Historic New England

Beaux arts to Bauhaus and beyond :an architect's perspective /by Harold Bush-Brown.

128 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Bush-Brown, Harold.

GUSN: 271159

Call Number: Stacks NA737.B87 A22 1976

Garden ornaments,by Mary H. Northend ...

8 p. l., 3-178 p. front., 31 pl. 23 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850-1926.

GUSN: 271160

Call Number: Stacks SB454.N6 1916

Arcadian days;American landscapes in nature and art,by W.H. Downes. Illustrated by A.H. Bicknell.

182 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1891]

Creators: Downes, William Howe, 1854-1941. Bicknell, Albion Harris, 1837-1915, illus.

GUSN: 271161

Call Number: Stacks PS1549.D77 A8 1891

The home garden.By Ella Rodman Church.

121 p. front., ill. 20 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Church, Ella Rodman, b. 1831.

GUSN: 271162

Call Number: Stacks Q734.A6 vol.3

Odds were against me :a memoir /by Katharine Lane Weems, as told to Edward Weeks ; with a foreword by Walker Hancock.

xii, 162 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Weems, Katharine Lane. Weeks, Edward, 1898-

GUSN: 271163

Call Number: Stacks NB237.W44 A2 1985

Quaint furniture in arts and crafts :genuine Russia and Spanish Morocco leather : Russian hand beaten copper.

79 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Stickley Bros. Co.

GUSN: 271164

Call Number: Stacks TS887.S88 1981

Young designs in living.

159 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Plumb, Barbara.

GUSN: 271165

Call Number: Stacks NK2130.P55 1969

Design for life :our daily lives, the spaces we shape, and the ways we communicate, as seen through the collections of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum /by Susan Yelavich ; edited by Stephen Doyle ; designed and produced by Drenttel Doyle Partners.

192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm., "The gloriously diverse collections of America's National Design Museum comprise a unique history of design. These extraordinary objects tell stories about themselves and about us: how we go about our daily lives, how we shape the spaces we live and work in, and t...

Date: 1997.

Creators: Yelavich, Susan. Doyle, Stephen. Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

GUSN: 271166

Call Number: Coll. NK460.N4 C666 1997

A directory of British teapots /by Michael Berthoud & Richard Maskell.

xx, 364 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: [2006].

Creators: Berthoud, Michael. Maskell, Richard.

GUSN: 271217

Call Number: Coll. NK4695.T43 B47 2006

Women's work :embroidery in Colonial Boston /Pamela Parmal [and Mary Holingworth English ... et al.].

174 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Parmal, Pamela A. English, Mary Hollingsworth, d. ca. 1694. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 271218

Call Number: Book Prize NK9212.P37 2012 c.1 (and 1 more)

John Smibert :colonial America's first portrait painter /Richard H. Saunders.

xii, 280 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Saunders, Richard H., 1949- Smibert, John, 1688-1751.

GUSN: 271219

Call Number: Coll. ND1329.S63 S28 1995

A window into collecting American folk art :the Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton.

162 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Emans, Charlotte M. Princeton University. Art Museum.

GUSN: 271220

Call Number: Coll. N714.P65 A75 1999

The White House :its historic furnishings and first families /by Betty C. Monkman ; principal photography by Bruce White.

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm., With a fascinating text by the curator of the White House, this illustrated, ground breaking book is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the furnishings of the President's house, and the changing tastes of the first families.

Date: c2000.

Creators: Monkman, Betty C. White, Bruce, 1962-

GUSN: 271221

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.W37 M66 2000

American originals :selections from Reynolda House, Museum of American Art /essay by Charles C. Eldredge ; catalog by Barbara B. Millhouse with the assistance of Robert Workman.

135 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1990.

Creators: Eldredge, Charles C. Millhouse, Barbara Babcock. Workman, Robert G. Reynolda House. American Federation of Arts. Center for the Fine Arts (Miami, Fla.)

GUSN: 271222

Call Number: Coll. ND205.A657 1990

Fabrics for historic buildings /Jane C. Nylander.

64 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938-

GUSN: 271223

Call Number: Coll. TS1767.N94 1977

All-Maine cooking /compiled and edited by Ruth Wiggin and Loana Shibles ; illustrated by Anna Parker.

187 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1967 (1991 printing).

Creators: Wiggin, Ruth. Shibles, Loana.

GUSN: 271224

Call Number: Coll. TX715.2.N48 A54 1974

Food-buying and meal-planning;edited by Miriam B. Reichl.

255 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: [1952]

Creators: Hallam, Barbara Halton.

GUSN: 271225

Call Number: Coll. TX355.H26 1952

Textile History Forum :proceedings of the Textile History Forum, July 7-8, 2000, Cooperstown, N.Y. /compilation by Jacqueline M. Atkins.

