Historic New England

Restaurant republic :the rise of public dining in Boston /Kelly Erby.

xxiii, 151 pages ; 22 cm, "Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such...

Creators: Erby, Kelly, author.

GUSN: 361321

Call Number: Stacks TX909.2.M32 B674 2016

Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Cann, Donald. Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 361322

Call Number: Stacks F74.R67 C36 2003

The new traditional garden :a practical guide to creating and restoring authentic American gardens for homes of all ages /Michael Weishan.

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Provides a compendium of antique plants, plans for antique gardens representing a range of styles and periods, a list of suppliers, and a directory of great historic gardens.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Weishan, Michael.

GUSN: 361323

Call Number: Stacks SB457.53 .W45 1999

Amherst College :the campus guide /an architectural tour by Blair Kamin ; photography by Ralph Lieberman ; foreword by Biddy Martin.

255 pages ; 26 cm + 1 campus guide map., "The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Kamin, Blair, author.

GUSN: 361324

Call Number: Stacks LD153.K36 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

Storied strings :the guitar in American art /Leo G. Mazow ; with additional essays by Philip J. Deloria and Jayson Kerr Dobney.

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Mazow, Leo G., author. Dobney, Jayson Kerr, contributor. Deloria, Philip Joseph, contributor. Nyerges, Alexander Lee, contributor. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361358

Call Number: Coll ML1015.G9 M39 2022

Late of the guards :tattoo designs by Ben Corday /Rich Hardy.

A century-old sketchbook of tattoo designs painted by legendary Los Angeles tattoo artist Ben Corday, presented in lush facsimile. Includes a richly illustrated essay chronicling Corday's life and career.

Date: c2023.

Creators: Hardy, Rich, 1984- author.

GUSN: 361359

Call Number: Stacks GT2345.H37 2023

Architecture constructed :notes on a discipline /Mark Jarzombek.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm, "Archi-Tect explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persist...

Creators: Jarzombek, Mark, author.

GUSN: 361360

Call Number: Stacks NA2500.J37 2023

The letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924, with correspondence by Mary Berenson /edited and annotated by Rollin van N. Hadley.

xxxviii, 718 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Creators: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924. Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945. Hadley, Rollin van N. Israëls, Machtelt. Strehlke, Carl Brandon.

GUSN: 361428

Call Number: Stacks N7483.B47 A3 2016

E.A. Bartlett's Nantasket Beach :a pictorial introduction to Hull, Massachusetts during the 1890s /photographs by Edrick A. Bartlett ; text by Dennis R. Means.

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Date: Ã1995.

Creators: Bartlett, Edrick A. Means, Dennis R., 1950- Means Library.

GUSN: 327320

Call Number: Stacks F74.N15 B37 1995

The elegant homes of America 100 years ago /compiled by Skip Whitson.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Whitson, Skip.

GUSN: 327330

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.E55x

Songs of the old town,by Walter J. Phelan ...

41 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portrait) 22 cm

Date: 1930.

Creators: Phelan, Walter Jordan.

GUSN: 327331

Call Number: Stacks PS3531.H25S66

The Paul Revere album,by Howard W. Spurr; containing a complete description of Goss' "Life of Col. Paul Revere," and more than twenty engravings with descriptions of incidents in the life of the hero of the "Midnight ride," April 18, 1775.

43, [1] pages illustrations (including portraits) 22 cm

Date: 1897.

Creators: Spurr, Howard W.

GUSN: 327332

Call Number: Stacks F69.R44

Country by-ways /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

viii, 127 pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Date: 1981.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

GUSN: 327365

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.C6 1981

The day it rained fish :& other encounters of a landscape architect /Sidney Nichols Shurcliff ; [editor, Alice W. Shurcliff].

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1991.

Creators: Shurcliff, Sidney Nichols, 1906- Shurcliff, Alice W.

GUSN: 327366

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.S58 S48x 1991

Rites of way :the politics of transportation in Boston and the U.S. city /Alan Lupo, Frank Colcord, Edmund P. Fowler.

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1971.

Creators: Lupo, Alan, author. Colcord, Frank C. (Frank Carlton), 1925- author. Fowler, Edmund P., 1942- author.

GUSN: 327367

Call Number: Stacks HE355.L84 1971

Mary Pratt Sears, 1864-1928;letters to her friends.Edited by Annie Lyman Sears. With an introduction by Ella Lyman Cabot.

xii, 429 pages frontispiece 24 cm

Date: 1932.

Creators: Sears, Mary Pratt, 1864-1928. Sears, Annie Lyman, editor.

GUSN: 327368

Call Number: Stacks PS2797.S56 Z74 1932

Gropius baut privat :seine Wohnhäuser in Dessau (1925/26) und Lincoln, Mass (1938).

119 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Kraft, Sabine.

