Historic New England

Making culture visible :the public display of photography at fairs, expositions, and exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 /Julie K. Brown.

192 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Brown, Julie K.

GUSN: 249605

Call Number: 85M Stacks T395.5.U6 B768 2001

The master list of design projects of the Olmsted firm, 1857-1979 /edited by Lucy Lawliss, Caroline Loughlin, Lauren Meier.

xix, 347 : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Lawliss, Lucy. Loughlin, Caroline. Meier, Lauren. National Association for Olmsted Parks (U.S.)

GUSN: 249606

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 B48 2008

Extraordinary tenure :Massachusetts and the making of the nation : from President Adams to Speaker O'Neill /Neil J. Savage.

400 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: c2004.

Creators: Savage, Neil J., 1929-

GUSN: 249607

Call Number: Stacks F63.S28 2004

Pen sketches of old houses /by Wm. E. Barry ; reprinted from the 1874 edition with an introduction by Kevin D. Murphy ; edited by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

xvii, 61 p. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c2002.

Creators: Barry, William E. (William Edward), 1846-1932. Murphy, Kevin D. Shettleworth, Earle G.

GUSN: 249608

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7206.B37 2002

Weymouth /William J. and Elaine A. Pepe.

128 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 2004.

Creators: Pepe, William J. Pepe, Elaine A.

GUSN: 249609

Call Number: Stacks F74.W77 P46 2004

Shipwrecks and nautical lore of Boston Harbor :a mariner's chronicle of more than 100 shipwrecks, heroic rescues, salvage, treasure tales, island legends, and maritime anecdotes /by Robert F. Sullivan.

xii, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Sullivan, Robert F.

GUSN: 249610

Call Number: Stacks G525.S894 1990

There are no victors here :a local perspective on the Treaty of Portsmouth /by Peter E. Randall.

xi, 105 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Randall, Peter, 1940-

GUSN: 249611

Call Number: Stacks DS517.7.R36 1985

See the USA :the art of the American travel brochure /by John Margolies ; design by Eric Baker Design Associates.

127 p.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Margolies, John. Eric Baker Design Associates.

GUSN: 249612

Call Number: Stacks G155.U6 M329 2000

South Boston /Jim Sullivan.

127 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Sullivan, Jim, 1951-

GUSN: 249613

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.S7 S85 2007

Samuel McIntire :carving an American style /Dean T. Lahikainen.

300 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Lahikainen, Dean T., 1951- Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 249614

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.M25 A4 2007 c.1 (and 2 more)

Museum archives :an introduction /Society of American Archivists, Museum Archives Section ; Deborah Wythe, editor.

xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c2004.

Creators: Wythe, Deborah. Society of American Archivists. Museum Archives Section.

GUSN: 249693

Call Number: Stacks AM158.M88 2004

Mistress Bradstreet :the untold life of America's first poet /Charlotte Gordon.

xiii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm., This [book offers] the gripping story of a woman and poet of great feeling struggling to find a language to describe the country in which she finds herself. It also offers a rich and complex portrait of early America, the Puritans, and the trials ...

Date: 2005.

Creators: Gordon, Charlotte.

GUSN: 251683

Call Number: Stacks PS712.G67 2005

New England Quaker meetinghouses :past and present /by Silas B. Weeks.

xv, 171 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Weeks, Silas B. (Silas Burling), 1914-

GUSN: 251684

Call Number: Stacks NA5215.W44 2001

Master of Woodland Hill :Benjamin Bussey of Boston (1757-1842) /Mary Jane McClintock Wilson.

58 p. : ill., maps, port. : 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Wilson, Mary Jane McClintock.

GUSN: 251685

Call Number: Stacks CT275.B87 W54 2006

Quiet, well kept, for sensible people :the development of Kennebunk Beach from 1860-1930 /Rosalind Magnuson, curator.

ix, 116 p. : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Magnuson, Rosalind. Brick Store Museum.

GUSN: 251686

Call Number: Stacks F29.K3 M34 2000

A painter's progress :the life, work, and travels of Harrison B. Brown of Portland, Maine /compiled by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

2 v. : port. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2005-2006

Creators: Brown, Harrison Bird, 1831-1915 Shettleworth, Earle G. Portland Transcript. (Portland, Me.)

GUSN: 251687

Call Number: Stacks ND237.B8735 B76 2005

Joiners and their price books :in Portland, Maine, 1760-1819 /Laura Fecych Sprague, Amy Cole Ives, and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

62 p. : ill., facsim. ; 22 x 22 cm., "This volume reprints three rare American joiners' price books. All three originated in Portland. The first is a unique manuscript from the Colonial Period ... containing carpenters' rules of work of 1760. The others are facsimile reproductions of two editions of...

Date: 2003.

Creators: Sprague, Laura Fecych, 1954- Ives, Amy Cole. Shettleworth, Earle G. Association for Preservation Technology International. Maine Historic Preservation Commission.

GUSN: 251688

Call Number: Stacks TH5614.J65 2003

His window on the world :the Piscataqua and the days of Hopley Yeaton /by Barbara L. DiFrancesco.

xii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c1997.

