Historic New England

Cincinnati art-carved furniture and interiors /Jennifer L. Howe, editor ; John Bigelow Taylor, principal photographer.

xv, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, "In the early 1850s three British expatriates - Henry Lindley Fry, his son William Henry Fry, and Benn Pitman - settled in Cincinnati and launched one of the most important manifestations of the Aesthetic movement in the United States, the Cincinna...

Date: 2003.

Creators: Howe, Jennifer. Taylor, John Bigelow.

GUSN: 367182

Call Number: Coll. NK835.O32 C553 2003

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening. Adapted to North America :with a view to improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decoration accompaniments of the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial walter, flower gardens, etc. with remarks on rural architecture. With remarks on rural architecture /by the late A.J. Downing, Esq. ; With a supplement, containing some remarks about country places, and the best methods of making them ; Also, an account of the newer deciduous and evergreen plants, lately introduced into cultivation, both hardy and half-hardy. ; And a second supplement, bringing down to the time of the issue of this edition (1875), a brief account of the various trees and shrubs which have been introduced since the former supplement to this work was published (in 1859). By He

xvi, [1], 18-592 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1875.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.

GUSN: 367323

Call Number: Stacks SB471.D756

Dutch New York between East and West :the world of Margrieta van Varick /Deborah L. Krohn and Peter N. Miller, editors with Marybeth De Filippis ; Natalie Zemon Davis [and others].

xxi, 399 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm, Runner-up for the award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection, given by the Association of Art Museum Curators Winner of the 2011 Henry Allen Moe Prize, as given by the New York State Historical Association for exce...

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Varick, Margarita van, -approximately 1696. Miller, Peter N., 1964- Krohn, Deborah L. De Filippis, Marybeth. Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-2023. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. New-York Historical Society.

GUSN: 367324

Call Number: Stacks NK512.N45 B373 2009

Wellesley College /Arlene Cohen.

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Cohen, Arlene.

GUSN: 367325

Call Number: Stacks LD7213.C64 2006

Dumbarton Oaks;a guide to the gardens,by Georgina Masson.

28 pages illustrations 23 cm

Date: 1968.

Creators: Masson, Georgina. Dumbarton Oaks.

GUSN: 367326

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U65 W363

A matter of life and death :hunting in contemporary Vermont /Marc Boglioli.

xiv, 156 pages ; 23 cm

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Boglioli, Marc, 1969-

GUSN: 367327

Call Number: Stacks GT5856.V4 B64 2009

Forgotten tales of Massachusetts /Peter F. Stevens.

157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm, When the first Pilgrims arrived on the shores of Massachusetts, they set foot in a world full of promise and new beginnings. Colonists witnessed the births of new children, governments and traditions, but even the Puritans could not wholly escape the Old World's ba...

Date: 2009.

Creators: Stevens, Peter F., 1955-

GUSN: 367328

Call Number: Stacks F64.6.S747 2009

Passamaquoddy ceremonial songs :aesthetics and survival /Ann Morrison Spinney.

xxi, 258 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Spinney, Ann Morrison, 1962-

GUSN: 367329

Call Number: Stacks E99.P27 S68 2010

West Bridgewater /James E. Benson.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Benson, James E.

GUSN: 367330

Call Number: Stacks F74.W46 B46 2009

Middleton /Shirley Paul Raynard with the Middleton Historical Society.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., Middleton was first settled in 1651. The town derives its name from its location midway between Danvers and Andover, on a road well traveled in early times. It was once known as Will's Hill, an outlying part of Salem Village. In 1692, Middleton lost ...

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Raynard, Shirley Paul. Middleton Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 367331

Call Number: Stacks F74.M63 R39 2010

The landscape architecture legacy of Dan Kiley :a guide to the National Traveling Exhibition /sponsored by The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

70 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map, plans ; 21 cm., "This exhibition and catalogue are meant to be an introduction to Kiley's life and work, not an exhaustive survey. By design, the catalogue entries, which present Kiley's projects chronologically, provides a brief history and documentat...

Creators: Cultural Landscape Foundation. Boston Architectural College, National Building Museum (U.S.),

GUSN: 367332

Call Number: Stacks SB470.K55 L36 2013

Practical landscape gardening,with reference to the improvement of rural residences, giving the general principles of the art; with full directions for planting shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, and laying out ground. By G.M. Kern.

