Historic New England

The small garden in the city.

136 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1974, c1973].

Creators: Garland, Madge, 1896-1990.

GUSN: 265367

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.G29 1974

America's great private gardens.

218 p. illus. (part col.) map. 32 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Schuler, Stanley.

GUSN: 265368

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.U6 S34 1967

The House beautiful book of gardens and outdoor living,by Joseph E. Howland.

376 p. illus. (part col.) 34 cm.

Date: [1958]

Creators: Howland, Joseph E.

GUSN: 265369

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.U6 H6 1958

Versailles, palais, musée, jardins.

1 v. (unpaged) plates, ports., plans. 27 cm.

Date: [1852?]

Creators: France. Bureau des Galeries Historiques.

GUSN: 265370

Call Number: Hav. Archives DC801.V56 V46 185X

Les châteaux de l'Île de France.With a pref. by Wladimir d'Ormesson. [Planned and produced under the general direction of Pierre Levallois and Gaston d'Angelis. Edited by Claude Fregnac.

321 p. illus. (part col.), map (on lining papers) 32 cm.

Date: [c1965]

Creators: Levallois, Pierre. Angélis, Gaston d'. Fregnac, Claude, ed.

GUSN: 265371

Call Number: Hav. Archives NA7735.M39613 1965

From folly to follies :discovering the world of gardens /pictures and text by Michel Saudan and Sylvia Saudan-Skira ; introduction by François Crouzet.

ix, 237 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Saudan, Michel, 1930- Saudan-Skira, Sylvia.

GUSN: 265372

Call Number: Hav. Archives NA8460.S2813 1988

Garden ornament :five hundred years of nature, art, and artifice /George Plumptre ; with special contributions by Jamie Garnock and James Rylands ; photographs by Hugh Palmer.

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

Date: 1990, c1989.

Creators: Plumptre, George.

GUSN: 265373

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.5.P57 1990

Color for your winter yard & garden, with flowers, berries, birds, and trees /Helen Van Pelt Wilson.

xvi, 175 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, 1901-2003.

GUSN: 265374

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB439.5.W54 1978

An encyclopaedia of gardening :comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening : including all the latest improvements, a general history of gardening in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state : with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles /by J.C. Loudon ; illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston.

xl, 1278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1878.

Creators: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858.

GUSN: 265375

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB450.97.L68 1878

Garden colour:Spring, by Mrs. C.W. Earle; Summer, by E.V.B.; Autumn, by Rose Kingsley; Winter, by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs; etc., etc.Notes & water color sketches by Margaret Waterfield.

195 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Waterfield, Margaret H., ed. Earle, Maria Theresa. Boyle, Eleanor Vere Gordon, 1825-1916. Kingsley, Rose Georgina, 1845- Gibbs, Vicary, 1853-1932. Powell, W. Richmond. Crofton, Helen, Mrs. Mount, George.

GUSN: 265376

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB454.W25 1905

The English garden :a poem /William Mason.

ix, 243 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Mason, William, 1725-1797.

GUSN: 265377

Call Number: Hav. Archives PR3548.M2 A68 1982

A plan of Mr. Pope's garden /John Serle. Gardens at Richmond, Kew, and environs, ca. 1730-1760.

131 p. in various pagings, [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Serle, John.

GUSN: 265378

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.G75 L66 1982

The garden of to-day,by H. Avray Tipping.

287, [1] p. front., plates. 21 cm.

Date: 1933.

Creators: Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933.

GUSN: 265379

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB453.T55 1933

Garden design in theory and practice.

xv, 272 p. ill. (some col.) plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Agar, Madeline.

GUSN: 265380

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB454.A45 1911

Rock gardens and alpine plants :including water, bog, and moraine gardens /T.W. Sanders.

196 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [192-?]

Creators: Sanders, T. W. (Thomas William), 1855-1926.

GUSN: 265381

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB421.S26 192X

A book of English gardens,written by M.R. Gloag, illustrated by Katharine Montagu Wyatt.

