Historic New England

Albion's seed :four British folkways in America /by David Hackett Fischer.

xxi, 946 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., Discusses the transplanting of British folkways to America during four waves of immigration between 1629 and 1775.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-

GUSN: 313528

Call Number: Stacks E169.1.F539 1989

The paintings of John Calvin Stevens /by Paul S. Stevens, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

48 pages : illustrations

Date: 2015.

Creators: Stevens, Paul S. Stevens, John Calvin. Shellteworth, Earle G., Jr.

GUSN: 313529

Call Number: Coll. ND1140.S643 S74 2015

The Hitchcock family :including the principal lines Blakely, Mulhern, Porter, Sinclair and Suitsby Lauren Blakely Hitchcock.

188 pages

Date: 1961.

Creators: Hitchcock, Lauren Blakely.

GUSN: 313530

Call Number: Stacks CS2391.H583

Book of common prayer, according to the use of King's chapel, Boston.

xii, 407 pages 26 cm

Date: 1850.

Creators: Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pitt), 1797-1843, editor. King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 313531

Call Number: Rare BX5943.A4 B6 1850

Amelia Peabody /by Linda Smith Rhoads for the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund.

36, [4] pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Rhoads, Linda Smith. Otto, Julie Helen. Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund.

GUSN: 313763

Call Number: Stacks HV28.P38 R44 1998

Improved pruning and training of fruit trees;or, extension versus restriction,by John Simpson.

xii, 115 pages, illustrations

Date: [1880]

Creators: Simpson, John.

GUSN: 313764

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB356.S567 1803

A book of joys :the story of a New England summer /by Lucy Fitch Perkins ; with illustrations in color by the author.

212 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1907.

Creators: Perkins, Lucy Fitch, 1865-1937.

GUSN: 313765

Call Number: Stacks F9.P44

The chemistry of cooking and cleaning ;a manual for house keepers[by] Ellen H. Richards [and] S. Maria Elliott.

vi pages, 1 leaf, 186 pages 18 cm

Date: 1914.

Creators: Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911. Elliott, S. Maria (Sophronia Maria), 1854- author.

GUSN: 313766

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX531.R53 1914

American furniture of the colonial and early federal periods, together with Queen Anne and Georgian furniture, fine English porcelains and other decorations :the superb collection belonging to the estate of the late Francis Shaw of Wayland, Mass.

164 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1935.

Creators: Packer, Charles. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

GUSN: 313767

Call Number: Coll. NK2265.A4

Food ; what it is and does,by Edith Greer.

vii, 251 pages illustrations, plates, diagrams 19 cm.

Date: [Ã1915]

Creators: Greer, Edith.

GUSN: 313768

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX353.G7 1915

How to use color and decorating designs in the home.

251 pages illustrations (some color) 26 cm

Date: [1949]

Creators: Ketcham, Howard, 1902-1982.

GUSN: 313769

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.K48

North Haven summers :an oral history /by Eleanor Motley Richardson ; with a foreword by Herbert Parsons Jr.

256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Date: 1992.

Creators: Richardson, Eleanor Motley.

GUSN: 313770

Call Number: Stacks F29.N68 R5

The cutting edge :50 years of British fashion, 1947-1997 /edited by Amy De La Haye.

208 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1997.

Creators: De La Haye, Amy.

GUSN: 313771

Call Number: Coll. GT738.C87 1997

Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts :an illustrated history of the property (including Abbot Academy) /by Robert Domingue.

iv, 198 pages : illustrations

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Domingue, Robert A.

GUSN: 313773

Call Number: Stacks LD7501.A5 D66 1990

Legendary locals of East Boston, Massachusetts /Regina Marchi.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Creators: Marchi, Regina M., 1965-

GUSN: 314846

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.E2 M37 2015

Breaking ground :Henry B. Hoover, New England modern architect /Lucretia Hoover Giese and Henry B. Hoover Jr.

xx, 142 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Giese, Lucretia H., author. Hoover, Henry B., Jr., author.

GUSN: 314847

Call Number: Rare NA737.H615 G54 2015

Heroic :concrete architecture and the new Boston /editors, Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley.

335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Creators: Pasnik, Mark, editor. Kubo, Michael, editor. Grimley, Chris, editor.

