Historic New England

The ropemakers of Plymouth; a history of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1949.

177 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 150303

Call Number: Stacks HD9999.C78 P48

A little commonwealth; family life in Plymouth Colony.

xvi, 201 p. illus., facsims., port. 22 cm.

Date: 1970.

Creators: Demos, John.

GUSN: 150304

Call Number: Stacks HQ557.P5 D4

A history of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; its history for 275 years, 1643-1918, in which is incorporated the vital parts of the original history of the town, published in 1836, and written by Leonard Bliss, jr. By Rev. George H. Tilton.

x, 417 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1918.

Creators: Tilton, George Henry, 1845- Bliss, Leonard, 1811-1842. The history of Rehoboth.

GUSN: 150305

Call Number: Stacks F74.R3 T58

History of the Fire Department of Newton, Mass. : containing a complete record of facts and events pertaining to the fire service from the settlement of the town to the present time / compiled by H.H. Easterbrook.

240 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1897

Creators: Easterbrook, Horace H. Newton Veteran Firemen's Association.

GUSN: 150306

Call Number: Stacks F74.N56 E37 1897

West Newton half a century ago, by Lucy Ellis Allen.

2 p. ¾., 32 p. 19 cm.

Date: c1917]

Creators: Allen, Lucy Ellis.

GUSN: 150307

Call Number: Stacks F74.W484 A4

King's handbook of Newton, Massachusetts / by M.F. Sweetser.

326 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897. Moses King Corporation.

GUSN: 150308

Call Number: Stacks F74.N56 S9

A history of the early settlement of Newton, county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639-1800. With a genealogical register of its inhabitants, prior to 1800. By Francis Jackson.

iv, 5-555, [1] p. front. (port.) fold map. 19 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Jackson, Francis, 1789-1861.

GUSN: 150309

Call Number: Stacks F74.N56 J1

Tercentenary history of Newton, 1630-1930, by Henry K. Rowe.

vii, 534 p. front., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Rowe, Henry Kalloch, 1869-1941. Newton (Mass.)

GUSN: 150310

Call Number: Stacks F74.N56 R87 c.1 (and 1 more)

Turns again home; Andover Newton Theological School and reminiscences from an unkept journal.

202 p. illus. 20 cm.

Date: [1949]

Creators: Herrick, Everett Carleton.

GUSN: 150311

Call Number: Stacks BX6495.H48 A3

Lynnfield, a heritage preserved, 1895-1976 / editor, Marcia Wilson Wiswall.

viii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Lindberg, Marcia Wiswall, 1926- Wellman, Thomas B., b. 1838 History of the town of Lynnfield, Mass., 1635-1895. Lynnfield Heritage Associates.

GUSN: 150312

Call Number: Stacks F74.L99 L93

Pilgrim Plymouth; indotype views of places of local and historic interest, from negatives by H.C. Dunham.

[1] p., 16 pl. 23 x 29 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Dunham, H. C.

GUSN: 150313

Call Number: Stacks F74.P8 D9

The early history of Smith college, 1871-1910, by L. Clark Seelye.

ix p., 1 l., 242 p. front. (port.) plates (1 double) double maps, plans. 22 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Seelye, L. Clark (Laurenus Clark), 1837-1924.

GUSN: 150314

Call Number: Stacks LD7153.S4

A hundred years of Mount Holyoke college; the evolution of an educational ideal, by Arthur C. Cole ... Published for Mount Holyoke college.

iv p., 2 ¾., 426 p. front., plates, ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1940.

Creators: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-

GUSN: 150315

Call Number: Stacks LD7093.C58

A guide to the museum of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association / by George Sheldon ; with original illustrations by Frances S., Mary E. and Louise S. Allen.

76 p. : ill., facsims., port. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1920.

Creators: Sheldon, George, 1818-1916. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.

GUSN: 150316

Call Number: Stacks F74.D4 S5 1920

Stoneham, Massachusetts, a shoe town / Landscape Research ; Stoneham Historical Commission.

104 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Zellie, Carole. Coons, Martha. Stoneham Historical Commission (Mass.) Landscape Research (Firm)

GUSN: 150317

Call Number: Stacks F74.S87 S75 1981

Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes, the sources of its charm, its advantages, achievements and possibilities, portrayed in word and picture. Text by Eugene C. Gardner, William Orr, J. Frank Drake, Charles Goodrich Whiting, Judge A. M. Copeland and others; drawings by James Hall and George Clarence Gardner; ed. by James E. Tower.

xviii, 214 p., 1 ¾., incl. front., illus. plates, ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Tower, James Eaton, 1863-1947, ed. Gardner, Eugene C., 1836-

GUSN: 150318

Call Number: Stacks F74.S8 T7

History of the West Roxbury park: how obtained. Disregard of private rights. Absolute injustice. Arbitrary laws. Right of eminent domain. 1873 to 1887 ...