GUSN: 327373

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1088.G85 K73 1997

A white heron ;and, the Hiltons' holiday /by Sarah Orne Jewett ; illustrations by Charles and Marcia Oakes Woodbury from Deephaven, 1893.

59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Donahue, Marie.

GUSN: 327374

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.W472 1979

Descendants of John Cogswell :the Cogswell family, 1635-1996 /by Donald James Cogswell.

xxxv, 1044 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm, John Cogswell was born in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England in 1592 and died in Ipswich, Mass. in 1669. Ca. 1615, he married the Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Thompson-vicar of Westbury from 1603-1623. The...

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Cogswell, Donald James.

GUSN: 327375

Call Number: Stacks CS71.C64 1998

The bicentennial of the pipe organ in Vermont, 1814-2014 :the 2013 atlas of the Organ Historical Society /Stephen L. Pinel ; with the assistance of Edgar A. Boadway and Len Levasseur.

xxix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Pinel, Stephen L. Boadway, E. A. (Edgar Atkinson), 1936- Levasseur, Len. Organ Historical Society.

GUSN: 327379

Call Number: Stacks ML561.7.V5 P56 2013

Cephas Thompson's Bristol, Rhode Island :patronage and subjects, 1805-1821 /Keith Arbour.

176 pages ; 23 cm

Creators: Arbour, Keith, author.

GUSN: 327380

Call Number: Stacks ND237.T552 A73 2017

Ultimate visual dictionary.

640 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, Color photographs and detailed text describe more than 50,000 terms and 270 major entries on everything from the prehistoric earth and the sciences to sports, art, and music.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

GUSN: 327476

Call Number: Coll PE1629.D67 1994

Croquêt :the laws and regulations of the game, thoroughly revised, with a description of the implements, etc., etc. ; illustrated with diagrams and engravings /by John Jacques.

30, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1865.

Creators: Jacques, John.

GUSN: 327559

Call Number: Stacks GV931.J36 1865

Remembering the Revolution :memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War /edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., In today s United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted,...

Creators: McDonnell, Michael A.

GUSN: 328099

Call Number: Stacks E209.R39 2013

Opening the Museum :history and strategies toward a more inclusive institution /Patricia A. Steuert, with Aylette Jenness and Joanne Jones-Rizzi.

76 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã1993.

Creators: Steuert, Patricia A. Jenness, Aylette. Jones-Rizzi, Joanne. Children's Museum of Boston. Rockefeller Foundation.

GUSN: 328100

Call Number: Stacks AM101.B7256 S74 1993

A tourist's New England :travel fiction, 1820-1920 /Dona Brown, editor.

viii, 217 pages ; 22 cm., Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: Brown, Dona.

GUSN: 328101

Call Number: Stacks PS648.N38 T68 1999

The way we worked /by Bruce I. Bustard ; foreword by Allen Weinstein.

92 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Bustard, Bruce I., 1954-

GUSN: 328102

Call Number: Stacks HD8066.B87 2005

Henry Ward Beecher:an American portrait,with a foreword by Sinclair Lewis.

2 preliminary leaves, vii-xiv pages, 2 leaves, 3-361 pages 22 cm

Date: [1942]

Creators: Hibben, Paxton, 1880-1928. Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Readers Club (New York, N. Y.)

GUSN: 328114

Call Number: Stacks BX7260.B3 H5 1942

Transcribing and editing oral history /by Willa K. Baum.

127 pages ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1977.

Creators: Baum, Willa K.

GUSN: 328115

Call Number: Stacks D16 .14.B 38

Curating oral histories :from interview to archive /Nancy MacKay.

225 pages ; 24 cm., "For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay's Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research document, available for use in a ...

Creators: MacKay, Nancy, 1945- author.

GUSN: 328116

Call Number: Stacks Z688.O52 M33 2016

National geographic guide to America's historic places /prepared by the Book Division, National Geographic Society.

384 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm, Includes 40 maps, for both driving and walking tours, to historical sites in all 50 states. "Features more than 2,500 U.S. historical sites, including: battlefields, wild west towns, colonial villages, historic districts, Indian dwellings, pioneer...

Date: Ã1996.

Creators: National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division.

GUSN: 328117

Call Number: Stacks E159.N29 1996

Black Bostonians :family life and community struggle in the Antebellum North /James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton.

xxv, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Date: 1999.

Creators: Horton, James Oliver. Horton, Lois E.

GUSN: 328132

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.9.N4 H67 1999

Oral history for the local historical society /by Willa K. Baum.

xii, 68 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1987.

Creators: Baum, Willa K.

GUSN: 328133

Call Number: Stacks D16.14.B37 1987 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Walk of Fame :a Rollins legacy /compiled by Wenxian Zhang with David Smith and Patricia Strout.