189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Textile History Forum. Forum (2000 : Cooperstown, N.Y.)

GUSN: 271226

Call Number: Coll. TS1300.T49 P76 2000

Revelation and the life to come /edited with an introduction in two parts by the author of "The way: the nature and means of revelation."

v, 216 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Weir, John F. (John Ferguson), 1841-1926.

GUSN: 271227

Call Number: Coll. BR50.R48 1916

Windows on the past :four centuries of New England homes /Jane C. Nylander with Diane Viera ; color photographs by David Bohl ; foreword by Wendell Garrett ; introd. by Carl R. Nold.

[207] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Nylander, Jane C., 1938- Viera, Diane L. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

GUSN: 271228

Call Number: Coll. F5.N95 2009 (and 4 more)

America's kitchens /Nancy Carlisle and Melinda Talbot Nasardinov, with Jennifer Pustz.

x, 197 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Carlisle, Nancy Camilla. Nasardinov, Melinda Talbot, 1974- Pustz, Jennifer.

GUSN: 271229

Call Number: Coll. TX653.C348 2008

Wallpapers for historic buildings :a guide to selecting reproduction wallpapers /Richard C. Nylander.

263 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm., A catalog of more than 1,000 authentically reproduced designs available today.

Date: c1992.

Creators: Nylander, Richard C.

GUSN: 272222

Call Number: Coll. NK3399.N94 1992

Traditional tapa textiles of the Pacific /Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast ; photography by Krzysztof Pfeiffer.

160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.

Date: 1998.

Creators: Neich, Roger. Pendergrast, Mick, 1932- Pfeiffer, Krzysztof.

GUSN: 272223

Call Number: Coll. GN432.N45 1998

The Holy Bible :containing the Old and New Testaments /translated out of the original tongues, being the version set forth A.D. 1611 ; compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1881-1885 ; newly edited by the American revision committee A.D. 1901.

ix, 922, vi, 285 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Date: c1901.

Creators: American Revision Committee.

GUSN: 272224

Call Number: GRO BS190.A 1901 N4

Bath and West Bath /Joyce K. Bibber.

128 p. : chiefly ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1995

Creators: Bibber, Joyce K.

GUSN: 272315

Call Number: Stacks F29.B4 B53 1995

The American pharos, or Light-house guide :founded on official reports received at the Treasury Department : Also, a general view of the coast, from the St. Lawrence to the Sabine. : To which is added an appendix, containing an account of the light houses on the Gulf and River St. Lawrence, with sailing directions for the St. Lawrence: founded on official reports from the Trinity Board of Quebec, in 1832. : [Four lines of quotation] /By Robert Mills, P.A. engineer and architect, member of the Columbian Institute.

184 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Mills, Robert, 1781-1855. Force, Peter, 1790-1868, printer. Thompson & Homans,

GUSN: 272342

Call Number: Rare VK1241.M65

A Weston timeline /by Pamela W. Fox.

40 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: c2012.

Creators: Fox, Pamela W. Weston (Mass.). Historical Commission. Weston Historical Society.

GUSN: 272346

Call Number: Stacks F72 .W478 F69 1995

Pictorial views of Massachusetts :for the young.

[64] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: [between 1853 and 1865].

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. Brown, Samuel E., d. ca. 1860. Enos Dorr & Co.

GUSN: 272371

Call Number: Rare E18.7 .M37 E567

Christina Albertas Vater,Roman.

549, [3] p. 20 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Mandl, Otto, tr. Mark, Richard, joint tr.

GUSN: 272482

Call Number: GRO PR5774.C4 G4 1929

Wood-frame house construction /by L.O. Anderson.

v, 223 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Anderson, L. O. (LeRoy Oscar), 1905-

GUSN: 272483

Call Number: Stacks TH4818.W6 A52 1975

Remains of Samuel Bartlett Parris, M. D.,comprising miscellaneous poems and essays, selected from his manuscripts; with a biographical sketch of the author.

xii, [13]-312 p., 1 l.

Date: 1829. [c1828]

Creators: Parris, Samuel Bartlett, 1806-1827.

GUSN: 272484

Call Number: Rare PS2523.P4 1829

Pages from an architect's sketch book, 1900-1930.

[52] leaves : chiefly ill. (2 col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Emerson, William, 1873-1957.

GUSN: 272485

Call Number: Rare NA737.E5 A3 1930

Line, shade, and shadow :the fabrication and preservation of architectural drawings /Lois Olcott Price.

xx, 359 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., "Explores materials and techniques used in the creation of eighteenth- to twentieth-century architectural drawings. Examines the development of drafting, changing media and techniques, presentation, history, and preservation of drawings. Illustrated with examp...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Price, Lois Olcott.