Creators: DiFrancesco, Barbara L.

GUSN: 251689

Call Number: Stacks E263.N4 Y43 1997

Stonehurst :the Robert Treat Paine estate : an American masterwork by H.H. Richardson and F.L. Olmsted /Ann Clifford and Thomas M. Paine ; with many new photographs by Thomas P. Lang.

39 p. : ill. (some col.), plans (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Clifford, Ann. Paine, Thomas M. Lang, Thomas P. Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust.

GUSN: 251690

Call Number: Stacks F74.W2 S76 2007 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Estey reed organs on parade :a pictorial review of the many parlour, cabinet, boudoir, philharmonic, and other types of reed organs made over a 100-year period by the famous Estey Organ Company, together with a brief corporate history /[compiled by] Robert B. Whiting.

vi, 150 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1981]

Creators: Whiting, Robert B., 1920- Estey Organ Company.

GUSN: 251691

Call Number: Stacks ML155.E88 1981

The quiet landscapes of William B. Post /Christian A. Peterson.

98 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: c2005.

Creators: Peterson, Christian A. Post, William B., 1857-1921. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

GUSN: 251692

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR647.P667 2005

Pyrex prize recipes.

128 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1953]

Creators: Corning Glass Works.

GUSN: 251693

Call Number: Stacks TX715.C816 1953

Masters of American garden design IV :influences on American garden design : 1895-1940 : proceedings of the Garden Conservancy symposium held March 11, 1994 at the Paine Webber Building in New York, New York /edited by Robin Karson.

49 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Karson, Robin S. Garden Conservancy. Garden Conservancy Symposium (4th : 1994 : New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 251695

Call Number: Stacks SB450.93.M37 1994

Rug hooking in Maine, 1838-1940 /Mildred Cole Pâeladeau.

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

Date: c2008.

Creators: Pâeladeau, Mildred Cole.

GUSN: 251696

Call Number: Coll. NK2812.P45 2008

Lives shaped by the Revolution :portraits of a Boston family : Speakman, Rowe, Inman, Linzee, Coffin & Amory / Jeannine Falino

84 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2005.

Creators: Falino, Jeannine J.

GUSN: 251697

Call Number: Stacks ND1311.1.F35 2005 (and 1 more)

Life everlasting :the history, art and people of Woodlawn Cemetery, 1850-2000, Everett, Massachusetts /Elizabeth Durfee Hengen ; principal photography, Richard Cheek.

119 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, ports. ; 28 cm., Woodlawn Cemetery, founded in 1850, was the third major rural cemetery established in the Boston area. It was a classic Victorian cemetery with scenic vistas, shady groves, rustic arbors, ponds, winding paths, lush landscaping and a conservatory tha...

Date: c2001.

Creators: Hengen, Elizabeth Durfee. Cheek, Richard.

GUSN: 251698

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.E962 H46 2001

Marcel Breuer, architect :the career and the buildings /Isabelle Hyman.

395 p. : ill. ; 27 cm., During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to London, Harvard University, and then New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential, and remarkably varied body of work. Among his hundreds of buildings are such ...

Date: c2001.

Creators: Hyman, Isabelle. Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981.

GUSN: 251699

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.B68 H97 2001

James Russell Lowell; portrait of a many-sided man[by] Edward Wagenknecht.

ix, 276 p. port. 21 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-2004.

GUSN: 251700

Call Number: Stacks PS2331.W3 1971

Searsport sea captains;a collection of photographs with brief biographical sketches, including the ships they commanded.

226 p. ports. 27 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Black, Frederick Frasier, 1876-1953, comp.

GUSN: 251701

Call Number: Stacks F29.S37 B5 1960

John Pierpont :a biographical sketch /by Abbie A. Ford.

25 p., [4] leaves of plates : ports. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1909

Creators: Ford, Abbie A.

GUSN: 251702

Call Number: Stacks BX9869.P6 F6 1909

Insulating the old house :a handbook for the owner /a publication of Greater Portland Landmarks, inc.; jointly sponsored by Citizens for Historic Preservation, Maine Historic Preservation Commission; compiled and edited by Sally E. Nielsen.

47 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Nielsen, Sally E. Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc. Maine Historic Preservation Commission.

GUSN: 251703

Call Number: Stacks TH1715.I5891 1977

Fire & roses :the burning of the Charlestown convent, 1834 /Nancy Lusignan Schultz.

xii, 317 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956-

GUSN: 245636

Call Number: Stacks F74.C4 S35 2000

Findings :the material culture of needlework and sewing /Mary C. Beaudry.

xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., "Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry's geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in...

Date: c2006.

Creators: Beaudry, Mary Carolyn, 1950-

GUSN: 245637

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2280.B43 2006

Founding mothers & fathers :gendered power and the forming of American society /Mary Beth Norton.

x, 496 p. ; 25 cm., Focusing on the first half-century of English settlement - approximately 1620 to 1670 - Mary Beth Norton looks not only at what colonists actually did but also at the philosophical basis for what they thought they were doing. She weaves theory and reality into a tapestry that rev...

