Historic New England

Gordon's print price annual, 1998 /supervising editor, Jodie L. Benson.

1996 pages ; 29 cm

Date: 1998.

Creators: Gordon's Art Reference, Inc.

GUSN: 362694

Call Number: Ref NE85.G67 1998

Poole's index to periodical literature;the second supplement from Jan. 1, 1887, to Jan. 1, 1892,by William I. Fletcher ... with the cooperation of the American library association ...

xiii, 476 pages 27 cm

Date: 1963 [Ã1893]

Creators: Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917. American Library Association.

GUSN: 362695

Call Number: Ref AI3.P7 Suppl. 2 v.III

Poole's index to periodical literature;third supplement from Jan.1, 1892 to Dec.31, 1896by William Fletcher and Franklin O. Poole with the cooperation of the American Library Association.

xix, 637 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 27 cm

Creators: Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917. Poole, Franklin Osborne.

GUSN: 362696

Call Number: Ref AI3.P7 3d Suppl. v.4 1963

Poole's index to periodical literature :fourth supplement from January 1, 1897, to January 1, 1902 /by William I. Fletcher ... and Mary Poole ... with the coöperation of the American Library Association.

xiv pages, 646 pages ; 27 cm

Date: 1963.

Creators: Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917. Poole, Mary.

GUSN: 362697

Call Number: Ref AI3.P7 4th Suppl. v.5 1963

Poole's index to periodical literature :fifth supplement, from January 1, 1902, to January 1, 1907 /,by William I. Fletcher ... and Mary Poole ... with the coöperation of many librarians.

xv, 714 pages ; 27 cm

Date: 1963.

Creators: Fletcher, William Isaac, 1844-1917. Poole, Mary.

GUSN: 362702

Call Number: Ref AI3.P7 5th Suppl. v.6 1963

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

Bird Cage

Miner's brown-painted wooden canary birdcage; cube form, with chamfered corner posts and bulbous finials; iron bars and handle; all on a molded platform base; suspended bird perch inside the cage with a wood and wax yellow canary perched on it.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wrought iron (iron alloy), carving (processes), nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2763

Accession Number: 1991.1209

Bird Cage

Paint decorated wooden birdcage, of tall cube form. The top has a central medallion and a turned finial with iron wire bars radiating out and down the sides, through three horizontal wooden bars and corner stiles. The base has a pull-out front cleaning compartment, and inside are corner shelves and ...

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2764

Accession Number: 1991.1210

Sconce

No description

Date: 1790-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: stamping (forming), tin (metal), welding

GUSN: 2765

Accession Number: 1991.1211

Table Rug

Caucasian bagface carpet, now used as a chair-seat cover, of woven wool with a diamond-pattern and multi-strip border- in brown, tan, blue, deep rust and red. There are two salvage edges and two rough edges.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2766

Accession Number: 1991.1213

Miniature Chest of drawers

A miniature chest, with an overhanging rectangular top over three graduated drawers and projecting base. The chest is painted black and decorated with peach colored circles and quarter roundsat corners of drawers across the top. Constructed with wood pegs.

Date: 1825-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2767

Accession Number: 1991.1215

Candle Box

Of rectangular form with a sliding cover. The sides are carved with a 6 pointed compass device within a circle, enclosed by incised cresents and a zig-zag border. One end is incised with a heart device within a zig-zag border, the other end has a 6 pointed star within a circle and zig-zag border. Th...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), incising, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2768

Accession Number: 1991.1216AB

Nightstand

Stand with one drawer and a lower galleried shelf with a beaded edge. Square overhanging top with rounded corners over a straight skirt. Vasiform turned upper legs and slightly bulbous turned lower legs. Original red paint. The drawer has two stamped brass pulls.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: Shaker Village (Maker)

Material: birch (wood), maple (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2769

Accession Number: 1991.1217

Table Rug

Of rectangular form, patterned with a spray of polychrome flowers and leaves within an oval reserve of medium blue field and shiped border. An outer-border of four braided roses in red and black. Polychrome wool yarns hooked and clipped in raised "Waldoboro style" on a linen foundation.

