Historic New England

African American Connecticut explored /edited by Elizabeth J. Normen ; with Katherine J. Harris, Stacey K. Close, and Wm. Frank Mitchell.

422 pages : llustrations ; 27 cm.

Creators: Normen, Elizabeth J.

GUSN: 303587

Call Number: 85M Stacks E185.93.C7 A47 2013

Tobacco sheds :vanishing treasures in the Connecticut River Valley /Dale and Darcy Cahill.

112 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Creators: Cahill, Dale F., author. Cahill, Darcy, author.

GUSN: 303588

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.C15 2013

For kith and kin :the folk art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago /Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski.

120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. The detailed entries in this text serve as an introduction to an array of masterworks, from New England portraits to New Mexican ceramics and Oh...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Barter, Judith A., 1951- Obniski, Monica. Art Institute of Chicago.

GUSN: 303589

Call Number: Coll. NK805.A78 2012

The Boston Floating Hospital :how a Boston harbor barge changed the course of pediatric medicine : the first one hundred years /Lucie Prinz ; with Jacoba Van Schaik.

177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Prinz, Lucie, 1931- Van Schaik, Jacoba, author.

GUSN: 303590

Call Number: Stacks RJ28.B7 P75 2014

The Sol e Mar tragedy off Martha's Vineyard /Captain W. Russell Webster (U.S. Coast Guard, Ret.) & Elizabeth B. Webster ; foreword by Rear Admiral George Naccara, USCG (Ret.).

127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the Sol e Mar. When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cr...

Creators: Webster, W. Russell. Webster, Elizabeth B.

GUSN: 303591

Call Number: Stacks G530.S725 W43 2014

1775 :a good year for revolution /Kevin Phillips.

xxvi, 628 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, What if the year that has long been commemorated as America's defining moment was in fact, misleading? In this book the author, a historian punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. 1775 was th...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Phillips, Kevin, 1940-

GUSN: 303592

Call Number: Stacks E231.P55 2012

The mortal sea :fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail /W. Jeffrey Bolster.

xi, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In this account of this interdependency, the author, a historian and professi...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Bolster, W. Jeffrey.

GUSN: 303593

Call Number: 85M Stacks SH213.5.B65 2012

When America first met China :an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money in the Age of Sail /Eric Jay Dolin.

xviii, 394 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm, Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century se...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay.

GUSN: 303594

Call Number: Stacks HF3128.D65 2012

American sewn rugs :their history with exceptional examples /Jan Whitlock ; with Tracy Jamar.

113 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Whitlock, Jan. Jamar, Tracy.

GUSN: 303595

Call Number: Coll. NK2812.W45 2012

Poetry to the earth :the arts & crafts movement in Deerfield /Suzanne L. Flynt ; foreword by Wendy Kaplan.

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Creators: Flynt, Suzanne L., author. Kaplan, Wendy, writer of supplementary textual content.

GUSN: 303596

Call Number: Coll. NK1411.D44 F59 2012 c.1 (and 1 more)

Early American silver in the Metropolitan Museum of Art /Beth Carver Wees, with Medill Higgins Harvey.

xi, 328 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c2013.

Creators: Wees, Beth Carver. Harvey, Medill Higgins. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 303597

Call Number: Coll. NK7112.M48 2013

Barns of Connecticut /Markham Starr.

156 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm., "The book discusses the importance of barns, past and present, to agriculture across our state and offers a lovely introduction to the architectural and functional roles these structures played in early Connecticut. (...) From the earliest colonial structur...

Creators: Starr, Markham.

GUSN: 303598

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.S73 2013

Architecture & academe :college buildings in New England before 1860 /Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

xxi, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

GUSN: 303599

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA6603.T65 2011

A picture history of New Bedford /edited by Joseph D. Thomas, Alfred H. Saulniers, Natalie A. White, Marsha L. McCabe, Jay Avila.

volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Thomas, Joseph D., editor.

GUSN: 303600

Call Number: Stacks F74.N5 P53 2013 v.1

Capricious fancy :draping and curtaining the historic interior, 1800-1930 /Gail Caskey Winkler ; foreword by Roger W. Moss.

xliii, 292 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Winkler, Gail Caskey.

GUSN: 303601

Call Number: Coll. NK3212.W56 2013

Art of Katahdin :the mountain, the range, the region /David Little ; edited by Carl Little.

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 x 30 cm

Creators: Little, David, 1951- Little, Carl.

GUSN: 303602

Call Number: Stacks N8214.5.U6 L58 2013 (and 1 more)

Mount Auburn Cemetery :beauty on the edge of eternity /photographs by Richard Cheek ; foreword by David P. Barnett, introduction by William C. Clendaniel, text by Janet Heywood.