Date: 1996.

Creators: Norton, Mary Beth.

GUSN: 245638

Call Number: Stacks HQ1075.5.U6 N67 1996

Arlington /Richard A. Duffy.

95 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Duffy, Richard A.

GUSN: 245639

Call Number: Stacks F74.A7 D84 2006 (and 1 more)

Force through delicacy :the life and art of Charles H. Woodbury, N.A. (1864-1940) /George M. Young ; with an introduction by Ruth R. Woodbury.

ix, 102 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm., Renowned marine artist Charles Woodbury (1864-1940) began his now famous Ogunquit, Maine, art school in 1898, the anniversary of which this book celebrates. Woodbury's Ogunquit shore scenes earned him a reputation as the "heir" of Winslow Hom...

Date: 1998.

Creators: Young, George M. Woodbury, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), 1864-1940.

GUSN: 245640

Call Number: Stacks ND237.W8 Y68 1998

Graveyards of North Kingstown, Rhode Island /by Althea H. McAleer, Beatrix Hoffius, Deby Jecoy Nunes ; photographs, Wendy Laferrier.

59, ca. 200 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: McAleer, Althea H. Hoffius, Beatrix. Nunes, Deby Jecoy.

GUSN: 245641

Call Number: Stacks F89.N8 M38 1992

Republic of shade :New England and the American elm /Thomas J. Campanella.

xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Campanella, Thomas J.

GUSN: 245642

Call Number: Stacks SB413.A54 C36 2003

American culture, American tastes :social change and the 20th century /Michael Kammen.

xxvii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., "Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past c...

Date: 1999

Creators: Kammen, Michael G.

GUSN: 245643

Call Number: Stacks E169.Z82 K35 1999

American masterworks :the twentieth century house /edited by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin ; text by Kenneth Frampton.

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

Date: 1995.

Creators: Frampton, Kenneth. Larkin, David, 1936-

GUSN: 245644

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7208.F68 1995

James Jeffrey Grant (1883-1960) and his North Shore contemporaries :Cape Ann painters during the 1930s and 1940s.

48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: c2005.

Creators: Grant, J. Jeffrey (James Jeffrey), 1883-1960. Jarzombek, Nancy. Vose Galleries of Boston.

GUSN: 245645

Call Number: Stacks ND237.G6147 A4 2005

Amherst Historical Moments :Amherst New Hampshire /Articles by Robert H. Rowe ; Illustrations edited by William P. Veillette.

ix, 148 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 2004.

Creators: Rowe, Robert H. Veilette, William P.

GUSN: 245646

Call Number: Stacks F44.A5 R69 2004

Historical perspectives :the frame, 1450-1950.

30 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Julius Lowy Frame & Restoring Company.

GUSN: 245647

Call Number: Coll. N8550.H67 1990

Masters of color and light :Homer, Sargent, and the American watercolor movement /Linda S. Ferber and Barbara Dayer Gallati.

xiii, 223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., In the 1870s and 1880s, artists' societies promoted watercolors as attractive, decorative, inexpensive alternatives to oils, successfully elevating them to the mainstream of American art. Based in New York City, this American watercolor movement paved the wa...

Date: c1998.

Creators: Ferber, Linda S. Gallati, Barbara Dayer. Brooklyn Museum of Art.

GUSN: 245648

Call Number: Stacks ND1807.F47 1998

Art & reform :Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery /Nonie Gadsden.

103 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Gadsden, Nonie. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 245649

Call Number: 85M Stacks NK4025.M4 G34 2006

Acquired tastes :200 years of collecting for the Boston Athenaeum /[curated by] Stanley Ellis Cushing, David B. Dearinger.

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

Date: c2006.

Creators: Cushing, Stanley Ellis. Dearinger, David B. (David Bernard), 1950- Boston Athenaeum.

GUSN: 245650

Call Number: Stacks N521.A8 A55 2006 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Travel and exploration :a catalogue of the Providence Athenaeum collection /compiled by Carol S. Cook.

xiv, 227 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Cook, Carol S. Providence Athenaeum.

GUSN: 245651

Call Number: Stacks Z881.P8 P8 1988

The grand resort hotels and tourism in the White Mountains :proceedings of the Third Mount Washington Observatory Symposium, June 24-24, 1994, Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

142 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: [1995]

Creators: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939- New Hampshire Historical Society. Mount Washington Observatory Symposium (3rd : 1994 : Bretton Woods, N.H.)

GUSN: 245652

Call Number: Stacks GT3810.N4 M68 1994

Building alliances :proceedings of the second annual Community Forum on Historic Records.

46 p. : ill. 28 cm.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board. Community Forum on Historic Records (2nd : 1999 : Worcester, Massachusetts)

GUSN: 245653

Call Number: Stacks CD3294.C65 1999

Walter Gropius :rebuilding our communities.

61 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1945.

Creators: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Moholy-Nagy, Lâaszlâo, 1895-1946. Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Chicago Plan Commission.

GUSN: 245654

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1088.G76 G7 1945

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