Historic New England

The Papago Indians and their basketry /text and photography by Terry DeWald.

48 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: DeWald, Terry.

GUSN: 290056

Call Number: Coll. E99.P25 D64

Basketry / by F. J. Christopher, edited by Marjorie O'Shaughnessy.

108 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1952.

Creators: Christopher, F. J. (Frederick John), 1912-

GUSN: 290057

Call Number: Coll. TS910.C74 1952

Pomo basketmaking: a supreme art for the weaver / edited by Vinson Brown.

67 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.

Date: [c1972]

Creators: Allen, Elsie.

GUSN: 290058

Call Number: Coll. E98.B3 A4

Basket patterns /written and illustrated by Marion Burr Sober.

57 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Sober, Marion Burr.

GUSN: 290059

Call Number: Coll. TS910.S63 1975

Havasupai baskets and their makers, 1930-1940 /by Barbara and Edwin McKee and Joyce Herold ; basket photos. by E. Tad Nichols.

xvii, 142 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: McKee, Barbara. McKee, Edwin D. (Edwin Dinwiddie), 1906-1984, joint author. Herold, Joyce, joint author.

GUSN: 290060

Call Number: Coll. E99.H3 M32

Indian basket weaving :how to weave Pomo, Yurok, Pima, and Navajo baskets /by Sandra Corrie Newman.

xvi, 91 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., Discusses the history, uses, materials, making and designing of baskets by many Indian tribes.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Newman, Sandra Corrie.

GUSN: 290061

Call Number: Coll. E98.B3 N48 1974

The brave escape of Edith Wharton :a biography /by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge.

184 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm., This book examines the life and career of the American author, Edith Wharton.

Date: 2010.

Creators: Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm.

GUSN: 291017

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS3545.H16 Z943 2010

The finest rooms in America :fifty influential interiors from the eighteenth century to the present /Thomas Jayne with Anne Walker.

207 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm., "The book brings together a cross section of houses and apartments representing a diverse range of American periods and styles. Starting with Mount Vernon and Monticello, the presentation continues with important extant rooms from the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries ...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Jayne, Thomas. Walker, Anne.

GUSN: 291018

Call Number: Stacks NK2002.J39 2010

Twilight at Conner Prairie :the creation, betrayal, and rescue of a museum /Berkley W. Duck III.

xiii, 220 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Duck, Berkley W., 1938-

GUSN: 291019

Call Number: Stacks F523.D83 2011

McCoy 2008 :a celebration of the Presidential button from 1840 to 2008.

221 p. : col. ill. ; 15 x 15 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Sappi Fine Paper North America.

GUSN: 291020

Call Number: Stacks E183.3.M35 2007

The Boston jazz chronicles :faces, places, and nightlife, 1937-1962 /Richard Vacca.

xvi, 335 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Vacca, Richard.

GUSN: 291021

Call Number: Stacks ML3508.8.B67 V33 2012

Brooklyn's Plymouth Church in the Civil War era :a ministry of freedom /Frank Decker assisted by Lois Rosebrooks.

156 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "Discover the fascinating story of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn and its unique place in Civil War history"-- Provided by publisher., "The history of the Plymouth Church of Brooklyn before, during, and after the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Decker, Francis K.

GUSN: 291022

Call Number: Stacks BX7255.B8 D43 2013

Wearable prints, 1760-1860 :history, materials, and mechanics /Susan W. Greene.

xv, 568 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Greene, Susan W., 1942-

GUSN: 291023

Call Number: 85M Stacks TS1767.G74 2014

Why the turkey didn't fly /by Paul Aron.

93 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Creators: Aron, Paul, 1956- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,

GUSN: 291024

Call Number: Stacks JC346.A76 2013

Historic house museums as witnesses of national and local identities :acts of the Third Annual DEMHIST Conference, Amsterdam, 14-16 October, 2002 /Rosanna Pavoni, editor.

176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Pavoni, Rosanna, 1953- International Committee DEMHIST. Conference (3rd : 2002 : Amsterdam) International Council of Museums.

GUSN: 291025

Call Number: Stacks CC135.I58 2002

Winchester Hospital :our first century /by Ellen Knight.

167 p. : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.

Date: c2011.

Creators: Knight, Ellen.

GUSN: 291026

Call Number: Stacks F74 .W56 W56 2011

Early New England interiors :sketches in Salem, Marblehead, Portsmouth and Kittery /by Arthur Little.Historic New England reprint.

45 ill. 28 x 36 cm.

Date: 2014.