GUSN: 314848

Call Number: Stacks NA735.B7 H47 2015

Boston's cycling craze, 1880-1900 :a story of race, sport, and society /Lorenz J. Finison.

xi, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Finison, Lorenz J. (Lorenz John), 1941-

GUSN: 314849

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV1045.5.M42 B673 2014

Der sinnhafte Aufbau der gebauten Welt :eine Architektursoziologie /Silke Steets.

274 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Date: 2015.

Creators: Steets, Silke, 1973-

GUSN: 314850

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 S654x 2015

A world more bright :the life of Mary Baker Eddy /by Isabel Ferguson and Heather Vogel Frederick.

vi, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Ferguson, Isabel. Frederick, Heather Vogel. Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910. Science and health. Christian Science Publishing Society.

GUSN: 314851

Call Number: Stacks BX6995.F475 2013

Cape Cod modern :midcentury architecture and community on the Outer Cape /Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton ; new photographs by Raimund Koch ; new drawings by Thomas Dalmas.

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intelle...

Creators: McMahon, Peter, 1957- author. Cipriani, Christine, author. Frampton, Kenneth, writer of foreword. Koch, Raimund, photographer.

GUSN: 314853

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7235.M42 C3746 2014 (and 1 more)

Colonial New Hampshire :a history /Jere R. Daniell.

xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Daniell, Jere R.

GUSN: 314854

Call Number: Stacks F37.D25 2015

African Americans of Martha's Vineyard :from enslavement to presidential visit /Thomas Dresser.

160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Dresser, Tom.

GUSN: 314855

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 D74 2010

Wesleyan University, 1910-1970 :academic ambition and middle-class America /David B. Potts.

xxiv, 677 pages ; 25 cm

Creators: Potts, David B. (David Bronson)

GUSN: 314856

Call Number: Stacks LD5901.W32 P683 2015

Progressive design in the Midwest :the Purcell-Cutts House and the Prairie School Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts /Jennifer Komar Olivarez ; with the assistance of Corine A. Wegener ; introductory essay by Roger G. Kennedy.

197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "Largely regarded as one of the most important movements of American architecture and design, the Prairie School helped move America into the modern age. Signaling a departure from nineteenth-century formality, its practitioners sought to create buildings that were...

Date: 2000.

Creators: Olivarez, Jennifer Komar. Wegener, Corine A. Kennedy, Roger G. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

GUSN: 314857

Call Number: Coll. NA7238.M54 O44 2000

Boston's Orange Line /Andrew Elder and Jeremy C. Fox.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Elder, Andrew, 1980- Fox, Jeremy C., 1975-

GUSN: 317340

Call Number: Stacks HE4491.B78 E43 2013

Nantucket /James Everett Grieder and Georgen Charnes.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Grieder, James Everett. Charnes, Georgen.

GUSN: 317341

Call Number: Stacks F72.N2 G64 2012

No ordinary being :W. Starling Burgess: inventor, naval architect, poet, aviation pioneer, and master of American design : a biography /by Llewellyn Howland III.

xii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm, "Few twentieth-century Americans lived a more creative, event-filled, and often conflicted life than the Boston-born aviation pioneer and yacht designer W. Starling Burgess. Orphaned at twelve, Burgess received his first patent at nineteen, left Harvard, ...

Creators: Howland, Llewellyn, III.

GUSN: 317342

Call Number: Stacks CT275.B785 H68 2015

Arts & crafts architecture :history and heritage in New England /Maureen Meister.

xvi, 288 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm, "This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement...

Creators: Meister, Maureen.

GUSN: 317343

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA715.M45 2014

Ruth Webb Lee's handbook of early American pressed glass patterns.

[212] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

Date: [Ã1964]

Creators: Lee, Ruth Webb, 1894-

GUSN: 317344

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.L43 1936

Planning the city upon a hill :Boston since 1630 /Lawrence W. Kennedy.

xi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Date: Ã1992.

Creators: Kennedy, Lawrence W., 1952-

GUSN: 317430

Call Number: Stacks HT168.B6 K46 1992

Early native literacies in New England :a documentary and critical anthology /edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss.

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Bross, Kristina. Wyss, Hilary E.

GUSN: 318532

Call Number: Stacks E99.A35 E37 2008

Italian villas and their gardens /by Edith Wharton ; illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parish and by photos.

xii, 270 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976, Ã1904.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

GUSN: 318533

Call Number: Stacks NA7594.W46 1976

A guide to the preventive conservation of photograph collections /Bertrand Lavédrine, Sybille Manod & Jean-Paul Gandolfo.