328 pages frontispiece, plates, plans 19 cm

Date: 1855.

Creators: Kern, G. M.

GUSN: 367333

Call Number: Stacks SB471.K39

The homes of the new world :impressions of America /by Fredrika Bremer ; translated by Mary Howitt.

2 volumes ; 20 cm

Creators: Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865, author. Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, translator.

GUSN: 367334

Call Number: Stacks E166.B84 1868

John Warner Barber's views of Connecticut towns 1834-36 /edited by Christopher P. Bickford, J. Bard NcNulty.

xxix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. Bickford, Christopher P. McNulty, J. Bard (John Bard)

GUSN: 367335

Call Number: Stacks F99.B37 1990

White-tipped orange masts :Gloucester's fishing draggers /Peter K. Prybot.

250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Prybot, Peter K.

GUSN: 367336

Call Number: Sracks SH222.M4 P79 2007

Secrets of the water rats :a Rhode Island girlhood, 1930s-1940s /Jean C. McCrosky.

xii, 142 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: McCrosky, Jean C.

GUSN: 367337

Call Number: Stacks CT275.M4653544 A3 2003

Black Walden :slavery and its aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts /Elise Lemire.

232 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm, Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by...

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Lemire, Elise Virginia.

GUSN: 367338

Call Number: Stacks F74.C8 $b L46 2009

Ballykilcline rising :from famine Ireland to immigrant America /Mary Lee Dunn.

xxii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. Mary Lee Dunn tell...

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Dunn, Mary Lee.

GUSN: 367339

Call Number: Stacks F59.R9 D86 2008

George Washington & his generals /by Emily L. Schulz, Laura B. Simo ; foreword by James C. Reese ; introduction by Jack D. Warren, Jr.

190 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits ; 23 cm, "A companion to an exhibition on display February 21, 2009 through January 10, 2010 in the F.M. Kirby Foundation Gallery at the Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center at Mount Vernon."

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Schulz, Emily L. Simo, Laura B. Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center (Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)) Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. William L. Clements Library.

GUSN: 367340

Call Number: Stacks E312.17 S38x 2009

The Baker Chocolate Company :a sweet history /Anthony Sammarco.

126 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm, In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon, though penniless, possessed the rare skills required to create chocolate--a delicacy exclu...

Date: 2009.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 367341

Call Number: Stacks HD9200.U54 B357 2009

Beverly revisited.

128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., Beverly was first settled by five men known as the "Old Planters" and was incorporated as a town in 1668. Its first minister, Rev. John Hale, was the author of an important work on the Salem witch hysteria. In 1775, the schooner Hannah, the first commissione...

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Beverly Historical Society.

GUSN: 367342

Call Number: Stacks F74.B35 B62 2010

25 years of Record houses /edited by Herbert L. Smith, Jr.

xii, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm, Describes and illustrates fifty-seven award-winning homes and discusses the approaches they have taken towards space, structure, function, and energy conservation.

Date: Ã1981.

Creators: Smith, Herbert L.

GUSN: 367343

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.A13

Haverhill, Massachusetts :an industrial and commercial center.

260 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Date: 1889.

Creators: Haverhill Board of Trade. Committee on Statistics and Information.

GUSN: 367344

Call Number: Stacks F74.H5 H56

Typical elms and other trees of Massachusetts.Introductory chapter by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Descriptive text by Lorin L. Dame. Plates by Henry Brooks, reproduced by the photogelatine process.

89 pages 58 plates 36 cm

Date: 1890.

Creators: Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. Brooks, Henry, 1857-

GUSN: 367345

Call Number: Rare QK484.M4 D2

A space for faith :the colonial meeting houses of New England /Paul Wainwright, photographer ; essay by Peter Benes ; foreword by Brent D. Glass ; commentary by William E. Williams.

xiv, 114 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm, Using only four-by-five-inch sheet film and natural light, photographer Paul Wainwright collected and presents images, both internal and external, of New England's remaining colonial meetinghouses.

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Wainwright, Paul (Paul Frederick)

GUSN: 367346

Call Number: Stacks NA5215.W35 2009

Richard Andrew :called to paint /Marian G. Mullet, author ; Martha M. Winsor, researcher and editor ; Deborah W. Batt, photographer and graphic designer.

ix, 160 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Mullet, Marian G. Winsor, Martha M. Batt, Deborah W.