3 p. l., ix-xii, 340 p. 24 col. pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

Date: [1906]

Creators: Gloag, M. R. Wyatt, Katharine Montagu, ill.

GUSN: 265382

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB466.G7 G6 1906

The theory and practice of gardening[by A.J. Dezaillier d'Argenville; translated from the French by] John James.

[16], 220 p., 32 plates (26 fold.) illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Dézallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765. James, John, d. 1746.

GUSN: 265383

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB461.D42 1712

The formal garden in England,by Reginald Blomfield ... with illustrations by F. Inigo Thomas ...

xvi, 250 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: 1901.

Creators: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942.

GUSN: 265384

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB451.B56 1901

Plants that merit attention /the Garden Club of America ; Janet Meakin Poor, editor ; Nancy P. Brewster, photographic editor.

v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., Photographs and text highlight the landscaping of trees and shrubs.

Date: c1984 (1994 printing)-<c1996>

Creators: Poor, Janet Meakin. Brewster, Nancy P. Garden Club of America.

GUSN: 265385

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB435.P6 1994 v. 2 (and 1 more)

The garden book /John Brookes ; [American editor, Marjorie J. Dietz].

287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm., In memory of Dudley L. Adair given by John and Pam Kowalski.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Brookes, John, 1933- Dietz, Marjorie J.

GUSN: 265386

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB473.B725 1984

The small garden /John Brookes.

256 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Brookes, John, 1933-

GUSN: 265387

Call Number: Hav. Archives SB453.B76 1977

Maria Longworth Storer :from music and art to popes and presidents /Constance J. Moore, Nancy M. Broermann.

xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents tells the story of one of Cincinnati's most prominent women activists and socialites, Maria Longworth Storer. A philanthropist and talented artist, known as the founder of Rookwood Pottery, Ma...

Creators: Moore, Constance J., author. Broermann, Nancy, 1950- author. University of Cincinnati. Press.

GUSN: 361429

Call Number: Stacks E748.S884 M66 2019

Lives of houses /edited by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee.

xvii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Kennedy, Kate, editor. Lee, Hermione, editor.

GUSN: 361430

Call Number: Stacks PN164.L58 2020

Twentieth-century building materials :history and conservation /edited with a new preface by Thomas C. Jester.

xv, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm, A guide to the materials used in architecture during the past century, as well as tips on building repair and restoration. With more than 200 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, it focuses on the history and conservation of mo...

Creators: Jester, Thomas C., editor. Tomlan, Michael A. Building modern America. Getty Conservation Institute,

GUSN: 361431

Call Number: Stacks TA403.6 .T87 2014

Boston's Apollo :Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent /edited by Nathaniel Silver ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother [and seven others].

256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm, "In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962), a young Black elevator attendant, at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller posed for most of the figures--both male and female--in Sargent'...

Creators: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, artist. Silver, Nathaniel E., editor, curator, contributor. Fisher, Paul, 1952- contributor. Greene, Nikki A. (Nikki Alma Rose), contributor. O'Grady, Lorraine, contributor. Hirschler, Erica E., contributor. Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor. Riley, Casey (Curator), contributor. Tóibín, Colm, 1955- contributor. Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Works. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,

GUSN: 361432

Call Number: Stacks N6537.S32 A4 2020

Larry Salk :California dreaming and the evolution of American fashion art, 1945-1965 /Frederic A. Sharf with Susan Ward.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Salk, Lawrence. Ward, Susan. Brigham and Women's Hospital. Sharf Admitting Center.

GUSN: 361433

Call Number: Coll TT509.S53 2007

Style and the city :New York city fashion art : two decades of advertising drawings : 1955-1975 /by Frederic A. Sharf with Morton Kaish and Alexandra B. Huff.

72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- Kaish, Morton, 1927- Huff, Alexandra B.

