Historic New England

Poole's index to periodical literature :the first supplement, from January 1, 1882 to January 1, 1887 /by William Frederick Poole and William I. Fletcher, with the coöperation of the American Library Association.

xiii, 483 pages ; 27 cm

Date: 1963.

Creators: Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894. Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917.

GUSN: 362703

Call Number: Ref AI3.P7 suppl.1 v.2 1938

American interior design :the traditions and development of domestic design from colonial times to the present /by Meyric R. Rogers.

309 pages ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1947.

Creators: Rogers, Meyric R. (Meyric Reynold), 1893-1972.

GUSN: 362704

Call Number: Coll NK2002.R64 1947

State register of historic places /Massachusetts Historical Commission.

volumes ; 22 x 28 cm

Creators: Massachusetts Historical Commission.

GUSN: 362705

Call Number: Ref F65.S73 2021

American architecture :a history /Leland M. Roth, University of Oregon, Amanda C. Roth Clark, Whitworth University.

xlii, 673 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm, "More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the envi...

Creators: Roth, Leland M., author. Clark, Amanda C. R., 1977- author.

GUSN: 362711

Call Number: Stacks NA705.R669 2016

A world of art /Henry M. Sayre, Oregon State University-Cascades Campus.

xx, 694 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: Sayre, Henry M., 1948-

GUSN: 362712

Call Number: Stacks N7425.S29 2016

The inspired life of Sarah Ellen Waldo /Amrita M. Salm and Judy Howe Hayes.

xviii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm., "[Sarah Ellen] Waldo was the transcriber of the Inspired Talks of Swami Vivekananda, as well as the editor of most of his talks ... She was also one of a select group of women disciples and ...

Creators: Salm, Amrita M., author. Hayes, Judy Howe, author.

GUSN: 362713

Call Number: Stacks BL1175.W35 S25 2019

French sculpture :an American passion /Laure de Margerie ; with a contribution by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain ; [translation from French to English, Elisabeth Lyman, Miriam Rosen, Cole Swensen, and Susan Wise].

495 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) : 31 cm, The extraordinary abundance of French sculptures in the United States is indicative of a specific taste for this area of French art, but also of the close proximity of Franco-American historical and artistic relations. The Un...

Creators: Margerie, Laure de, author. Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette, contributor. Lyman, Elisabeth, translator. Rosen, Miriam, translator. Swensen, Cole, 1955- translator. Wise, Susan, translator.

GUSN: 362721

Call Number: Coll NB541.M3713 2023

Wallace Nutting :father of the colonial revival movement /Linda B. Palmer.

147 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, Indispensable reading for historians, novice antique collectors, antique connoisseurs, dealers, museums and historical societies. In this book you will learn the many facets of Wallace Nutting: Congregational Minister, Photographer of hand-colored platinum prints, ...

Creators: Palmer, Linda B., 1946-, author.

GUSN: 362722

Call Number: Stacks CT275.N787 P35 2020

Bigger than tiny, smaller than average /Sheri Koones.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm, Smaller, more environmentally-friendly houses seem to be the wave of the future. As people chose to move out of cities, finances and life style will limit the size of the houses these new home owners will choose. One or both people in the hom...

Creators: Koones, Sheri, 1949- author.

GUSN: 362723

Call Number: Stacks NA7533.K6635 2022

Polio pioneers :the story of the fight against polio /by Dorothy and Philip Sterling ; with photographs by Myron Ehrenberg and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Date: Ã1955.

Creators: Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-2008. Sterling, Philip, 1907-1989. Ehrenberg, Myron. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

GUSN: 362724

Call Number: Stacks RC180.9.S8

Morgan the collector :essays in honor of Linda Roth's 40th anniversary at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art /edited by Vanessa Sigalas & Jennifer Tonkovich.

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 28 cm, "The essays in this lavishly illustrated volume offer a multifaceted portrait of American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) as a collector of art. A riveting exploration of Morgan's acquisitions from antiquities ...

