Historic New England

Legal problems of museum administration :ALI-ABA course of study materials /cosponsored by the Smithsonian Institution with the cooperation of the American Association of Museums.

xvii, 651 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Smithsonian Institution. American Association of Museums. American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education.

GUSN: 274018

Call Number: Coll. KF4305.Z9 L43 1986

The craftsman in a changing society :Boston goldsmiths, 1690-1730 /by Barbara McLean Ward.

xvi, 402 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1983.

Creators: Ward, Barbara McLean.

GUSN: 274019

Call Number: Coll. NK7112.W367 1982

Practical decorative upholstery;containing full instructions for cutting, making and hanging all kinds of interior upholstery decorations, illustrated with numerous working diagrams and designs ...by F.A. Moreland.

3 p. l., [3]-320 p. incl. illus., plates, diagrs. 23cm.

Date: [c1889]

Creators: Moreland, Frank A.

GUSN: 274020

Call Number: Coll. NK3195 M674 1889

Textile storage in Colonial America, 1680-1750 /by Susan Marie Kilpatrick.

viii, 114 leaves : ill.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Kilpatrick, Susan Marie.

GUSN: 274021

Call Number: Coll. TS1765.K55 1998

A treatise on haberdashery and hosiery :including the Manchester, Scotch, silk, linen, and woollen departments ... and remarks on the general retail trade ... /by E.E. Perkins.

237 p.

Date: 1836

Creators: Perkins, E. E.

GUSN: 274022

Call Number: Coll. HB151.M35 1836

Novgorod /risunki ëIìU.A. Pokhodaeva ; redaktor, E.P. Suzdaleva.

20, [1] p., [54] p. of plates : ill. (col.) ; 15 x 23 cm.

Date: 1969]

Creators: Pokhodaev, ëIìU. A. Suzdaleva, E. P.

GUSN: 274049

Call Number: Coll. DK651.N506 P56 1969

Matting techniques /Herb Carithers.

55 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Carithers, Herb.

GUSN: 274050

Call Number: Coll. N6535.C3 1977

Restoration reconsidered :historical accuracy of the kitchen at Adena, a Federal period house museum /Fred Rhodes Smith.

226 leaves : ill., plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 2004.

Creators: Smith, Fred Rhodes.

GUSN: 274055

Call Number: Coll. F499 .L69 S65 2004

What's New England about New England quilts? :proceedings of a symposium at Old Sturbridge Village, June 13, 1998 /edited by Lynne Z. Bassett.

105 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961- What's New England about New England quilts? (1998 : Old Sturbridge Village, Mass.)

GUSN: 274056

Call Number: Coll. NK9112.B39 1999

Searching for 18th-and 19th-century patents on the Patent Office web site /together with tables of issue days and patent numbers for utility, design, reissue, & additional improvement patents for the years 1790-1900,[by] Philip E. Stanley.

73 p. : appendices ; 28 cm.

Date: c2005.

Creators: Stanley, Philip E. United States. Patent Office. Washington, D. C.

GUSN: 274057

Call Number: Coll. T201.S836 2006

For work & for play :a selection of American neo-classical furniture /exhibition curated by Elizabeth Feld and Stuart P. Feld.

12 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Feld, Elizabeth. Feld, Stuart P. Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 274058

Call Number: Coll. NK2407.F67 2007

Hampshire pottery, 1871-1923 :selections from the Colony House Museum, Bouchard-Croteau collection, John C. Perry collection : an exhibition /organized by the Currier Gallery of Art.

[8] p. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Colony House Museum. Currier Gallery of Art. Phillips Exeter Academy. Library. Thorne-Sagendorph Memorial Art Gallery.

GUSN: 274059

Call Number: Coll. N3712.M2 H36 1986

When gentlemen wore hats :the days of hatting in Norwalk, Connecticut /Gloria P. Stewart and Deborah Wing Ray.