GUSN: 272498

Call Number: 85M Ref NA2705.P75 2010

The complete historical record of New England's stricken area, September 21, 1938.More than 700 vivid views.

[96] p. illus., map 12 x 30 cm.

Date: [c1938]

GUSN: 272586

Call Number: Rare F9.B864 1938

Historic paperhanging techniques :a bibliographic essay /by Robert M. Kelly.

13 leaves ; 28 cm.

Creators: Kelly, Robert M. International Preservation Trades Workshop

GUSN: 272615

Call Number: Ref. TH8441.H57 2011

Tales from Boccaccio,Englished from the French of Jean de La Fontaine, illus. by Richard Floethe.

124 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695. Flöthe, Richard, ill. Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.

GUSN: 272946

Call Number: GRO PQ1811.E4 F55

Letters of a woman homesteader /by Elinore Pruitt Stewart ; with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

281 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm., The letters written by Stewart through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell of her frontier life homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming.

Date: 1982, c1942.

Creators: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933. Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945.

GUSN: 272947

Call Number: Roth/Coll. F761.S8 1982

The Levittowners :ways of life and politics in a new suburban community /Herbert J. Gans ; with a new preface by the author.

xli, 474 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1982, c1967.

Creators: Gans, Herbert J.

GUSN: 273052

Call Number: Stacks HN80 .W497 G36 1982

Jeffrey's creek :a story of people, places and event in the town that came to be known as Manchester-by-the-Sea /by Gordon Abbott.

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

Date: 2003.

Creators: Abbott, Gordon. Manchester Historical Society (Manchester, Mass.)

GUSN: 273055

Call Number: Stacks F74.M26 A33 2003

Barns /John Michael Vlach.

400 p. : ill., map ; 29 cm. + 1 computer optical disc., "The body of this book offers a treasury of images - photographs, many by noted photographers - as well as plans and elevations, with captions that furnish relevant information about each building and region: subject, location, date, creator(s)...

Date: c2003.

Creators: Vlach, John Michael, 1948- Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering (U.S.)

GUSN: 273056

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.V6 2003

Harvard encyclopedia of American ethnic groups /Stephan Thernstrom, editor ; Ann Orlov, managing editor, Oscar Handlin, consulting editor.

xxv, 1076 p. : maps ; 29 cm., Informative and entertaining, this volume is an indispensable reference work for home, library, and office. It establishes a foundation for the burgeoning field of ethnic studies; it will satisfy and stimulate the popular interest in ancestry and heritage. It is a guide...

Date: 1980.

Creators: Thernstrom, Stephan.

GUSN: 273057

Call Number: Stacks E184.A1 H35 1980

Wisdom :conversations with the elder wise men of our day /edited and with an introd. by James Nelson.

273 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1958.

Creators: Nelson, James, ed.

GUSN: 273128

Call Number: GRO CB427 W55 1958

Themes and episodes[by] Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft.

x, 352, xvi p. music. 22 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Craft, Robert.

GUSN: 273129

Call Number: GRO ML410.S932 A38

Frankfurter Vorlesungen.

121 p. 18 cm.

Date: [1968]

Creators: Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985.

GUSN: 273130

Call Number: GRO PT2603.O394 F7 1968

Other inquisitions, 1937-1952.Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms. Introd. by James E. Irby.

xviii, 205 p. 24 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

GUSN: 273131

Call Number: GRO PN518.B643

Gutachten der Akademie der Künste zum Entwurf eines Denkmals des unbekannten politischen Gefangenen /[Hans Egon Holthusen].

No description

Date: 1956.

Creators: Holthusen, Hans Egon. Akademie der Künste (Berlin, West)

GUSN: 273132

Call Number: GRO 614909973

Kein Ort zu bleibenFranz Mueller

315 S. Kt. 8À

Date: [ca. 1949]

Creators: Mueller, Franz

GUSN: 273133

Call Number: GRO D811.5

Niemandsland :Roman /Schutzumschlag: Johannes Troyer.

IV, 197 S. ; 19,5x12,5 cm.

Date: 1940.

Creators: Brand, Renée. Troyer, Johannes.

GUSN: 273134

Call Number: GRO 78423902

Arche Noah SOS :Alte u. neue Gedichte, Lieder u. Chansons.

162 S.

Date: 1951.

Creators: Mehring, Walter.

GUSN: 273135

Call Number: GRO 30901743

The private life of the master race,a documentary play.English version and an essay on the work of Brecht by Eric Russell Bentley.

5 p. l., 140 p. group port. 19 x 15 cm.

Date: [1944]

Creators: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Bentley, Eric, 1916- tr.

GUSN: 273136

Call Number: GRO PT2603.R397 F82 1944a

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