Historic New England

Letterhead for M.D. Wells Co., boots & shoes, Monroe St. & Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., August 31, 1908

Letterhead of M.D. Wells Co., maker of boots and shoes. Ltterhead contains illustration of the company's trademark. M.D. Wells, whose business is in Chicago, writes from Lakeville, Conn. to secure an extra room for his party of 8 arriving at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York.

Date: August 31, 1908

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 397913

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.02.022

Billhead for W. L. Douglas, manufacturer of men's, boys' and youths' shoes, Brockton, Mass., Sept. 14, 1885

Billhead for W. L. Douglas Shoe Company in Borckton, Mass. Billhead includes illustration of the company's trademark. Billhead documents an order of a dozen shoes by J. S. Randall of Pittsford, Vermont. Also includes original envelope.

Date: September 24, 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 397914

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.02.023

Advertisement, Wire Grip Fastening Co., 298 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass., circa 1900

Advertising booklet (4 pages) shaped like the upper sole of a shoe. Printed by L. Barta & Co. for the Wire Grip Fastening Co. of Boston, Mass. Booklet details benefits of using the company's machinery to manufacture shoes.

Date: circa 1900

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 397915

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.02.024

Catlin's Indian gallery : the George Catlin paintings in the United States National Museum.

32 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Halpin, Marjorie. Catlin, George, 1796-1872. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 145995

Call Number: Roth ND237.C3 H3

Gentlemen on the frontier; a pictorial record of the culture of Michilimackinac, by Eugene T. Petersen.

66 p. illus., plan. 22 x 28 cm.

Date: 1964]

Creators: Petersen, Eugene T.

GUSN: 145996

Call Number: Roth F572.M14 P4

The yachtsman's souvenir : containing portraits of over two hundred well known yachts of various classes / from the original photographs of N.L. Stebbins ; with a descriptive index.

[6] p., 54 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 17 x 23 cm.

Date: [1889?]

Creators: Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922.

GUSN: 145997

Call Number: Stacks GV815.S82

Handbook of the Department of Decorative Arts of Europe and America, by Edwin J. Hipkiss ...

[110] p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. plans) 22 cm.

Date: 1928.

Creators: Hipkiss, Edwin James, 1885- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dept. of Decorative Arts of Europe and America.

GUSN: 145998

Call Number: Coll. NK460.B6 A5 1928

Elizabethan architecture and ornament / by Charles James Richardson, and others.

55 leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [18--]

Creators: Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806-1871. George H. Polley & Co.

GUSN: 145999

Call Number: Rare NA965.R53

Homes of American statesmen: with anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers. Illustrated with engravings on wood, from drawings by Dèopler and daguerreotypes: and facsimiles of autograph letters.

2 p. l., [iii]-viii, 469 p. front. (mounted photo) illus., plates, facsims. (part fold) 23 cm.

Date: 1854.

GUSN: 146000

Call Number: Rare E176.H77 1854

The bells of England / by J.J. Raven.

xv, 338 p. [8] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 23 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Raven, John James, 1833-1906.

GUSN: 146001

Call Number: Coll. CC210.R3 1906

The glass of fashion, 1830-1930 / [Joan Severa].

20 p. : ill. ; 18 x 28 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Severa, Joan. Rochester Museum and Science Center. Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum.

GUSN: 146002

Call Number: Coll. GT595.S49 1974

The Museum of Modern Art--Woman's home companion exhibition house / Gregory Ain, architect. Exhibition dates: May 19-October 29, 1950.

19 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Ain, Gregory, 1908- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 146003

Call Number: Roth NA7571.N485x

Hudson River school.

viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 16 x 23 cm.

Date: c1968

Creators: Jones, Agnes Halsey. State University of New York College, Geneseo. Fine Arts Center.

GUSN: 146004

Call Number: Coll. ND1351.5 H77

Colonial furniture and interiors, comp. and photographed by Newton W. Elwell.

3 p. l. LXVI pl. 46 cm.

