Historic New England

Sortilèges de Paris.Maquette de Claude Arthaud. Photos de Brassï, et al.

30 pages illustrations 26 cm.

Date: [1952]

Creators: Cali, François.

GUSN: 364496

Call Number: Stacks DC707.C3

Le livre de Paris.Photos de Janine Niepce. Texte de Georges Charensol.

257 pages (chiefly illustrations) 28 cm

Date: [1957]

Creators: Niepce, Janine. Charensol, Georges, 1899-1995, editor.

GUSN: 364497

Call Number: Stacks DC707.N66

Ira Rakatansky :as modern as tomorrow /edited by John Caserta and Lynnette Widder ; essays by Joan Ockman and Lynnette Widder ; photographs by Thad Russell and John Caserta.

206 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans ; 22 cm.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Caserta, John. Widder, Lynnette. Ockman, Joan.

GUSN: 364701

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R253 I73 2010

Chinese in Boston, 1870-1965 /Wing-kai To and the Chinese Historical Society of New England.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2008.

Creators: To, Wing-kai. Chinese Historical Society of New England.

GUSN: 364703

Call Number: 85M Ref E184.C5 T6 2008

Rights in the digital era /edited by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt & Christopher J. Prom ; with an introduction by Peter B. Hirtle.

v, 238 pages : forms, illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Briston, Heather. Understanding copyright law. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Balancing access and privacy in manuscript collections. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Balancing access and privacy in the records of organizations. McKay, Aprille Cooke. Managing rights and permissions. Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L., editor. Prom, Christopher J., editor. Hirtle, Peter B., writer of introduction.

GUSN: 364734

Call Number: 85M Ref KF4325. R54 2015

The subversive stitch :embroidery and the making of the feminine /Rozsika Parker.

xxii, 247 pages, 66 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm, "The Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male emb...

Creators: Parker, Rozsika, author.

GUSN: 364735

Call Number: Coll. NK9206.P37 2019

Edward Hopper & Cape Ann :illuminating an American landscape /Elliot Bostwick Davis ; foreword by Oliver Barker.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 27 x 29 cm, "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper's years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts--a period and place that imbued Hopper's paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded...

Creators: Davis, Elliot Bostwick, author. Hopper, Edward, 1882-1967, artist. Barker, Oliver, writer of foreword. Whitney Museum of American Art, Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 364748

Call Number: 85M Stacks ND237.H75 A4 2023

The pocket :a hidden history of women's lives, 1660-1900 /Barbara Burman, Ariane Fennetaux.

263 pages : photographs (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 1...

Creators: Burman, Barbara, author. Fennetaux, Ariane, author. Yale University Press.

GUSN: 364761

Call Number: Coll. GT2350.B87 2019

Interpreting Christmas at museums and historic sites /Edited by Kenneth C. Turino and Max A. van Balgooy.

pages cm., "The comprehensive guide to the interpretation of Christmas at museums and historic sites. It shows how Christmas celebrations evolved along with regional differences to help create a distinct and accurate presentation for museums of different periods and locations"-- Provided by publishe...

Creators: Turino, Kenneth, editor. Balgooy, Max van, editor.

GUSN: 365544

Call Number: Stacks GT4985.I57 2024

The American frugal housewife :dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy /by Mrs. Child ...

130 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Date: 1836.

Creators: Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

GUSN: 365545

Call Number: TX147.C53 1836

The Rumford complete cook bookby Lily Haxworth Wallace.

xviii, 241 pages 20 cm

Creators: Wallace, Lily Haxworth, author. Rumford Company. Department of Home Economics.

GUSN: 365546

Call Number: Stacks TX715.W23 1918

The Naval War of 1812 :a documentary history /William S. Dudley, editor, Michael J. Crawford, associate editor ; with a foreword by John D.H. Kane, Jr.

4 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm, "During the War of 1812 the U.S. Navy came of age. In fleet actions on the lakes and single ship engagements at sea, American men of war defeated Royal Navy ships of similar force. Naval officers such as Isaac Hull, Stephen Decatur, Oliver H. Perry, David Por...