36 p. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Stewart, Gloria P. Ray, Deborah Wing. Friends of the Norwalk Museum, Inc.

GUSN: 274061

Call Number: Coll. HD8039 .H3 S749 2001

Tracing the footsteps of ritual :concealed footwear in Quincy, Massachusetts ; a thesis /by Jessica W. Geisler.

x, 147 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Geisler, Jessica W.

GUSN: 274062

Call Number: Coll. GT2130.G457 2003

The young ladies school of arts.Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers filligree ... clear starching, &c. ... By Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

[2], xx, [2],182 p. ; (12mo in 6s)

Date: 1777.

Creators: Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?

GUSN: 274063

Call Number: Coll. TX151.R7 1777

Woodworking traditions in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1635-1745 /by Susan Mackiewicz.

xix, 131 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Mackiewicz, Susan.

GUSN: 274064

Call Number: NK9999.M134 1981

Discovering Dennis :the search for Thomas Dennis among the artists of Exeter /Paul Fitzsimmons.

No description

Date: 2009.]

Creators: Fitzsimmons, Paul. Morwenna Photography. Marhamchurch Antiques.

GUSN: 283432

Call Number: Coll. NK2211.E54 F58 2009

Une Visite à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune.

114 p. : ills. ; 8 in.

Date: 1939.

GUSN: 283437

Call Number: Coll. RT31.H57 1939

Decoys of the Newburys, Plum Island and Surrounding Communities :catalog of an exhibition at the Cushing House Museum, Newburyport, Massachusetts /Jay S. Williamson.

60 p.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Williamson, Jay S. Historical Society of Old Newbury (Newburyport, Mass.)

GUSN: 283438

Call Number: Coll. NK4890.5 W55 1999

A taste of history :a sampling from Schlesinger Library's culinary collections : an exhibition in conjunction with the conference "Women, Men, and Food: Putting Gender on the Table," sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 12-13, 2007.

49 p.

Date: 2007.]

Creators: Altieri, Marylene. Earle, Susan. Hutcheon, Sarah. Morgan, Marilyn. Wheaton, Barbara K. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

GUSN: 283439

Call Number: Coll. TX645.T37 A78 2007

Portsmouth and the Piscataqua /by Peter E. Randall.

88 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Randall, Peter, 1940-

GUSN: 283749

Call Number: Stacks F44.P8 R36 1982

Towards world heritage :international origins of the preservation movement, 1870-1930 /edited by Melanie Hall.

xx, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm., "Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is however surprisingly little understanding about how it took place, and research into it is narrowly focused. For example, g...

Date: c2011.

Creators: Hall, Melanie.

GUSN: 283750

Call Number: 85M Stacks G140.5.T69 2011

Collecting history /Massachusetts Historical Society.

88 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., facsims. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2009.

Creators: McCullough, David G. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 283751

Call Number: Stacks F61.C655 2009

Sherborn, Massachusetts :images of the past.

v. : ill., map ; 24 X 26 cm.

Date: c1999-

Creators: Sherborn Historical Society. Sherborn (Mass.). 325th Anniversary Celebration Committee.

GUSN: 283752

Call Number: Stacks F74.S55 S55 1999

Elisha Jones House and Shed :historic structure report /by James J. Lee III.

xv, 207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Lee, James J., III. Historic Architecture Program (United States. National Park Service. Northeast Region)

GUSN: 283753

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 L44 2007

From Portland to Paris :Mildred Burrage's years in France /[edited by Lucie G. Teegarden].

95 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983. Teegarden, Lucie T. Portland Museum of Art.

GUSN: 283754

Call Number: Stacks N6490.B877 2012

Farms of cape cod :lavender, horses, vineyards, oysters, flowers, cranberries, and the farmers who raise them /by Stephanie Foster.

144p. 22cm.

Date: 2013

Creators: Foster, Stephanie

GUSN: 283755

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 F37 2013

The Newport naval training station :a postcard history /by Federico Santi.