103 p. 29 cm.

Date: 1887.

Creators: Sawyer, Samuel Elwell.

GUSN: 150320

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB483.B745 S2 1887

American rooms in miniature / by Mrs. James Ward Thorne.

78 p. : ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Thorne, James Ward, Mrs. Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

GUSN: 150471

Call Number: Coll. NK2135.T5 1944

The clock book : being a description of foreign and American antique clocks, and a list of their makers / by Wallace Nutting.

312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976, c1935.

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 150472

Call Number: Coll. TS542.N8 1976

Contributions from the museum of history and technology. Papers 1-11 on science and technology.

201 p.: ill.; 29 cm.

Date: 1959.

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

GUSN: 150473

Call Number: Coll. Q11.U6 no.218

Connecticut clockmakers of the eighteenth century / [by] Penrose R. Hoopes.

5 p. l., 3-178 p., 1 l. : plates. front. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Hoopes, Penrose R. (Penrose Robinson), 1892-

GUSN: 150474

Call Number: Coll. TS543.U6 H6 (and 1 more)

Time telling through the ages, by Harry C. Brearley.

294 p. front., illus., plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940. Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro.

GUSN: 150475

Call Number: Coll. TS542.B7

The clock book, by Wallace Nutting; being a description of foreign and American antique clocks, profusely illustrated.

312 p. incl. illus., plates, port., facsims.

Date: [c1924]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941.

GUSN: 150476

Call Number: Coll. TS542.N8 1924

English dolls' houses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

224p. : ill. ; 31cm.

Date: [1955]

Creators: Greene, Vivien.

GUSN: 150477

Call Number: Coll. NK4894.E5 G7

Herbs and herb gardening / Eleanour Sinclair Rohde.

206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair.

GUSN: 150478

Call Number: Stacks SB351.H5 R6 1976

Shop records of Daniel Burnap, clockmaker.

viii, 188 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Creators: Hoopes, Penrose R. (Penrose Robinson), 1892-

GUSN: 150479

Call Number: Coll. TS544.8.B8 H6

The American Vignola. Part 1. The five orders / by William R. Ware.

[104] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915.

GUSN: 150480

Call Number: Stacks NA2815.W3 1904

British and American gardens in the eighteenth century : eighteen illustrated essays on garden history / edited by Robert P. Maccubbin and Peter Martin.

188 p., [92] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Maccubbin, Robert P. Martin, Peter, 1940- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

GUSN: 150481

Call Number: Stacks SB457.54.B75

Descriptive guide book of Virginia's old gardens / [by] Garden club of Virginia, compiled by Mrs. William R. Massie [and] Mrs. Andrew H. Christian.

88, [9] p. : front., ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Massie, Susanne Williams, Mrs. Christian, Frances Archer, Mrs. Garden Club of Virginia.

GUSN: 150482

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U7 G3

A history of Simon Willard : inventor and clockmaker / John Ware Willard.

133 p. : plates ; 33 cm.

Date: 1911]

Creators: Willard, John Ware.

GUSN: 150483

Call Number: Coll. TS543.U6 W6 (and 1 more)

Mouldings of the Wren & Georgian periods : a portfolio of full size sections / by Tunstall Small [and] Christopher Woodbridge.

xv, 20 sheets : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Small, Tunstall. Woodbridge, Christopher.

GUSN: 150484

Call Number: Ovr. NA2960.S6

Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers : a historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past in England and abroad containing a list of nearly fourteen thousand makers.

xx, 518 p. : ill (1 fold) facisms. ; 29 cm.

Date: [c1956]

Creators: Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913. Baillie, G. H. (Granville Hugh), 1873-1951.

GUSN: 150485

Call Number: Coll. TS542.B8 1956

The old English master clockmakers and their clocks, 1670-1820.

xii, 182 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 26 cm.

Date: [1938]

Creators: Cescinsky, Herbert, b. 1875.

GUSN: 150486

Call Number: Coll. TS543.G7 C4

English domestic clocks [by] Herbert Cescinsky & Malcolm R. Webster; Illustrated from drawings and photographs by the authors.