Creators: Dudley, William S., editor, writer of foreword. Crawford, Michael J., editor. Kane, John D. H., writer of foreword. Hughes, Christine F., 1949- editor. Melia, Tamara Moser, 1955- editor. Allard, Dean C., 1933-2018, writer of foreword. Brodine, Charles E., 1956- editor. Naval Historical Center (U.S.), Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.),

GUSN: 365547

Call Number: Stacks E360.N35 1985

History of Boston, from 1630 to 1856.Illustrated with one hundred and twenty engravings.

xi, [v]-vi, [xiii]-xv, 246 pages illustrations, plates 16 cm

Date: 1856.

Creators: Homans, I. Smith (Isaac Smith), 1807-1874.

GUSN: 365548

Call Number: Rare F73.3.H77 1856

History of the New England Woman's Press Association, 1885-1931 /Myra B. Lord, historian.

4 unnumbered pages, 393 pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

Creators: Lord, Myra B., 1861-1933, author. Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria), 1851-1938, writer of supplementary textual content. Graphic Press, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 365549

Call Number: Rare PN4784.W7 L6 1932

The Channay syndicate /by Edward Oppenheim.

261 pages ; 19 cm

Date: 1927.

Creators: Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips), 1866-1946.

GUSN: 365550

Call Number: Stacks PZ3.O62 Ch 1927

A Handbook of New England.

927 pages : illustrations, plans ; 19 cm.

Date: 1921.

Creators: Sargent, Porter, publisher.

GUSN: 365551

Call Number: Stacks F9.H23 1921

The golden flower, chrysanthemum :verses /by Edith M. Thomas, Richard Henry Stoddard, Alice Ward Bailey, Celia Thaxter, Kate Upson Clark, Louis Carroll, Margaret Deland, Robert Browning & Oliver Wendell Homles ; collected, arranged and embellished with original designs by F. Schuyler Mathews ; illustrated with reproductions of studies from nature in water color by James & Sidney Callowhill, Alois Lunzer and F.S.M.

[5], 2-9 [9] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: [1890]

Creators: Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938, compiler, illustrator. Callowhill, James, illustrator. Callowhill, Sidney, illustrator. Lunzer, Alois, illustrator. Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925. Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903. Bailey, Alice Ward, 1857-1922. Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. Clark, Kate Upson, 1851-1935. Carroll, Louis. Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. L. Prang & Co.,

GUSN: 365552

Call Number: Rare PN6110.F6 M2 1890

Eugène Cuvelier :photographer in the circle of Corot /[Ellen Shultz, editor].

16 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: Ã1996.

Creators: Cuvelier, Eugène, 1837-1900. Shultz, Ellen. Daniel, Malcolm R. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 365553

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR660.5.C874 1996

Boston's South End /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by James Z. Kyprianos.

96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Kyprianos, James Z.

GUSN: 365554

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.S7 S357 2005

West Roxbury /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 365555

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.W59 S26 2003

South Boston /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by Charlie Rosenberg.

95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Rosenberg, Charlie.

GUSN: 365556

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.S7 S37 2006

Roxbury /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by Charlie Rosenberg.

95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. Rosenberg, Charlie.

GUSN: 365557

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.R9 S263 2007

Jamaica Plain :then & now /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: 2003.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 365558

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.J3 S26 2003

Boston Braves /Richard A. Johnson.

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2001.

Creators: Johnson, Richard A.

GUSN: 365559

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV875.B72 J64 2001

Boston Common /Friends of the Public Garden.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Friends of the Public Garden and Common.

GUSN: 365560

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.65.B67 B67 2005

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

Chest of Drawers, or Case of Boxes

Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2787

Accession Number: 1991.1237

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape;...

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2788

Accession Number: 1991.1238AB

Chamber Pot

Pearlware child's chamber pot ; squat, irregular bulbous body on low, flared foot; flat overhanging rim and scroll handles; decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue floral decoration and blue bands to rim and foot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2789

Accession Number: 1991.1239

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.