Creators: Sigalas, Vanessa, editor. Tonkovich, Jennifer, editor. Roth, Linda Horvitz, honouree.

GUSN: 362725

Call Number: Coll N5220.M67 M67 2023 c.1 (and 1 more)

Clarence H. White.

95 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Creators: White, Clarence H., 1871-1925, photographer.

GUSN: 362726

Call Number: Stacks TR653.W5 1979

Color /by the editors of Time-Life Books.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), color portraits ; 27 cm

Creators: Time-Life Books.

GUSN: 362727

Call Number: Stacks NH810.C71 1970

A.L. Coburn's Men of Mark :pioneers of modernism /[edited by Margaret Moore and Jennifer Huget].

91 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm

Date: [2004]

Creators: Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966. Moore, Margaret (Margaret Otheman), 1971- Huget, Jennifer. Mark Twain House & Museum.

GUSN: 362728

Call Number: Coll TR647.C62 M2 2004

An Album of stereographs :or, Our country victorious and now a happy home : from the collections of William Culp Darrah and Richard Russack.

109 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1977.

Creators: Darrah, William C. (William Culp), 1909-1989. Russack, Richard.

GUSN: 362729

Call Number: Stacks TR780.A4

A Victorian album :Julia Margaret Cameron and her circle /edited by Graham Ovenden ; introductory essay by David Cecil.

vii, 252 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 34 cm, A photograph collection of Victorian portraits collected by Julia Margaret Cameron and gifted as a photograph album to her sister Mia (Maria) Jackson in 1863. The original album was made up of two parts, the first part b...

Date: 1975.

Creators: Ovenden, Graham, editor. Cecil, David, 1902-1986, writer of introductory essay.

GUSN: 362730

Call Number: Stacks TR681.F3 V52 1975b

Atget /John Szarkowski.

224 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm, "This volume presents the essence of the work of the French photographer, Eugene Atget, in one hundred carefully selected photographs. John Szarkowski, an acknowledged master of the art of looking at photographs, explores in this book the unique sensibilities that ...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Szarkowski, John. Atget, Eugène, 1857-1927. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 362731

Call Number: stacks TR653.S9296 2000

Clementina, Lady Hawarden /edited by Graham Ovenden.

112 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Date: 1974.

Creators: Hawarden, Clementina, Lady, 1822-1865. Ovenden, Graham.

GUSN: 362732

Call Number: Stacks TR680.H354 1974

Camera work :a pictorial guide, with reproductions of all 559 illustrations and plates, fully indexed /[from the original magazine edited by] Alfred Stieglitz ; edited by Marianne Fulton Margolis.

xvii, 157 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm., "Only examples of such work as gives evidence of individuality and artistic worth, regardless of school, or contains some exceptional feature of technical merit, or such as exemplifies some treatment worthy of consideration, will find recognition in ...

Date: 1978.

Creators: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946. Margolis, Marianne Fulton.

GUSN: 362833

Call Number: stacks TR653.C34 1978

Paris :essence of an image /photographs by Alecio de Andrade ; with an essay by Julio Cortázar ; [translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa].

142 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Date: [Ã1981]

Creators: Andrade, Alecio de. Cortázar, Julio.

GUSN: 362834

Call Number: stacks TR647.A52 A4 1981

Culture throughlines :values, visions, and transformation--African American music, American culture, and society /edited by William Banfield.

xii, 194 pages ; 26 cm., "What are the connective tissues that make human narratives thread and relate; values, heritage expressions, and how these define and sustain people. As a research associate with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), the editor's work focuses on w...

Creators: Banfield, William C., 1961- editor. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 362835

Call Number: stacks L3479.C85 2023

Hand Mirror

Long, oval wooden hand mirror with delicate stringing around the glass; pine handle tapers and is pierced and has two round inlaid bits of ebony; seems to be a woman's.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: ebony (wood), mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 2782

Accession Number: 1991.1232

Blanket Chest

Rectangular bright aqua blue-painted pine blanket chest; overhanging hinged lid above projecting front and rear panels; inset sides with bracket feet; nailed and glued construction.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2783

Accession Number: 1991.1233

Footstool

Rectangular overhanging top; shaped and carved apron with carved bootjack ends; painted dark green and decorated in yellow with a pinstripe reserve enclosing leafy vine and the inscription "Frances Jane Fernald" upon the top; the front side apron is carved with pinwheels and hearts, heightened with ...