Creators: Little, Arthur, 1852-1925. Historic New England (Organization)

GUSN: 291027

Call Number: Stacks NA707.L7 2014 c.1 (and 1 more)

Pembroke :ancient trails to the 21st century, 1712-2012 /Pembroke 300th Anniversary Committee.

468 p. 24 cm.

Date: 2012.

Creators: Pembroke 300th Anniversary Committee (Pembroke, Mass.)

GUSN: 291028

Call Number: Stacks F74 .P46 P46 2012

A journey through Woodstock, 1686-2011 /Cheryl R. Wakely.

vii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 x 29 cm.

Date: c2011

Creators: Wakely, Cheryl R., 1950- Woodstock Historical Society (Woodstock, Conn.)

GUSN: 291029

Call Number: 85M Stacks F104.W9 W35 2011

Toile :the storied fabrics of Europe and America /Michele Palmer ; Lori Beth Garris, photographer.

176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.

Date: c2003.

Creators: Palmer, Michele. Garris, Lori Beth.

GUSN: 291206

Call Number: Coll. NK9500.P35 2003

Memoir of the life of Eliza S. M. Quincy.

3 p. l., [5]-267 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1861.

Creators: Quincy, Eliza Susan Morton, 1773-1850. Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884.

GUSN: 291618

Call Number: Coll. E302.6.Q7 Q74

Cape Cod Canal /Timothy T. Orwig for Historic New England.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Orwig, Timothy T., author.

GUSN: 292097

Call Number: Stacks F72 .C3 O79 2013 c.1 (and 1 more)

American genre painting in the Victorian era :Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their contemporaries. [Exhibition] April 8-May 6, 1978.

66 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 293224

Call Number: Roth/Coll. ND1451.5.H4 1978

Teacher, scholar, mentor: Dr. Harry Reiff of St. Lawrence University.

1 v. : ill., facsims., maps, port. ; 27 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Reiff, Daniel D. (Daniel Drake)

GUSN: 293341

Call Number: Stacks CT3990 .R45 R45 2013

More small Italian villas and farmhouses , by Guy Lowell.

5 p. l., xiv p., illus., 40 pl. (incl. front.) 42 cm.

Date: [c1920]

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 294239

Call Number: Ovr. NA7594.L62

Smaller Italian villas and farmhouses , by Guy Lowell, illustrated by photographs and sketches made by the author and others.

6 p. l., xii l. illus., 125 pl. (incl. front., plans) 42 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 294240

Call Number: Ovr. NA7594.L6

College Hill :a demonstration study of historic area renewal /conducted by the Providence City Plan Commission in cooperation with the Providence Preservation Society and the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.

x, 230 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 x 31 cm

Date: 1967.

Creators: Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission. Providence Preservation Society. United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

GUSN: 294241

Call Number: Stacks NA9127.P9 P7 1967

College Hill,a demonstration study of historic area renewal.Conducted in cooperation with the Providence Preservation Society and the Housing and Home Finance Agency.

ix, 213 p. illus. (part col.) plans (part col., 2 fold.) 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1959]

Creators: Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission.

GUSN: 294242

Call Number: Stacks NA9127.P9 A5 1959

Interface: Providence /Interface: Providence Design Team, Rhode Island School of Design.

155 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Rhode Island School of Design. Interface: Providence Design Team.

GUSN: 294243

Call Number: Stacks HT177.P9 R7

Needle and brush: useful and decorative.[By John Q. Reed and Eliza M. Lavin].

306 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Reed, John Q. Lavin, Eliza M., joint author.

GUSN: 294244

Call Number: Rare TT750.R32 1889

Wickford memories / by Anita W. Hinckley.

118 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Hinckley, Anita W., 1884-

GUSN: 294245

Call Number: Stacks CT275.H59944 A3

Performing anti-slavery :activist women on antebellum stages /Gay Gibson Cima.

xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm, "In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, revising the history of abolition, and illuminating an affect...

Creators: Cima, Gay Gibson, 1948- author.

GUSN: 294254

Call Number: Stacks E449.C567 2014

Traditions and recollections of Berlin /by Bailey K. Davis ; with a foreword by Faye Memolo.

157 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Davis, Bailey K.

GUSN: 294255

Call Number: Stacks F44.B47 D38 1989

The British raid on Essex :the forgotten battle of the War of 1812 /Jerry Roberts.

x, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

Creators: Roberts, Jerry, author.

GUSN: 294256

Call Number: Stacks E359.5.C7 R63 2014

Tempest-tossed :the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker /Susan Campbell.

xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Campbell, Susan, 1959- author.

GUSN: 294257

Call Number: Stacks HQ1413.H65 C36 2014

American holiday postcards, 1905-1915 :imagery and context /Daniel Gifford.

ix, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm, "This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Gifford reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive grou...