GUSN: 367347

Call Number: Coll. ND237.A53 M85 2010

Seen and received :the Shakers' private art /Sharon Duane Koomler.

69 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm

Date: 2000.

Creators: Koomler, Sharon Duane.

GUSN: 367348

Call Number: Stacks NC107.K66 2000

Pawtuxet Rhode Island /Donald A. D'Amato and Henry A.L. Brown.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1997.

Creators: D'Amato, Donald A., 1931- Brown, Henry A. L., 1931-

GUSN: 367349

Call Number: Stacks F89.P39 D36 1997

Boston's West End /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm., Features a collection of black-and-white photographs that showcase the development of Boston's West End, as well as the people and places that have come to define it.

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 367350

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.W47 S36 1998

Davisville and the Seabees /Walter K. Schroder and Gloria A. Emma.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: Schroder, Walter K., 1928- Emma, Gloria A.

GUSN: 367351

Call Number: Stacks VA66.C6 S35 1999

Braintree /John A. Dennehy.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Dennehy, John A.

GUSN: 367352

Call Number: Stacks F74.B6 D46 2010

Steamboats of Gloucester and the North Shore /John Lester Sutherland.

pages cm

Date: 2004.

Creators: Sutherland, John Lester.

GUSN: 367353

Call Number: Stacks HE5784.G55 S88 2004

The Revolutionary War in Bennington County :a history and guide /Richard B. Smith.

160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2008.

Creators: Smith, Richard B.

GUSN: 367354

Call Number: Stacks E230.5.V3 S65 2008

Pittsfield :Gem City in the Gilded Age /Carole Owens.

117 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm

Date: 2007.

Creators: Owens, Carole.

GUSN: 367355

Call Number: Stacks F74.P6 O84 2007

Newton Massachusetts, 1688-1988 :a celebration of three hundred years. Looking at Newton : the garden city in 1988 /by Thelma Fleishman ; with concluding chapter by Elsie M. Husher.

126 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1988.

Creators: Fleishman, Thelma. Looking at Newton. Newton Tricentennial Corporation (Newton, Mass.)

GUSN: 367356

Call Number: Stacks F74.N56 N48 1988

Side Chair

Upholstered back; molded rails; tapered legs with carved "panel;" molding suggests spade feet.

Date: 1890-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: sycamore (wood), upholstering

GUSN: 2020

Accession Number: 1978.107.2

Rocking Chair

Upholstered back; open crest rail above back; curved legs; long rockers; low, deep seat molded rails.

Date: 1890-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: sycamore (wood), upholstering

GUSN: 2021

Accession Number: 1978.107.3

Side Chair

Square crest with stencil; three round, bent slats; turned front legs and stretchers; balloon seat.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2022

Accession Number: 1933.6221.2

Side Chair

Square crest with stencil; three round, bent slats; turned front legs and stretchers; balloon seat.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2023

Accession Number: 1933.6221.1

Side Chair

Square crest with stencil; three round, bent slats; turned front legs and stretchers; balloon seat.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2024

Accession Number: 1933.6221.3

Side Chair

Square crest with stencil; three round, bent slats; turned front legs and stretchers; balloon seat.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2025

Accession Number: 1933.6221.4

Side Chair

Square crest with stencil; three round, bent slats; turned front legs and stretchers; balloon seat.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling, wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2026

Accession Number: 1933.6221.5

Grecian Fancy Chair

Imitation rosewood graining. S-curved stiles; shaped horizontal splat; rush seat.

Date: 1820-1845

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, rush (material), stenciling

GUSN: 2027

Accession Number: 1964.396B

DEACCESSIONED Chair

DEACCESSIONED Side chair with a shaped crest, a plain slat with applied veneers, and Klismos-type legs. The seat is covered with brown and cream striped upholstery with pink and blue flowers.

Date: 1835-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), mahogany (wood), veneer

GUSN: 2028

Accession Number: 1933.6890.4

DEACCESSIONED Chair

DEACCESSIONED Side chair with a shaped crest, a plain slat with applied veneers, and Klismos-type legs. The seat is covered with brown and cream striped upholstery with pink and blue flowers.

Date: 1835-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: walnut (wood), mahogany (wood), veneer

GUSN: 2029

Accession Number: 1933.6890.3