132 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: [2003]

Creators: Zhang, Wenxian. Smith, David. Strout, Particia. Bornstein, Rita. Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951.

GUSN: 328134

Call Number: Stacks LD4721.R73 W34 2003

Folklore :a study and research guide /Jan Harold Brunvand ; M. Thomas Inge, general editor.

vi, 144 pages ; 22 cm

Creators: Brunvand, Jan Harold, author.

GUSN: 328906

Call Number: 85M Stacks Z5981.B78 GR66

Professional standards for museum accreditation :the handbook of the accreditation program of the American Association of Museums /edited by H.J. Swinney.

77 pages ; 26 cm

Date: Ã1978

Creators: Swinney, H. J. (Holman J.), 1919- American Association of Museums.

GUSN: 328907

Call Number: Stacks AM7

Introduction to early American masonry :stone, brick, mortar, and plaster /Harley J. McKee.

92 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: repr. 1978, Ã1973.

Creators: McKee, Harley J. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. Columbia University.

GUSN: 328908

Call Number: Stacks TH1199.M222 1973E

Culture is our common wealth :an action agenda to enhance revenues and resources for Massachusetts cultural organizations /the Boston Foundation ; [principal authors, Jon Abbott ... et al. ; research, Amy Appleyard and others] ; design, Kate Canfield.

74, xlviii pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Abbott, Jon. Boston Foundation.

GUSN: 328909

Call Number: Stacks NX705.U62 B73 2004x

Becoming Americans :our struggle to be both free and equal : a plan of thematic interpretation /Cary Carson, editor.

ix, 206 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Carson, Cary.

GUSN: 328914

Call Number: Stacks F234.W7 B43 1998

Time machines :the world of living history /Jay Anderson.

217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1984.

Creators: Anderson, Jay (Jay Allan) American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 328915

Call Number: Stacks D16.A556 1984

Domesticating history :the political origins of America's house museums /Patricia West.

xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "Focusing on George Washington's Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitan...

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: West, Patricia, 1958-

GUSN: 328916

Call Number: Stacks E159.W445 1999

Museums, ethics and cultural heritage /edited by Bernice L. Murphy.

xxi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, This volume provides an unparalleled exploration of ethics and museum practice, considering the controversies and debates which surround key issues such as provenance, ownership, cultural identity, environmental sustainability and social engagement. Using a va...

Creators: Murphy, Bernice L., editor.

GUSN: 328917

Call Number: Stacks AM7.M8837 2016

A house unlocked /Penelope Lively.

x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Date: 2002.

Creators: Lively, Penelope, 1933-

GUSN: 328922

Call Number: Stacks PR6062.I89 Z466 2002

Cultural literacy :what every American needs to know /E.D. Hirsch, Jr. ; with an updated appendix, What literate Americans know [by] E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph Kett, James Trefil.

xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm, Argues that American children are deprived of cultural literacy.

Date: 1988, Ã1987.

Creators: Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928- Kett, Joseph F. Trefil, James, 1938-

GUSN: 328923

Call Number: Stacks LB45.H57 1988

Changing places :rebuilding community in the age of sprawl /Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie.

xiii, 288 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm, In Changing Places, Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie explore how America's historic communities are confronting sprawl: fragile towns throughout New England and the Midwest are defending themselves from corporate giants like Wal-Mart stores;...

Date: 1997.

Creators: Moe, Richard. Wilkie, Carter.

GUSN: 328924

Call Number: Stacks HT175.M65 1997

The art of scandal :the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1998.

Creators: Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941-

GUSN: 328925

Call Number: Stacks N5220.G26 S48 1998

Drawn home :Fritz Vogt's rural America /W. Parker Hayes, Jr. ; with contributions by Christopher Capozzola and Douglas Kendall.

96 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 28 cm

Date: 2002.

Creators: Vogt, Fritz G., active 1850-1900. Capozzola, Christopher. Kendall, Douglas. Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)

GUSN: 328930

Call Number: Stacks NC139.V64 A4 2002

Museum masters :their museums and their influence /Edward P. Alexander.

x, 428 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Alexander, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1907-2003.

GUSN: 328931

Call Number: Stacks AM7.A5 1983

Art museums plus :cultural excursions in New England /Traute M. Marshall.

xv, 360 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm, "While most people are familiar with the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, few are aware of the scores of other wonderful museums throughout New England. From the Colby College Museum...

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Marshall, Traute M., 1942-

GUSN: 328932

Call Number: Stacks N510.5.N4 M37 2009

Interpreting our heritage /Freeman Tilden ; edited by R. Bruce Craig ; foreword by Russell E. Dickenson.

x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields. historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special ki...

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Tilden, Freeman, 1883-1980. Craig, R. Bruce.

GUSN: 328933

Call Number: Stacks SB482.A4 T53 2007

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