Historic New England

The HABS and the HABs nots :documenting the architecture of Newburyport in the Historic American Buildings Survey /by Reginald W. Bacon ; Newburyport Preservation Trust.

160 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm

Creators: Bacon, Reginald W. Newburyport Preservation Trust.

GUSN: 361768

Call Number: Stacks NA735.N53 B33 2017

American country furniture :projects from the Workshops of David T. Smith /by Nick Engler and Mary Jane Favorite.

ix, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, "Provides step-by-step instructions for making a wide variety of woodworking projects, including a pie safe, candle stand, lap desk, pencil-post bed, and cradle."--Abebooks.com viewed Nov. 15, 2022., Signed by the author, 1991

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Engler, Nick. Favorite, Mary Jane, 1942- Workshops of David T. Smith (Firm)

GUSN: 361769

Call Number: Coll TT194.E54 1990

Collecting antiques in America / Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee.

321 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [Ã1962]

Creators: Ormsbee, Thomas H.

GUSN: 361770

Call Number: Coll NK1125.O7 1962

The practical book of American silver /by Edward Wenham ; with line illustrations by Edgar Holloway and reproductions from photographs.

xvii, 275 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm, Different periods of American silver and its prevailing style.

Creators: Wenham, Edward, 1884-1956.

GUSN: 361771

Call Number: Coll NK7103.W46 1949

The story of American furniture,by Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee ... with thirty-one line drawings by Robert Curry and one hundred and seventeen illustrations.

xxi, 276 pages frontispiece, illustrations 24 cm

Date: 1937 [Ã1934]

Creators: Ormsbee, Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton), 1890-1969.

GUSN: 361772

Call Number: Coll NK2406.O73 1937

Antiques:a popular guide to antiques for everyone;introduction by Peter Philp.

144 pages illustrations (some color). 29 cm

Date: 1973.

GUSN: 361781

Call Number: Coll NK1125.A64 1973

Winterthur illustrated /John A.H. Sweeney ; photographs by Gilbert Ask ; introduction by Henry Francis DuPont.

179 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1963

Creators: Sweeney, John A. H. Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969. Sweeney, John A. H. Treasure house of early American rooms. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 361782

Call Number: Coll NK460.W5 S9 1963

The Country club, 1882-1932,by Frederic H. Curtiss and John Heard.

x, 213 pages including plans frontispiece, plates, portraits 27 cm

Date: 1932.

Creators: Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1869-1967. Heard, John, Jr., 1889-

GUSN: 361791

Call Number: Stacks GV969.B7

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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