Date: [1896]

Creators: Elwell, Newton W.

GUSN: 146005

The new world architecture, by Sheldon Cheney ... with 389 illustrations.

ix, 404 p. illus., plates. 26 x 19 cm.

Date: 1935 [c1930]

Creators: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-

GUSN: 146006

Call Number: Stacks NA680.C5

Wood finishing, plain and decorative, by F.N. Vanderwalker.

1 p. l., 5-361 p. incl. illus., plates, diagr. 19 cm.

Date: [c1925]

Creators: Vanderwalker, F. N. (Fred Norman), 1885-1945.

GUSN: 146007

Call Number: 85M Stacks TT325.V3

The kitchen book / Terence Conran.

360 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Conran, Terence.

GUSN: 146008

Call Number: Coll. NK2117.K5 C66 1977

Interior wall decoration. By F.N. Vanderwalker.

1 p. l., 9-451 p. incl. illus., plates. front. 19 cm.

Date: [c1924]

Creators: Vanderwalker, F. N. (Fred Norman), 1885-1945.

GUSN: 146009

Call Number: 85M Stacks TT323.V3

Verses, by Herbert Wolcott Bowen.

129 p. 18 cm.

Date: 1884.

Creators: Bowen, Herbert Wolcott, 1856-1927.

GUSN: 146010

Call Number: Manuscripts Bowen Family Papers Box 8

The deterioration and conservation of porous building materials in monuments : a literature review / T. Stambolov, J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer.

86 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Stambolov, T. Asperen de Boer, J. R. J. van. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property.

GUSN: 146011

Call Number: HisPres. CC135.S78 1976

The art of John Held, Jr. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution.

28 p. : ill. ; 16 x 23 cm.

Date: 196-?]

Creators: Held, John, 1889-1958. Merkin, Richard. Hayes, Bartlett H., 1904- Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 146012

Call Number: Roth NC1429.H45 A1

A history of the Massachusetts general hospital. By N.I. Bowditch. Not published.

xi, 442 p., 1 l. front., pl., 2 port. 23 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861.

GUSN: 146013

Call Number: Stacks RA982.B7 M5 1851

Seven days a week : women and domestic service in industrializing America / David M. Katzman.

xviii, 374 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Katzman, David M.

GUSN: 146014

Call Number: Coll. HD6072.2.U5 K37

Grandma Trooley's old fashioned picture book for boys and girls.

[31] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1960.

GUSN: 146015

Call Number: Roth AC5.L6 vol.12

Homes of our forefathers in Boston, Old England, and Boston, New England. From original drawings by Edwin Whitefield.

84 p. col. front., col. pl. 26 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

GUSN: 146016

Call Number: Rare F73.37.W59

Fantasy furniture.

[12] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1966]

Creators: American Craftsmen's Council. Museum of Contemporary Crafts.

GUSN: 146017

Call Number: Roth NK2210.N5 A512

A short history of architecture, by Arthur Lyman Tuckerman; with illustrations by the author.

viii p., 1 ¾., 168 p. front., plates, plans. 21 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman, 1861-1892.

GUSN: 146018

Call Number: Stacks NA200.T75

The carpenter's companion: containing thirty-three designs for all sorts of Chinese railings and gates, engraved on sixteen plates.

[17] leaves. plates. 21 cm.

Date: [1773?]

Creators: Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835. Morris, J. H.

GUSN: 146019

Call Number: Rare NA8390.C36 1773

The deskbook of art law / by Leonard D. DuBoff.

ii, 1345 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1977]

Creators: DuBoff, Leonard D.

GUSN: 146020

Call Number: HisPres. KF4288.D8

American glass : a picture book.

15 ¾. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1949.

Creators: Davidson, Marshall B. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 146021

Call Number: Roth NK5112.M59 1949

Architectural preservation in the United States, 1941-1975 : a bibliography of Federal, State, and local government publications / Richard Tubesing.

xvii, 452 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Tubesing, Richard L.