GUSN: 361434

Call Number: Coll NC998.5.N72 N489 2010

Figure, fabric, fantasy :five decades of American fashion drawing (1940s-1980s) : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Alexandra B. Huff and Frederic A. Sharf with Phil French and Morton Kaish.

102 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Creators: Huff, Alexandra B., author. Sharf, Frederic A., 1934- author. French, Phil, author. Kaish, Morton, 1927- author. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361435

Call Number: Coll TT509.H86 2012

Embroidered dreams :designs from the House of Madeleine & Madeleine : Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection /Emily Banis Stoehrer.

62 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2014.

Creators: Stoehrer, Emily Banis. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 361436

Call Number: Coll TT505.M334 S76 2014

Maine and American art :the Farnsworth Art Museum /Michael K. Komanecky, Jane Bianco, Angela Waldron.

384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 x 25 cm, Published on the occasion of Maine's bicentennial, the book considers more than 200 major artworks of American art from the Farnsworth Art Museum's impressive holdings and details how the state has figured prominently in the development of Amer...

Creators: Komanecky, Michael, author. Bianco, Jane, author. Waldron, Angela, author. Farnsworth Art Museum.

GUSN: 361437

Call Number: Coll ND230.M2 K66 2020

Plans and views of public parks /Charles E. Beveridge, editor ; Lauren Meier, associate editor ; Irene Mills, assistant editor.

xiv, 429 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 x 29 cm.

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, designer. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene. editor.

GUSN: 361448

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 F74 2015

Frederick Law Olmsted :plans and views of communities and private estates /Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, editors.

xvii, 588 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 29 cm., Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society. Lavishly illustrated with over...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor. Meier, Lauren, editor. Mills, Irene, editor.

GUSN: 361449

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 A3 2020

Asher Benjamin :American architect, author, artist /Bill Ranauro.

xvi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American architecture in the first half of the nineteenth century. Taking inspiration from the neoclassical design...

Creators: Ranauro, Bill, author.

GUSN: 361450

Call Number: Stacks NA737.B46 R36 2021

Bunny Williams on garden style /written with Nancy Drew.

287 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm, In Bunny Williams on Garden Style , Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic. For Williams, gardens offer an escape, and she imparts vital informatio...

Creators: Williams, Bunny, 1944- author. Drew, Nancy, 1948- author.

GUSN: 361451

Call Number: Stacks SB457.5 .W493 2015

Boston's oldest buildings and where to find them /Joseph M. Bagley.

222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "A guidebook for Boston's 50 oldest buildings. Written in a conversational manner that does not bog the reader down in technical jargon, but allows them to see the history of Boston through the lens of its oldest structures whi...

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 361452

Call Number: Stacks F73.37 .B325 2021

Urban archipelago :an environmental history of the Boston Harbor Islands /Pavla Simková.

xi, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston's "hidden shores." While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured parks or have the appearance of wooded hills rising gently...

Creators: éSimková, Pavla, 1986- author.

GUSN: 361453

Call Number: Stacks GF504.M4 S56 2021

Lost towns of New England /Renee Mallet.

108 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm, "New England is home to abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. From villages sunk underwater to cities undone by the rise and fall of mill life, madness or just plain bad luck, these ghost towns offer a unique look into...

Creators: Mallet, Renee, author.

GUSN: 361454

Call Number: Stacks F4.M35 2021

Colonial Weymouth :the Forgotten Second Settlement /Mark Robert Schneider ; Maps by David Finney ; Photographs by Annemarie Reardon unless otherwise noted.

iii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948- author. Finney, David, mapmaker. Reardon, Annemarie, photographer.

GUSN: 361455

Call Number: Stacks F74.W77 S36 2021

The best ever! :Parades in New England, 1788-1940 /Jane C. Nylander.

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm, "Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skel...

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938- author.

GUSN: 361456

Call Number: Stacks GT4005.N95 2021

The citizen poets of Boston :a collection of forgotten poems, 1789-1820 /Paul Lewis, editor.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Lewis, Paul, 1949- editor.