79p. 22cm.

Date: 2013

Creators: Santi, Federico

GUSN: 283756

Call Number: Stacks V434.N49 S26 2013

General catalog /Wallace Nutting.

160, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1984ò

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 283895

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.N87 A4

Historical and locational aspects of the economic decline in the New England furniture industry[microform].

xvii, 466 p.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Wickman, Kenneth Paul, 1930-

GUSN: 283896

Call Number: Coll. TS805.W53 1962

Information: the hidden resource :museums and the internet : proceedings of the seventh International Conference of the MDA held in Edinburgh, Scotland 6-7 November 1995 /edited by Anne Fahy and Wendy Sudbury.

various pagings : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Fahy, Anne, 1960- Sudbury, Wendy. Museum Documentation Association. Conference (7th : 1995 : Edinburgh) Museum Documentation Association (Great Britain)

GUSN: 283897

Call Number: Coll. AM125.M87 1995 (and 1 more)

Training for collections care and maintenance :a suggested curriculum.Volume 1,Archaeology and ethnology.

103 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (U.S.) Arizona State Museum. Bay Foundation.

GUSN: 283898

Call Number: Coll. AM141.T73 1990

Care and handling manual.

43 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1985]

Creators: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Conservation Section.

GUSN: 283899

Call Number: Coll. AM141.C37 1985

An Annotated bibliography for the development and operation of historic sites /prepared by the Historic Sites Committee of the AAM.

48 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: [1982]

Creators: American Association of Museums. Historic Sites Committee.

GUSN: 283900

Call Number: Coll. Z5940.A55 1982 (and 1 more)

Preprints index :cumulative index of papers presented at the 4th through the 16th annual meetings, 1976-88 /American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

37 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Rosenberg, Sarah Z. Anderson, Marcia M., 1961- Dilworth, Robert A. Lambrou, John G. American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

GUSN: 283901

Call Number: Coll. Z6293.A512 1990

Writings on landscape, culture, and society /Frederick Law Olmsted ; Charles E. Beveridge, editor.

xx, 802 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 21 cm., A highly varied collection including letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences. Subjects include li...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor.

GUSN: 359344

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 $b A533 2015

Thirty-eight :the hurricane that transformed New England /Stephen Long.

xv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New Englands Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island a...

Creators: Long, Stephen, 1953- author.

GUSN: 359345

Call Number: Stacks QC945 $b.L66 2016

Imagining Ichabod :my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house /Paula Bennett.

252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Creators: Bennett, Paula, MEd, author. Agrafiotis, Sandy, photographer.

GUSN: 359346

Call Number: Stacks F29.S67 B46 2016 (and 1 more)

The art and science of Abbott Handerson Thayer /Kevin M. Murphy.

126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm., Though perhaps best known for his portraits, American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) also developed detailed theories of animal camouflage. With his fine-arts training and his careful observations of nature, Thayer created w...

Creators: Murphy, Kevin M. (Kevin Michael), author. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921. Paintings. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921, artist. Williams College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359347

Call Number: Coll ND237.T5 $b A4x 2016

Canoes :a natural history in North America /Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims ; foreword by John McPhee.

xxxiv, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 x 27 cm, Ancient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so ...

Creators: Neuzil, Mark, author. Sims, Norman, author. McPhee, John, 1931- author of foreword.

GUSN: 359348

Call Number: Stacks VM353.N48 2016

American impressionist :Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals /edited by Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey ; with contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Kathleen M. Burnside, John W. Coffey, Hal Weeks, and a photo essay by Alexandra de Steiguer.

124 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years...

Creators: Bailly, Austen Barron, editor. Coffey, John W. (John William), 1954- editor. North Carolina Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 359349

Call Number: Coll ND237.H345 A4 2016 (and 1 more)

Cyanotypes :photography's blue period /edited by Nancy Kathryn Burns, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs ; Kristina Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, Clark University.