353 p. illus. 31 cm.

Date: [1976, c1913]

Creators: Cescinsky, Herbert, b. 1875. Webster, Malcolm R.

GUSN: 150487

Call Number: Coll. NK7495.G7 C4 1976

Early American scientific instruments and their makers.

xii, 184 p. ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1964.

Creators: Bedini, Silvio A.

GUSN: 150488

Call Number: Coll. Q185.B4 (and 1 more)

New Hampshire clocks & clockmakers / by Charles S. Parsons.

356 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Parsons, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1904-

GUSN: 150489

Call Number: Coll. TS543.U6 P35

Catalog of meteorological instruments in the Museum of History and Technology. Prepared by W. E. Knowles Middleton.

v, 128 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Middleton, W. E. Knowles (William Edgar Knowles), 1902- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)

GUSN: 150490

Call Number: Coll. QC876.U47

Rufus Porter, Yankee wall painter / by Jean Lipman.

p. [131]-200 : ill., map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1950.

Creators: Lipman, Jean, 1909-

GUSN: 150491

Call Number: Coll. ND237.P8135 L5 (and 1 more)

Rufus Porter, Yankee pioneer / [by] Jean Lipman. Foreword by Gerard Piel. Pref. by John I. H. Baur.

ix, 202 p. : ill. (part col.), coat of arms, facsims., ports.;; 29 cm.

Date: [1968]

Creators: Lipman, Jean, 1909-

GUSN: 150492

Call Number: Coll. CT275.P6844 L56 1968 (and 1 more)

Early Vermont wall paintings; 1790-1850, by Robert L. McGrath.

xviii, 105 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: McGrath, Robert L., 1935-

GUSN: 150493

Call Number: Coll. ND2635.V5 M3 (and 1 more)

Early American wall stencils, their origin, history & use : a republication of Early American stencils on walls and furniture, Part one; including the complete text, seven color plates, and over one hundred photographs of old stencil-led walls.

[86] p. : ill., plates ; 29 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Waring, Janet, 1870-1941.

GUSN: 150494

Call Number: Coll. NK8650.W37

Furniture and silver by American master craftsmen of colonial and early federal times; rare early glass and pewter, oriental Lowestoft and English faience together with rare lithographs by Currier & Ives, sold by order of Francis P. Garvan.

282 p. 402 illus. 29 cm.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Garvan, Francis P. (Francis Patrick), 1875-1937. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

GUSN: 150495

Call Number: Coll. NK535.G36 G3 1931

A directory of antique furniture; the authentic classification of European and American designs for professionals & connoisseurs.

xxxivp., 355 p. of illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1953]

Creators: Hinckley, F. Lewis.

GUSN: 150496

Call Number: Coll. NK2260.H5

All kinds of small boxes.

68 p. illus., col. plates. 19 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Bedford, John, 1907-

GUSN: 150497

Call Number: Coll. NK9990.B6 B4 1965

Old glass paperweights / by Evangeline H. Bergstrom.

vii, 132 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Bergstrom, Evangeline H. (Evangeline Hoystadt), 1872-1958.

GUSN: 150498

Call Number: Coll. NK5440.P3 B4 1948

John Rogers' groups of statuary; a pictorial & annotated guide for the collector, by Paul & Meta Bleier.

[6], 134 (i.e. 240) p. ; ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1971]

Creators: Bleier, Paul. Bleier, Meta, joint author.

GUSN: 150499

Call Number: Coll. NB237.R77 B55

China and pottery marks / Gilman, Collamore & Co., inc.

36 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Gilman Collamore & Co.

GUSN: 150500

Call Number: Coll. NK4215.C6 1920

Collecting old English lustre, by Jeannette R. Hodgdon...

xv, 44 p. xiv pl. (incl. front.) 25 1/2 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Hodgdon, Jeannette Rector

GUSN: 150501

Call Number: Coll. NK4399.L9 H6

Pocket book of American pewter; the makers and the marks.

vii, 85 p. 14 cm.

Date: c1960.

Creators: Jacobs, Celia.

GUSN: 150502

Call Number: Coll. NK8412.J33 (and 1 more)

The standard catalogue of Anglo-American china : from 1810 to 1850 / printed and decorative ware made in England by the Staffordshire potters for the American trade...

2 p. l., vii-ix, 91 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1938]

Creators: Laidacker, Samuel H., 1904- ed.

GUSN: 150503

Call Number: Coll. NK4087.S6 L25

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