GUSN: 361457

Call Number: Stacks PS549.B6 C58 2016

Arts and crafts jewelry in Boston :Frank Gardner Hale and his circle /Nonie Gadsen, Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer.

190 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm, "A vibrant and active community of jewelry makers at the turn of the century in Boston, united by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, created works of wearable art that came to define the 'Boston look' -- characterized by color...

Creators: Gadsden, Nonie, author. Melvin, Meghan, author. Stoehrer, Emily Banis, author. Snodgrass, Jennifer (Editor), editor. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361458

Call Number: Coll NK7301.B67 M53 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

American history, art, and culture :writings in honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks /Pat Warner and Gerald W.R. Ward, editors.

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Creators: Warner, Pat. Ward, Gerald W. R. Fuller Craft Museum.

GUSN: 361459

Call Number: Coll NK805.A43 2018

American glass :the collections at Yale /John Stuart Gordon.

xi, 312 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital a...

Creators: Gordon, John Stuart, 1977- author. Yale University. Art Gallery,

GUSN: 361460

Call Number: Coll NK5102.Y35 G67 2018

Hands employed aright :the furniture making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) /Joshua A. Klein.

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Creators: Klein, Joshua A., author.

GUSN: 361461

Call Number: Coll NK2439.F57 K53 2018

Claggett :Newport's illustrious clockmakers /Donald L. Fennimore, Frank L. Hohmann III ; with an introduction by Dennis Carr.

268 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm, In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers William Claggett (1694-1748), James Wady (d. 1759), and Thomas Claggett (1730-1797)--individuals...

Creators: Fennimore, Donald L., author. Hohmann, Frank L., author. Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), writer of introduction.

GUSN: 361462

Call Number: Coll NK7497.C59 F46 2018

Collecting Nantucket :artifacts from an island community /Michael R. Harrison.

x, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community highlights historic artifacts, documents, and works of art from the permanent collection of the Nantucket Historical Association. It tells the stories of these objects and of their creator...

Creators: Harrison, Michael R., 1974- author, curator. Nantucket Historical Association,

GUSN: 361463

Call Number: Coll F72.N2 N35 2018

Nature's nation :American art and environment /Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Teddy Cruz, Rachael Z. DeLue, Mark Dion, Fonna Forman, Laura Turner Igoe, Robin Kelsey, Anne McClintock, Timothy Morton, Rob Nixon, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Kimia Shahi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm, "Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment offers a compelling new vision of American art, examining for the first time how artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding while contributing to the development of modern ...

Creators: Kusserow, Karl, author. Braddock, Alan C., 1961- author. Belarde-Lewis, Miranda, contributor. Cruz, Teddy, contributor. DeLue, Rachael Ziady, contributor. Dion, Mark, 1961- contributor. Forman, Fonna, contributor. Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- contributor. Kelsey, Robin, 1961- contributor. McClintock, Anne, 1954- contributor. Morton, Timothy, 1968- contributor. Nixon, Rob, 1954- contributor. Richmond-Moll, Jeffrey, contributor. Shahi, Kimia, contributor. Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- contributor. Princeton University. Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361464

Call Number: Coll N7650.K87 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

Concrete changes :architecture, politics, and the design of Boston City Hall /Brian M. Sirman.

ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm, 'From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new generation of politicians sw...

Creators: Sirman, Brian M., author.

GUSN: 361465

Call Number: Stacks NA4433.B57 S57 2018

Between city and country :Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia /Ronald Dale Karr.

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Karr, Ronald Dale, author.

GUSN: 361466

Call Number: Stacks F74.B9 K37 2018

Weathervanes of New England /Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer.

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "First used to gauge ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the skyline for more than three centuries. This comprehensive study of the development of the weathervane describes changes in form and functi...

Creators: Knoblock, Glenn A., author. Wemmer, David W., 1954- author.

GUSN: 361467

Call Number: Stacks NK9585.K59 2018

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