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: braiding, clipping (trimming), hooking, linen (material), wool (textile)

GUSN: 2770

Accession Number: 1991.1218

Miniature Portrait of a Man

One of a pair of miniature portraits; canary yellow oval on a green background; oil on panel; portrait of Thomas Pollard; profile; seated in chair; 1/2 length.

Date: 1828

Maker: unknown

Material: panels (wood), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2771

Accession Number: 1991.1221.1

Box

Of rectangular form, with a domed hinged lid. Painted a deep orange-salmon and decorated with half circles (lunettes) in black at the edges of the lid sides, base and at the top of the box.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2772

Accession Number: 1991.1222

Ship Model

A model of a two-masted ship called a "Pinky" or Chebacco Boat, fully rigged with cloth sails and wooden masts. The hull is painted a dark green and it is mounted on a green painted stand. Schooner with 3 sails, a high sharp stern and bowsprit.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: American linden (wood), cotton (textile), painting (coating), string (fiber product)

GUSN: 2773

Accession Number: 1991.1223

Marriage Box

A rectangular cotter-pin-hinged lid with molded edges and cleats over a conforming box with a molded base raised on four turnip-shaped feet. It is painted red-brown and decorated with circles and "clock-like" deviced and birds flanking a heart under the initials "A.P." -all painted white.

Date: 1725-1730

Maker: Attributed to Lane, Samuel (Maker) Attributed to Moulton, John (Maker)

Material: maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2774

Accession Number: 1991.1224

Woodard-Winslow-Martindale Family Register

Family record with the births and deaths recorded inside a looped rose drape tied with two bowknots. There are two columns entwined with roses on either side; symbolic figurines appear at the bottom in between two tombs, and at the top where two figures tend sheep, and another- larger, off to the ri...

Date: 1837

Maker: Edson, Almira (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2775

Accession Number: 1991.1225

Fluid-Burning Lamp

Clear pressed-glass fluid-burning lamp. It has a waisted loop front with a plain dome, a baluster hexagonal stem on hollow square pedestal with a narrow cornice, concave molding at the bottom and a square plinth. It is now wired as an electric lamp with a parchment shade.

Date: 1845-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), parchment (animal material), pressing

GUSN: 2776

Accession Number: 1991.1226AB

Captain Oliver Lane House

View of a house and wharf built by Captain Oliver Lane in Annisquam, MA, in 1833. Center of the scenic picture is a large white house, with an ell and a white fence surrounding the house. In the foreground is a river with three boats and a wharf, other houses and figures of people looking out window...

Date: October 1859

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: oil paint (paint), canvas

GUSN: 2777

Accession Number: 1991.1227

Foot Warmer

No description

Date: 1700-1799

Maker: unknown

Material: incising, iron (metal), nailing, oak (wood), piercing, pine (wood), wrought

GUSN: 2778

Accession Number: 1991.1228

Portrait of Jacob Goold

Rectangular format, waist length portrait of Jacob Goold. Depicts an old man with night cap style hat and house coat. Holding a book, index finger on left hand points down. Facing left side of painting. Oil on panel.

Date: 1803

Maker: Greenleaf, Benjamin, 1769-1821 (Maker)

Material: boards (flat objects), oil painting (technique), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2779

Accession Number: 1991.1229

Candle Lantern

Tin and glass candle lantern; two large glass panels on the sides; other sides are tin with shaped windows, pierced round top and loop strap handle; painted green with tin leaf-like motifs attached to the shoulders.

Date: 1790-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), molding (forming), piercing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 2780

Accession Number: 1991.1230

Doorstop

Round and thick, emerald green pressed glass doorstop with starburst flower pattern on the top.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: coloring, glass (material), pressing

GUSN: 2781

Accession Number: 1991.1231

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

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