Date: 1834-1848

Maker: Phillips, George (Maker)

Material: ironstone (pottery), throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2790

Accession Number: 1991.1240

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conf...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2791

Accession Number: 1991.1241

Chamber Pot

A Pearlware chamber pot of squat globular form with shoulder to body handle and a flat overhanging rim. It is decorated with an underglaze blue freehand decoration of a bold, stylized scrolling vine between blue ribbed bands around the sides. There is a leaf decoration to the rim and handle and it b...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), molding (forming), painting (coating), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2792

Accession Number: 1991.1242

Doll's Canopy Bed

A tall-post canopy bed with a flat rectangular canopy resting on four pencil-turned posts and pencil-turned tapering lower posts, as well as a shaped rectangular headboard. There are four rails and it is all red-stained.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2793

Accession Number: 1991.1243

Doll Mattress

Of rectangular form, white linen with hand-sewn seams and stuffed with old blankets.

Date: 1840-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), sewing (process)

GUSN: 2794

Accession Number: 1991.1244

Doll Bed Canopy and Headcloth

A canopy for a flat-top doll's bed; an off-white cotton printed with delicate floral sprigs in brown, red, green and pink. All sides are ornamented with a cotton tape border with yellow and red wool swags. The headcloth is of the same fabric and is tacked into place.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 2795

Accession Number: 1991.1245AB

Doll Blanket

Of square form, patterned with a field of a white lined grid over a medium blue grid on a butternut ground, and enclosed by a plaid border in like colors.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2796

Accession Number: 1991.1246

Mourning Picture for Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett

Of rectangular format, of a woman bent over a neoclassical sarcophogus resting on claw feet on a rusticated base, in a wooded landscape with a foreground stream. There are trees behind and on the side and over the tomb, as well as a vine of roses. She is draped in classical style- white dress and a...

Date: 1795-1812

Maker: Bartlett, Laura, 1799-1872 (Artist) Miss Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies

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

GUSN: 2797

Accession Number: 1991.1248

Folio Lithograph

Colored lithograph of oblong rectangular format. It shows a small sailing schooner flying the American flag, with six men onboard, rounding the Eastern Point Light. Beside the lighthouse there stand two men waving hats and a woman waving a handkerchief. It has a plain black frame with thinly painted...

Date: 1873

Maker: Haskell & Allen (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2798

Accession Number: 1991.1249

Watercolor

Of rectangular format, of a landscape with large trees and rolling hills. On the banks of a pond is a rectangular tomb with an urn on top, adorned with a garland of roses. A cactus plant is on the forground rocks. It is possible that the gold frame with rope molding is original. [see photo neg.#4751...

Date: 1818-1820

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2799

Accession Number: 1991.1250

Watercolor

A watercolor memorial painting, showing in the center a rectangular tomb surmounted by an urn and a wreath of roses. At left is a woman in mourning in a grey dress and scarf. To her left is a leafy tree with a bold trunk painted in oils, and two houses- one white and one yellow. At her right stands ...

Date: 1818-1825

Maker: Jarvis Newell, Mary (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2800

Accession Number: 1991.1251

Watercolor

An almost square format, still life with a fluted blue bowl sprinkled with mica. It is filled with stenciled fruit of indeterminate kinds in yellow, pink and purple shades. In an original red-painted frame and glass.

Date: Sept. 1827

Maker: Stearns, Mary Ann H. (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2801

Accession Number: 1991.1252

Sewing Box

Paint-decorated sewing box of low rectangular form, the hinged top is painted with a scenic land and seascape view, enclosed in a yellow oval border and black ground. The sides are yellow with red outline and also with long green ovals with curvilinear freehand designs in white. It has a metal inter...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Miller, J. (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2802

Accession Number: 1991.1253

Covered Basket

Covered basket, of flattened round form. Of fine, tightly woven straw with black and reddish Native American design woven into the sides and small black design on the rim on the flat fitted cover.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 2803

Accession Number: 1991.1254AB

Spice Box

Bentwood oval spice box, of Shaker style, straight cut laps attached with copper tacks and tiny nails. It is stamped in the center of the lid, and impressed in black. The maple sides are darkened with age, probably from an old stain or paint on the lid.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, copper (metal), impressing, maple (wood), pine (wood), stamping (forming), tacking

GUSN: 2804

Accession Number: 1991.1255AB

Seated Young Lady

Small rectangular format of a young woman in a low-cut figure dress, sitting on a red sofa with a draped red curtain in back of her. She hold a gold-tooled leather book in her right hand. There is a band of canary yellow with trompe l'acie detailing, making a frame. Oil on a mahogany panel.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)

GUSN: 2805

Accession Number: 1991.1256

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