GUSN: 146022

Call Number: Ref. Z5942.T82

Lisbeth Perrone's Folk art in needlepoint and cross-stitch.

xvi, 96 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Perrone, Lisbeth.

GUSN: 146023

Call Number: Coll. TT778.C3 P44 1978

A paradise of daintie devices. A collection of poems, songs, ballads. By various hands.

3 p. l., 9-101, [1] p. 21 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Pratt Manufacturing Company.

GUSN: 146024

Call Number: Rare PR1175.P355

Shades of history.

22 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Lee, Ruth.

GUSN: 146025

Call Number: Stacks TS2301.W5 L479

Landscapes and gardens for historic buildings : a handbook for reproducing and creating authentic landscape settings / Rudy J. Favretti and Joy Putman Favretti.

202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Favretti, Rudy J. Favretti, Joy P., joint author.

GUSN: 146026

Call Number: HisPres. SB467.F38

Examples of domestic colonial architecture in New England, comp., photographed, and pub. by James M. Corner and E.E. Soderholtz.

3 p. l., 50 pl. 36 x 30 cm.

Date: 1891.

Creators: Corner, James M. Soderholtz, E. E. (Eric Ellis)

GUSN: 146027

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA707.C75

Museum ethics : a report to the American Association of Museums / by its Committee on Ethics.

31 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: American Association of Museums. Committee on Ethics.

GUSN: 146028

Call Number: Reg. AM121.A512

The museum environment / Garry Thomson.

xiv, 270 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Thomson, Garry.

GUSN: 146029

Call Number: Reg. TH6057.M87 T46 1978

Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book : designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy.

xiii, 306 p., 24 p. : illus. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878.

GUSN: 146030

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX715.B415 1854

A critical bibliography of building conservation : historic towns, buildings, their furnishings and fittings / by John F. Smith.

xxv, 207 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Smith, John F., 1939-

GUSN: 146031

Call Number: HisPres. Z5940 S63 TH401

Civil architecture : or, A complete theoretical and practical system of building / by Edward Shaw.

208 p., 100 (i.e. 101) leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Shaw, Edward.

GUSN: 146032

Call Number: Rare NA2520.S45

Sketches and business directory of Boston and its vicinity : for 1860 and 1861.

522 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Date: c1860.

Creators: Damrell & Moore. George Coolidge (Firm)

GUSN: 146033

Call Number: Rare F73.24.S62

Successful houses and how to build them / by Charles E. White, jr. ; drawings by the author.

520 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1931, [c1912]

Creators: White, Charles Elmer, 1876-

GUSN: 146034

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.W6 1931

Contributions from the museum of history and technology : papers 59-64 on history.

v, 203 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)

GUSN: 146036

Call Number: Roth Q11.U6 no.250

Storia dell'architettura moderna.

786 p. maps, plates 22 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Zevi, Bruno, 1918-

GUSN: 146037

Call Number: Stacks NA724.9.C5

Early New England wall stencils : a workbook / by Kenneth Jewett, [stencil ill. by the author].

128 p. : ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Jewett, Kenneth.

GUSN: 146038

Call Number: Coll. TT270

The first ladies hall, Smithsonian Institution / [Text by Margaret W. Brown Klapthor]

[16] p. : ill. , 18 x 24 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Klapthor, Margaret Brown. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 146039

Call Number: Coll. GT605.S55 1965

A history of American pewter / Charles F. Montgomery.

307 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Montgomery, Charles F.

GUSN: 146040

Call Number: Coll. NK8412.M66 1978 (and 1 more)

The Grand army blue-book, containing the rules and regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic and official decisions and opinions thereon, with additional notes / by Robert B. Beath.

v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1884-

Creators: Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), b. 1839. Grand Army of the Republic.

GUSN: 146041

Call Number: Coll. E462.1.A11 1911

Cross stitch embroidery = korsstingsarbejder / designed by Gerda Bengtsson.

2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Bengtsson, Gerda.

GUSN: 146043

Call Number: Coll. TT778.C76 B44

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