161 p. : chiefly col ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Cheek, Richard. Heywood, Janet Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery

GUSN: 303603

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.61.M8 F74 2012

THREE CENTURIES IN A CAPE COD VILLAGE :the Story of Chatham /Chatham Historical Society, Chatham, Massachusetts ; Dana Eldridge, Mary Ann Gray, Lynn C. Van Dine, Spencer Grey, Debra Lawless, Tim Weller, Eric Hartell.

184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Creators: Eldridge, Dana. Chatham Historical Society (Chatham, Mass.)

GUSN: 303604

Call Number: Stacks F74.C43 T48 2012

At Home in New England :Royal Barry Wills Architects 1925 to Present /Richard Wills with Keith Orlesky.

191 pages : colored illustrations

Creators: Wills, Richard, 1926-

GUSN: 303721

Call Number: Rare NA737.R69 A4 2014 (and 1 more)

Our own snug fireside :images of the New England home, 1760-1860 /Jane C. Nylander. [paperback]

xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938-

GUSN: 304346

Call Number: Stacks F8.N95 1994

The logbooks :Connecticut's slave ships and human memory /Anne Farrow.

xiv, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Creators: Farrow, Anne, author.

GUSN: 304347

Call Number: Stacks E445.C7 F37 2014 C. 1 (and 1 more)

A crisis of community :the trials and transformation of a New England town, 1815-1848 /Mary Babson Fuhrer.

xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary, and woven into its quotidian details of small-town farm life is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and creed...

Creators: Fuhrer, Mary Babson.

GUSN: 304348

Call Number: Stacks F74.B56 F85 2014 (and 1 more)

Attack on Orleans :the World War I submarine raid on Cape Cod /Jake Klim.

126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Klim, Jake.

GUSN: 304349

Call Number: Stacks D570.85.M41 O745 2014

Second nature :an environmental history of New England /Richard W. Judd.

xi, 327 pages ; 23 cm.

Creators: Judd, Richard William.

GUSN: 304350

Call Number: Stacks GF504.N45 J84 2014 c.1 (and 1 more)

Drawing toward home :designs for domestic architecture from historic New England /James F. O'Gorman, editor ; with Lorna Condon ... [et al.].

240 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: O'Gorman, James F. Condon, Lorna.

GUSN: 304514

Call Number: Ref. NA2706.U6 D69 2010 (and 1 more)

Instantaneous marine studies /taken by David Mason Little.

[20] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Date: 1883.

Creators: Little, David Mason.

GUSN: 305661

Call Number: Rare VM307.L7 1883

The Colonial Theatre :a Pittsfield resurrection /photographs by Nicholas Whitman ; with contributing essays by David Fleming [et al.].

137 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), port. ; 24 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Whitman, Nicholas, 1954- Fleming, David W., 1950-

GUSN: 305662

Call Number: Stacks NA6835.P58 C65 2008

Textiles :fiber to fabric /[by M. D. Potter and B. P. Corbman].

508 p. ; 8 vo.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Potter, M. David. Corbman, Bernard P.

GUSN: 305663

Call Number: Stacks TS1446.P6 1967

Around Swanzey :Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwilliam, and Hinsdale /Pamela Apkarian-Russell.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Nestled against the Massachusetts and Vermont borders are six New Hampshire communities largely unconnected with the rest of their home state. The picturesque bedroom and summer vacation communities of Swanzey, Ashuelot, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwil...

Date: 1996.

Creators: Apkarian-Russell, Pamela.

GUSN: 305664

Call Number: Stacks F44.S97 A65 1996

The history of the Boston medical library, by John W. Farlow.

240 pages frontispiece, illustrations (plans) plates, portraits, facsimiles, diagram 25 cm

Date: 1918.

Creators: Farlow, John Woodford, 1853-1937.

GUSN: 305665

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B746

The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library, 1875-1975 /Joseph E. Garland.

xiv, 223 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1975.

Creators: Garland, Joseph E. Boston Medical Library.

GUSN: 305666

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B746 G37

Quabbin :the lost valley /compiled by Donald W. Howe ; edited by Roger Nye Lincoln ; sketches by Elizabeth Howe Lincoln.

xviii, 631 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: 1951.

Creators: Howe, Donald W. (Donald William), 1892-1977.

GUSN: 305668

Call Number: Stacks F72.S94 F51

Literary trails of Eastern North Carolina :a guidebook /Georgann Eubanks ; photographs by Donna Campbell.

x, 367 p. : col. illustrations. col. maps ; 25 cm.

Date: [2013]

Creators: Eubanks, Georgann. Campbell, Donna, 1951-

GUSN: 306316

Call Number: Stacks PS144.N63 E9 2013

Palliser's American architecture.