Creators: Gifford, Daniel, 1970-

GUSN: 294258

Call Number: 85M Stacks NC1878.7.U6 G54 2013

The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson :volume 1: 1740-1766 /John W. Tyler, editor [and] Elizabeth Dubrulle, associate editor.

xlvi, 625 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Creators: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780. Tyler, John W., 1951- Dubrulle, Elizabeth. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 294259

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v. 84

Clock Face

An iron lunette form enameled off white and hand painted in polychrome. It shows an elegant young seated shephardess in a pink Empire style gown in a country landscape.

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, iron (metal), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2681

Accession Number: 1991.906

Clock Face

Iron lunette form enameled in off white and hand-painted in polychrome. It shows an English country landscape with three buildings, trees, river with a bridge, and people and cows.

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: enameling, iron (metal), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2682

Accession Number: 1991.907

Clock Face

Painted clock face with Roman and Arabic numerals. It has a floral motif in the corners and a seascape with ships, at full sail, at the top in a half circle. Also at the top is a lighthouse and a man with a spy glass on the left, on a grassy knoll. The face is a creamy white with black numerals. The...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: Edwards, Abraham, Mr., 1761-1840 (Maker)

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2683

Accession Number: 1991.908

Clock Face

Tombstone dial that is gilded and paint decorated with arabic numerals; depicts a compote of roses.

Maker: Twiss, J & R (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2684

Accession Number: 1991.909

Clock Face

A paint and gilt decorated tombstone clock dial with arabic numerals. The face is painted white with a lunette that centers a gray urn and greenery within an oval reserve of gilt beading and gilt foliate scrolls. The face with chapter ring in Arabic numerals are painted in black and conforming numer...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: Hoadley, Silas, 1786-1870 (Maker)

Material: gesso, gilding, hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2685

Accession Number: 1991.910

Clock Face

Paint and gilt decorated tombstone dial with Roman and Arabic numerals. It has green and yellow banded spandrels, a floral spray in a shaped reserve above the dial.

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: Hoadley, Silas, 1786-1870 (Maker)

Material: gilding, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2686

Accession Number: 1991.911

Clock Face

Painted black clock face on a cream background with gilded decorative scrollwork and symmetrical decoration around the numerals. It shows an eagle motif on the half circle top. The Roman numerals have a gilded scalloped edge accented by tiny raised dots. There are small dials in the center for the s...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: Hoadley, Silas, 1786-1870 (Maker)

Material: gilding, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2687

Accession Number: 1991.912

Clock Face

Paint decorated wooden tombstone clock face with Roman numerals. It has stylized red roses in a sienna reserve and rose bud spandrels.

Date: 1827

Maker: Edwards, Abraham, Mr., 1761-1840 (Maker)

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

GUSN: 2688

Accession Number: 1991.913

Clock Face

It is painted white with a hand decorated lunette and a gilt goblet with a bouquet of red flowers, over the main chapter ring with black Arabic numerals and conforming numerals at the second hand and calendar rings. It has a single red flower with green stem and "squaggles" decorates each spandrel.

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2689

Accession Number: 1991.914

Clock Face

It has a square face with black painted Roman numeral dial, with Arabic numerals at the quarter hour. It has a half circle on the top is ornamented with gilding showing a house in a landscape. There is decoration in all four corners of leaf and floral in ribbon-like triangle done in black and red pa...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2690

Accession Number: 1991.915

Clock Face

The face is painted white, with lunette decorated in gilt and grisaille with a scene of a sea battle over the dial. There are Arabic numerals in black and a second hand dial with conforming numerals. The spandrels are gilt and polychrome stylized with floral sprigs enclosed with "cable-like" gilt ge...

Date: 1815-1830

Maker: Attributed to Margeson, Gilbert Tucker, Mr. (Maker)

Material: gesso, gilding, grisaille, hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2691

Accession Number: 1991.916

Shelf Clock Dial

Of square form, painted white and decorated with gilt gesso and scrolled devices in spandrels enclosing a dial in Arabic numerals in black. A wreath of flowers in red, pink and shades of green is at the center. There are also two brass ring key holes on the face.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: Possibly Fairfield, A. (Maker)

Material: gesso, hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2692

Accession Number: 1991.917

Shelf Clock Dial

Of near square form, painted white and decorated with gilt gesso "twisted rope" triangles, enclosing pink and green floral spray in spandrels and a similarly painted floral wreath at the center. The dial is painted with black Arabic numerals.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: gesso, gilding, hardwood, painting (coating)

GUSN: 2693

Accession Number: 1991.918

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