 189 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Alderson, William T. (William Thomas), 1926- Low, Shirley Payne.

GUSN: 150681

Call Number: Stacks E159.A36 c.1 (and 2 more)

A primer for local historical societies / by Dorothy Weyer Creigh.

ix, 153 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Creigh, Dorothy Weyer. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 150682

Call Number: Stacks E172.C783

Law and the visual arts / edited by Leonard D. DuBoff and Mary Ann Crawford DuBoff.

359 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1974]

Creators: DuBoff, Leonard D., ed. DuBoff, Mary Ann Crawford, ed. Northwestern School of Law. Law and the Visual Arts Conference, 1974. Portland, Or.,

GUSN: 150683

Call Number: Stacks KF4288.A75 L38 1974

Application of science in examination of works of art : proceedings of the seminar, September 7-9, 1965.

254 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Research Laboratory.

GUSN: 150684

Call Number: Stacks N8558.A674 1965

Life is a local story; a collection of talks concerning local history, historic sites and history museums, edited by Clement M. Silvestro.

85 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1964]

Creators: Silvestro, Clement M. ed. American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 150685

Call Number: Stacks E175.1.A5

The English dictionarie of 1623 / by Henry Cockeram ; with a prefatory note by Chauncey Brewster Tinker.

xxi, 196, [2] p., [1] double leaf of plates : facsim. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1930-

Creators: Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650. Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963.

GUSN: 150686

Call Number: Stacks PE1620.C65 1930

Glossary of supposed Americanisms / collected by Alfred L. Elwyn.

xi, 122 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1859.

Creators: Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, 1804-1884.

GUSN: 150687

Call Number: 85M Stacks PE2835.E5

The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States / by H. L. Mencken ; the fourth edition and the two supplements, abridged, with annotations and new material, by Raven I. McDavid, Jr., with the assistance of David W. Maurer.

xxv, 777, cxxiv p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1977, c1963.

Creators: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. McDavid, Raven Ioor.

GUSN: 150688

Call Number: Stacks PE2808.M43 1977

A critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the English language ... : to which are prefixed principles of English pronunciation ... Likewise, rules to be observed by the natives of Scotland, Ireland and London, for avoiding their respective peculiarities, and directions to foreigners, for acquiring a knowledge of the use of this dictionary ... To which is annexed a key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture proper names, &c. By John Walker.

71, 609, 8, [8]-11, [13]-103 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1827.

Creators: Walker, John, 1732-1807.

GUSN: 150689

Call Number: Rare PE1620.W3 1827 (and 1 more)

A new gazetteer of the United States of America : containing a copious description of the states, territories, counties, parishes, districts, cities and towns, mountains, lakes, rivers and canals, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and the arts generally, of the United States; embracing also the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of the principal subdivisions, the latitude and longitude of cities and towns, and their bearing and distance from important places; including other interesting and valuable geographical, historical, political, and statistical information : with the population of 1830 / by William Darby and Theodore Dwight, Jr.

iv p., p. [9]-630 ; 24 cm.

Date: 1833, c1832.

Creators: Darby, William, 1775-1854. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866.

GUSN: 150690

Call Number: Stacks E154.N49 1833

A new gazetteer of the United States of America : containing a copious description of the states, territories, counties, parishes, districts, cities and towns, mountains, lakes, rivers and canals, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and the arts generally, of the United States; embracing also the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of the principal subdivisions, the latitude and longitude of cities and towns, and their bearing and distance from important places; including other interesting and valuable geographical, historical, political, and statistical information : with the population of 1830 / by William Darby and Theodore Dwight, Jr.

iv p., p. [9]-630 ; 24 cm.

Date: 1833, c1832.

Creators: Darby, William, 1775-1854. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866.

GUSN: 150691

Call Number: Stacks E154.N49 1833

A new and complete statistical gazetteer of the United States of America : founded on and compiled from official federal and state returns, and the seventh national census / by Richard Swainson Fisher.

960 p. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1858.

Creators: Fisher, Richard Swainson.

GUSN: 150692

Call Number: Stacks E154.F53 1858

A complete descriptive and statistical gazetteer of the United States of America ... with an abstract of the census and statistics for 1840, exhibiting a complete view of the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, and literary condition and resources of the country. By Daniel Haskel ... and J. Calvin Smith ...

752 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1843.

Creators: Haskel, Daniel, 1784-1848, comp. Smith, John Calvin.

GUSN: 150693

Call Number: Stacks E154.H33

Burley's United States centennial gazetteer and guide, 1876 : containing plans of the Centennial buildings and grounds ... / Charles Holland Kidder, editor.

892 p. : ill. cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Kidder, Charles Holland. Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

GUSN: 150694

Call Number: Stacks E158.B96

Gazetteer of Hampshire County, Mass., 1654-1887 / compiled and edited by W.B. Gay.

312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [18--?].

Creators: Gay, W. B. (William Burton).

GUSN: 150695

Call Number: Stacks F72.H3 G2 1800z

The New England gazetteer; containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England; also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers, lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts within that territory. Alphabetically arranged / by John Hayward.

[510] p : ill., plates ; 21 cm.

Date: 1839.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150696

Call Number: Rare F2.H434 1839 c.1 (and 1 more)

The New England gazetteer : containing descriptions of all the states, counties, and towns in New England : also descriptions of the principal mountains, rivers, lakes, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts within that territory : alphabetically arranged / by John Hayward ...

[516], [5]-16 p. (first p. blank); 8 ill. (wood engravings) ; 20 cm. (12 mo. in 6s)

Date: 1841

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150697

Call Number: Stacks F2.H45

A gazetteer of Massachusetts, containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and districts in the commonwealth : also, of its principal mountains, rivers, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts. To which are added, statistical accounts of its agriculture, commerce and manufactures; with a great variety of other useful information.

452, 4 p. : ill, plates ; 20 cm.

Date: 1849.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150698

Call Number: Stacks F62.H42 1849

The Columbian traveller, and statistical register. Principally relating to the United States. November, 1833.

40 p. 4 maps. 27 cm.

Date: [1833]

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862.

GUSN: 150699

Call Number: Stacks E165.H42

A gazetteer of the United States of America ... to which are added valuable statistical tables, and a map of the United States. By John Hayward ...

861 p. incl. illus., tables. port., fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Hayward, John, 1781-1862, comp.

GUSN: 150700

Call Number: Stacks E154.H45

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