Date: 1805-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2784

Accession Number: 1991.1234

Comb-back Windsor Side Chair

Comb-shaped crestrail over seven rod-turned spindles and baluster-turned stiles on shaped seat; raised on four splayed and bulbous turned legs; side stretchers and medial stretcher; painted black with yellow-gold pinstriping.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2785

Accession Number: 1991.1235

Washstand

Pine washstand painted bright yellow with dark and lighter brown outlining; painted motif of a potted, flowering plant on a tripod on the splashboard; squared galleried top; shaped splashboard with corner shelves and sloped sides around a double-top; cut-out bowl holder with solid removable top; fou...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, gluing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2786

Accession Number: 1991.1236

Chest of Drawers, or Case of Boxes

Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2787

Accession Number: 1991.1237

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape;...

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2788

Accession Number: 1991.1238AB

Chamber Pot

Pearlware child's chamber pot ; squat, irregular bulbous body on low, flared foot; flat overhanging rim and scroll handles; decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue floral decoration and blue bands to rim and foot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2789

Accession Number: 1991.1239

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.

Date: 1834-1848

Maker: Phillips, George (Maker)

Material: ironstone (pottery), throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2790

Accession Number: 1991.1240

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conf...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2791

Accession Number: 1991.1241

Chamber Pot

A Pearlware chamber pot of squat globular form with shoulder to body handle and a flat overhanging rim. It is decorated with an underglaze blue freehand decoration of a bold, stylized scrolling vine between blue ribbed bands around the sides. There is a leaf decoration to the rim and handle and it b...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), molding (forming), painting (coating), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2792

Accession Number: 1991.1242

Doll's Canopy Bed

A tall-post canopy bed with a flat rectangular canopy resting on four pencil-turned posts and pencil-turned tapering lower posts, as well as a shaped rectangular headboard. There are four rails and it is all red-stained.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2793

Accession Number: 1991.1243

Doll Mattress

Of rectangular form, white linen with hand-sewn seams and stuffed with old blankets.

Date: 1840-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), sewing (process)

GUSN: 2794

Accession Number: 1991.1244

Doll Bed Canopy and Headcloth

A canopy for a flat-top doll's bed; an off-white cotton printed with delicate floral sprigs in brown, red, green and pink. All sides are ornamented with a cotton tape border with yellow and red wool swags. The headcloth is of the same fabric and is tacked into place.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 2795

Accession Number: 1991.1245AB

Doll Blanket

Of square form, patterned with a field of a white lined grid over a medium blue grid on a butternut ground, and enclosed by a plaid border in like colors.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2796

Accession Number: 1991.1246

Mourning Picture for Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett

Of rectangular format, of a woman bent over a neoclassical sarcophogus resting on claw feet on a rusticated base, in a wooded landscape with a foreground stream. There are trees behind and on the side and over the tomb, as well as a vine of roses. She is draped in classical style- white dress and a...

Date: 1795-1812

Maker: Bartlett, Laura, 1799-1872 (Artist) Miss Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2797

Accession Number: 1991.1248

Folio Lithograph

Colored lithograph of oblong rectangular format. It shows a small sailing schooner flying the American flag, with six men onboard, rounding the Eastern Point Light. Beside the lighthouse there stand two men waving hats and a woman waving a handkerchief. It has a plain black frame with thinly painted...

Date: 1873

Maker: Haskell & Allen (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2798

Accession Number: 1991.1249

Watercolor

Of rectangular format, of a landscape with large trees and rolling hills. On the banks of a pond is a rectangular tomb with an urn on top, adorned with a garland of roses. A cactus plant is on the forground rocks. It is possible that the gold frame with rope molding is original. [see photo neg.#4751...