312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Date: 2003.

Creators: Lavédrine, Bertrand. Manod, Sybille. Gandolfo, Jean-Paul. Getty Conservation Institute.

GUSN: 318534

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR465.L39 2003

The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants /with the best wishes of the author, John William Linzee, Jr.

xii, 609 pages : portraits, plates ; 25 cm

Date: 1913.

Creators: Linzee, John William, 1867-

GUSN: 320034

Benjamin Franklin :a perspective : [catalogue of] an exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 17 through September 22, 1975 /by Louise Todd Ambler.

147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Date: 1975.

Creators: Ambler, Louise Todd. Fogg Art Museum.

GUSN: 321073

The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson /compiled from family letters and reminiscences by his great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph.

xiii, 384 pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, plan, portraits ; 24 cm

Date: 1947.

Creators: Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892.

GUSN: 321199

The tragedies of Shakespeare.

1266 pages ; 18 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

GUSN: 321590

Golden :Dutch and Flemish masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo collection /Frederik J. Duparc with Femke Diercks, Reinier Baarsen, and Loek Van Aalst.

404 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm, Golden accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States of one of the finest private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the world.

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Duparc, Frederik J. Diercks, Femke. Baarsen, Reinier. Aalst, Loek van. Peabody Essex Museum. Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands)

GUSN: 321844

Call Number: Stacks ND625.D87 2011

The history of the Boston medical library, by John W. Farlow.

240 pages frontispiece, illustrations (plans) plates, portraits, facsimiles, diagram 25 cm

Date: 1918.

Creators: Farlow, John Woodford, 1853-1937.

GUSN: 305665

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B746

The centennial history of the Boston Medical Library, 1875-1975 /Joseph E. Garland.

xiv, 223 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1975.

Creators: Garland, Joseph E. Boston Medical Library.

GUSN: 305666

Call Number: Stacks Z733.B746 G37

Quabbin :the lost valley /compiled by Donald W. Howe ; edited by Roger Nye Lincoln ; sketches by Elizabeth Howe Lincoln.

xviii, 631 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: 1951.

Creators: Howe, Donald W. (Donald William), 1892-1977.

GUSN: 305668

Call Number: Stacks F72.S94 F51

Literary trails of Eastern North Carolina :a guidebook /Georgann Eubanks ; photographs by Donna Campbell.

x, 367 p. : col. illustrations. col. maps ; 25 cm.

Date: [2013]

Creators: Eubanks, Georgann. Campbell, Donna, 1951-

GUSN: 306316

Call Number: Stacks PS144.N63 E9 2013

Palliser's American architecture.

No description

Date: 1896.

Creators: Tomlan, Michael A. Palliser, Palliser & co., firm, architects, New York.

GUSN: 307954

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7207.P35 1896

The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book :containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs. Together with much valuable instruction for all mechanics and amateurs, useful rules, tables, etc. ... /by H.W. Holly ... Illustrated by forty-three engravings.

57 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Date: 1888, Ã1863.

Creators: Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells)

GUSN: 307955

Call Number: Rare TH5608.H74 1888

The cabinetmaker & the carver :Boston furniture from private collections /Gerald W.R. Ward.

59 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 2013.

Creators: Ward, Gerald W. R. Massachusetts Historical Society.

GUSN: 307956

Call Number: Coll. NK2438.B6 W37 2013

The backstory of wallpaper :paper-hangings, 1650-1750 /Robert M. Kelly.

183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Creators: Kelly, Robert M., 1949-

GUSN: 307957

Call Number: Stacks NK3400.K45 2013 (and 1 more)

A history of Howard Johnson's :how a Massachusetts soda fountain became an American icon /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

pages cm, "The story of the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain"-- Provided by publisher., "Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to the West Coast. Popularly known as the "Father of the Franchise Industr...

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 307958

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX945.5.H595 S25 2013

The New England story, a novel.

346 pages 21 cm

Date: [1958]

Creators: Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-

GUSN: 307959

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O75933

In Berkshire fields, by Walter Prichard Eaton; illustrated by Walter King Stone.

xii 312 pages illustrations, plates (some color) 23 cm

Date: [1920]

Creators: Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957.

GUSN: 307960

Call Number: Stacks QH81 E3

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