95 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm

Creators: Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, curator. Wilson, Kristina, editor, curator. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359350

Call Number: Stacks TR415.C93 2016 c.1 (and 1 more)

Mount Washington :the crown of New England /P. Andrew Spahr ; with essays by Karen E. Quinn, Inez McDermott, Peter Crane.

111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm

Creators: Spahr, P. Andrew. From wilderness to icon. Quinn, Karen E. Readjusting the view. McDermott, Inez. To see wonders and beauties. Crane, Peter (Peter Joseph). Scientists and artists in the White Mountains. Currier Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359351

Call Number: Coll F41.6.W3 M95 2016

The lively place :Mount Auburn, America's first garden cemetery, and its revolutionary and literary residents /Stephen Kendrick ; illustrations by Matthew A. Longo.

254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperativ...

Creators: Kendrick, Stephen, 1954- author. Unitarian Universalist Association.

GUSN: 359352

Call Number: Stacks F73.61.M8 $b K45 2016

Shelburne Farms :house, gardens, farm, and barns /Glenn Suokko ; foreword by Alec Webb ; afterword by Megan Camp.

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, The text tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America's leading aristocrats of the day, Eliza "Lila" Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb. Built between 1886 and 1905, the houses and barns, desi...

Creators: Suokko, Glenn, author. Webb, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, 1860-1936, contributor. Webb, William Seward, contributor. Webb, Alec, writer of foreward. Camp, Megan, writer of afterword. Robertson, R. H. (Robert Henderson), 1849- designer.

GUSN: 359379

Call Number: Stacks F59.S49 S86 2017

You had a job for life :story of a company town /Jamie Sayen.

283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers at the hands of avaricious and unaccountable multinational interests. The story of America's industrial decline is all too familiar--and yet, some...

Creators: Sayen, Jamie, author.

GUSN: 359380

Call Number: Stacks HD9828.G76 S29 2018

Summer over autumn :a small book of small-town life /Howard Mansfield.

127 pages ; 19 cm, Howard Mansfield's new book, Summer Over Autumn: A Small Book of Small-Town Life is named for what Mansfield calls the moment in late summer when the season is still going strong but you get that first glimpse at autumn. "There's a moment every summer when I look up at a nearby ...

Creators: Mansfield, Howard, author.

GUSN: 359381

Call Number: Stacks F44.H4 M36 2017

Universalists and Unitarians of Maine :a Comprehensive History /by Peter Tufts Richardson.

vii, 686 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm, "Maine's oldest church is Unitarian, founded in Portland in 1674. Half of Maine's early governors were Unitarians. Maine's oldest Universalist congregation was founded in rural Norway in 1798. Inland Universalists prevailed against the...

Creators: Richardson, Peter Tufts, author.

GUSN: 359382

Call Number: Stacks BX9933.5.M2 R53 2017

Art & industry in early America :Rhode Island furniture, 1650-1830 /Patricia E. Kane ; with Dennis Carr, Nancy Goyne Evans, Jennifer N. Johnson, Gary R. Sullivan.

xiii, 494 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm, This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illust...

Creators: Kane, Patricia E., author. Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), author. Johnson, Jennifer N., author. Sullivan, Gary R., author. Evans, Nancy Goyne, author. Yale University. Art Gallery,

GUSN: 359383

Call Number: Coll NK2435.R4 A78 2016

William Merritt Chase :a modern master /Elsa Smithgall [and four others] ; with a foreword by D. Frederick Baker.

xix, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best k...

Creators: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916, artist. Smithgall, Elsa, author. Baker, D. Frederick, writer of foreword. Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916. Paintings. Phillips Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fondazione Musei civici di Venezia, Museo d'arte moderna Ca' Pesaro, Terra Foundation for American Art,

GUSN: 359384

Call Number: Coll N6537.C464 A4 2016

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