Date: 1818-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2799

Accession Number: 1991.1250

Watercolor

A watercolor memorial painting, showing in the center a rectangular tomb surmounted by an urn and a wreath of roses. At left is a woman in mourning in a grey dress and scarf. To her left is a leafy tree with a bold trunk painted in oils, and two houses- one white and one yellow. At her right stands ...

Date: 1818-1825

Maker: Jarvis Newell, Mary (Maker)

Material: ink, oil paint (paint), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2800

Accession Number: 1991.1251

Watercolor

An almost square format, still life with a fluted blue bowl sprinkled with mica. It is filled with stenciled fruit of indeterminate kinds in yellow, pink and purple shades. In an original red-painted frame and glass.

Date: Sept. 1827

Maker: Stearns, Mary Ann H. (Maker)

Material: ink, mica (mineral), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2801

Accession Number: 1991.1252

Sewing Box

Paint-decorated sewing box of low rectangular form, the hinged top is painted with a scenic land and seascape view, enclosed in a yellow oval border and black ground. The sides are yellow with red outline and also with long green ovals with curvilinear freehand designs in white. It has a metal inter...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Miller, J. (Maker)

Material: nailing, painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2802

Accession Number: 1991.1253

Covered Basket

Covered basket, of flattened round form. Of fine, tightly woven straw with black and reddish Native American design woven into the sides and small black design on the rim on the flat fitted cover.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 2803

Accession Number: 1991.1254AB

Spice Box

Bentwood oval spice box, of Shaker style, straight cut laps attached with copper tacks and tiny nails. It is stamped in the center of the lid, and impressed in black. The maple sides are darkened with age, probably from an old stain or paint on the lid.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, copper (metal), impressing, maple (wood), pine (wood), stamping (forming), tacking

GUSN: 2804

Accession Number: 1991.1255AB

Seated Young Lady

Small rectangular format of a young woman in a low-cut figure dress, sitting on a red sofa with a draped red curtain in back of her. She hold a gold-tooled leather book in her right hand. There is a band of canary yellow with trompe l'acie detailing, making a frame. Oil on a mahogany panel.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)

GUSN: 2805

Accession Number: 1991.1256

Box

Painted and decorated pine knife or candle box, of long rectangular form. Has pin-hinged carved lid, wooden peg construction, painted with an allover grey-blue and paint-decorated with black freehand scrolling vine and sunburst designs on the top and three sides.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2806

Accession Number: 1991.1257

Miniature Blanket Chest Box

A painted pine box in the form of a miniature blanket chest on four black ball feet, with (re)hinged top and molding to the base. It is painted a light blue with a white trim, a four petal red flower is in the center of the front panel, with small incised 6-pointed flowers at the corners. There are ...

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, gluing, incising, painting (coating), pine (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 2807

Accession Number: 1991.1258

View of the Taunton Lunatic Asylum

Of rectangular formart, oblong, showing a view of Taunton Lunatic Asylum at the end of a long drive flanked by trees. Also a group of red brick buildings; there are three couples: one couple strolling on the lawn, one along the road, and the other in front of the building. It is in a marblized(?) bl...

Date: 1893

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2808

Accession Number: 1991.1259

Pastel Landscape

Small rectangular landscape. The scene features a central lake or pond, on which a sailboat glides; A cow grazes on a hill at the right, and houses dot the banks of the far and near shores; The scene is framed by tall trees on raised grassy mounds; the simple molded frame is worked in metal leaf, a...

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: Howland, Charity (Maker)

Material: boards (flat objects), charcoal (plant material), graphite (mineral), oil pastels

GUSN: 2809

Accession Number: 1991.1260

Painting of Family Register

Square format, painted on a soft gray background and decorated with scrolls and flowering vines and roses in shades of pale rose, yellow and blue; at the bottom are interlaced scrolls framing two landscape views of small cottages with outbuildings; there is a darker gray strip painted arounded the e...

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), ticking

GUSN: 2810

Accession Number: 1991.1261

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