No description

Date: 1896.

Creators: Tomlan, Michael A. Palliser, Palliser & co., firm, architects, New York.

GUSN: 307954

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7207.P35 1896

The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book :containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs. Together with much valuable instruction for all mechanics and amateurs, useful rules, tables, etc. ... /by H.W. Holly ... Illustrated by forty-three engravings.

57 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Date: 1888, Ã1863.

Creators: Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells)

GUSN: 307955

Call Number: Rare TH5608.H74 1888

The cabinetmaker & the carver :Boston furniture from private collections /Gerald W.R. Ward.

59 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Ward, Gerald W. R. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 307956

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.B6 W37 2013

The backstory of wallpaper :paper-hangings, 1650-1750 /Robert M. Kelly.

183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Creators: Kelly, Robert M., 1949-

GUSN: 307957

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.K45 2013 (and 1 more)

A history of Howard Johnson's :how a Massachusetts soda fountain became an American icon /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

pages cm, "The story of the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain"-- Provided by publisher., "Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to the West Coast. Popularly known as the "Father of the Franchise Industr...

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 307958

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX945.5.H595 S25 2013

The New England story, a novel.

346 pages 21 cm

Date: [1958]

Creators: Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-

GUSN: 307959

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O75933

In Berkshire fields, by Walter Prichard Eaton; illustrated by Walter King Stone.

xii 312 pages illustrations, plates (some color) 23 cm

Date: [1920]

Creators: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957.

GUSN: 307960

Call Number: Stacks QH81 E3

A leadership for peace :how Edwin Ginn tried to change the world /Robert I. Rotberg.

xiii, 247 pages : portraits ; 24 cm, "For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here Robert Rotberg details the flowering of the great American peace movement in the late nineteenth century and the remarkable life of its foremost proponent, Edwin Ginn....

Date: 2007.

Creators: Rotberg, Robert I.

GUSN: 307961

Call Number: Stacks JZ5540.2 .G56 R68 2007

Irving J. Gill, architect /Bruce Kamerling

140 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Creators: Kamerling, Bruce A., author. Gill, Irving, 1870-1936, architect.

GUSN: 307962

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.G53 K36 1993

Grandeur preserved :the house museums of Historic Charleston Foundation /Historic Charleston Foundation ; introduction by Katharine S. Robinson.

96 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Historic Charleston Foundation (Charleston, S.C.)

GUSN: 307963

Call Number: Coll. F279.C48 A2 2008

Politics, war, and personality :fifty iconic World War II documents that changed the world /Kenneth W. Rendell ; foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower.

viii, 120 pages : color illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Creators: Rendell, Kenneth W., author. Eisenhower, John S. D., 1922-2013. Szmuk-Tanenbaum, Szilvia E., donor.

GUSN: 307964

Call Number: Stacks D743.2.R397 2013

The great American West :pursuing the American dream /Kenneth W. Rendell ; [foreword by Senator Alan Simpson].

218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.

Creators: Rendell, Kenneth W.

GUSN: 307965

Call Number: Stacks F591.R44 2013

The quest for paradise :a history of the world's gardens /Ronald Kind ; with an introd. by Anthony Huxley.

288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Date: Ã1979.

Creators: King, Ronald, 1914-

GUSN: 307966

Call Number: Stacks SB465.K56 1979

The world heritage of gardens /Duæsan Ogrin.

400 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm, "The study of gardens and their history has made such enormous strides in recent years that there is now urgent need for a book summarizing our present knowledge in a reliable and attractive form. Dusan Ogrin, a renowned authority on the subject...

Date: 1993.

Creators: Ogrin, Duésan.

GUSN: 307967

Call Number: Stacks SB465.O4713 1993

The Aloha Boathouse and the Iris Bathroom :two installations by the Grueby Faience and Tile Company from the Two Red Roses Foundation /Susan J. Montgomery.

80 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Montgomery, Susan J., 1947- Two Red Roses Foundation.

GUSN: 307968

Call Number: Coll. NK2115.5.T54 T89 2013

Community by design :the Olmsted firm and the development of Brookline, Massachusetts /Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, Roger G. Reed.

xvi, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm, In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. moved from New York City to Brookline, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb that annointed itself the richest town in the world. For the next half century, until his son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. relocated to California in 19...

Creators: Morgan, Keith N. Cushing, Elizabeth Hope, 1945- Reed, Roger G., 1950-

GUSN: 307969

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA9127.B68 M67 2013

State register of historic places /Massachusetts Historical Commission.

v. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Creators: Massachusetts Historical Commission.

GUSN: 307970

Call Number: Stacks F65.S73 2014

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