Historic New England

Manufacturing modernism :Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, the W.C. Vaughan Co. /H. Reynolds Butler.

290, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 28 x 30 cm

Creators: Reynolds Butler, H., writer of added commentary. McMahon, Peter, 1957- author of introduction, etc.

GUSN: 359548

Call Number: Coll NA737.B68 M3 2018

Forgotten voices :the hidden history of a New England meetinghouse /Carolyn Wakeman.

ix, 273 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm, Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, 'Facing the Past' uncovers a hidden past. It begins with the displacement of Indigenous people in the area before Europeans arrived, continues with disputes ove...

Creators: Wakeman, Carolyn, author.

GUSN: 359549

Call Number: Stacks F104.O36 W35 2019

Recipes for respect :African American meals and meaning /Rafia Zafar.

137 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a small tributary. Rec...

Creators: Zafar, Rafia, author.

GUSN: 359550

Call Number: Stacks E185.89.F66 Z34 2019

Restoring your historic house :the comprehensive guide for homeowners /Scott T. Hanson ; with photography by David J. Clough.

viii, 710 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm, This book does not repeat basic information that is readily available in many standard DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Rather, it shows how to adapt those DIY skills to the specialized needs of a historic house. Although there...

Creators: Hanson, Scott T., author. Clough, David J., photographer.

GUSN: 359551

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.H36 2019

Elmer Crowell :father of American bird carving, featuring masterworks from the Thomas M. Evans Jr. collection /by Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. and Chelsie W. Olney.

304 pages : color illustrations, photographs (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Creators: O'Brien, Stephen B., author. Olney, Chlesie W.

GUSN: 359552

Call Number: Coll NK4890.5 O37 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Rufus Porter's curious world :art and invention in America, 1815-1860 /edited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff.

xiii, 137 pages : color illustrations, color facsimilies ; 27 x 29 cm, "An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innova...

Creators: Sprague, Laura Fecych, 1954- editor. Wolff, Justin P., editor. Pennsylvania State University Press, Bowdoin College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359553

Call Number: Coll ND237.P8135 R84 2019

Doris Duke's Shangri La :a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art /edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm, Features Doris Duke's estate, Shangri La, and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diam...

Creators: Mellins, Thomas. Albrecht, Donald. Pope, Deborah. Komaroff, Linda, 1953- Street-Porter, Tim. Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

GUSN: 359554

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012

Riches, rivals & radicals :100 years of museums in America /Marjorie Schwarzer.

x, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, "As author Marjorie Schwarzer tells us, a look at the past century of America's museums reveals a captivating if slightly imperfect real-life masterpiece, flowing with a vibrant palette of wealth and ambition, accented by bold patches of jealousy, g...

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Schwarzer, Marjorie, 1957- American Association of Museums.

GUSN: 359555

Call Number: Coll AM11.S35 2006

Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner /edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 29 cm., Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, pa...

Creators: Karson, Robin S., editor. Brown, Jane Roy, editor. Allaback, Sarah, 1965- editor. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 359556

Call Number: Stacks SB470.M25 W37 2017

William Kent :designing Georgian Britain /edited by Susan Weber ; with contributions by Catherine Arbuthnott [and 14 others].

xiii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.

GUSN: 359557

Call Number: Coll N6797.K4 W53 2013

Elizabethan architecture :its rise and fall, 1540-1640 /Mark Girouard.

xx, 516 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm,

Creators: Girouard, Mark, 1931- author.

GUSN: 359558

Call Number: Stacks NA965.G57 2009

Houses of the National Trust :outstanding buildings of Britain /Lydia Greeves.

400 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "The National Trust is one of the world's leading conservation organisations and now cares for over 350 historic properties, including over 200 houses. This book covers both great mansions, such as Petworth House and Kedleston Hall, and less grand, but equall...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Greeves, Lydia.

GUSN: 359559

Call Number: Stacks DA660.G745 2008

Guastavino vaulting :the art of structural tile /John Ochsendorf ; photographs by Michael Freeman.

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Ochsendorf, John Allen. Freeman, Michael, 1945-

GUSN: 359560

Call Number: Stacks NA737.G79 O28 2010

The mate of the Daylight, and friends ashore /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

254 pages ; 16 cm

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author. Whitman, Sarah, book designer. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Landless farmer. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359561

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.M38 1884

Drawn from nature & on stone :the lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane /Georgia B. Barnhill, Melissa Geisler Trafton.

105 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm, An exhibition catalog accompanying the exhibition, Drawn from Nature & on Stone : The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, at the Cape Ann Museum October 7, 2017-March 4, 2018.

Creators: Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- author. Oaks, Martha, writer of foreword. Trafton, Melissa Geisler, author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865. Lithographs. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359562

Call Number: Coll ND237.L27 C36 2017

Rediscovering an American Community of Color :the photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917 /Nancy Kathryn Burns, Janette Thomas Greenwood.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 31 cm, This book presents a photographic narrative of African American and Native American migration and resettlement in the aftermath of emancipation and reconstruction. Taken between 1897 and 1917 by itinerant photographer William Bullard of Worcester, M...

Creators: Bullard, William, 1876-1918, photographer. Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, author. Greenwood, Janette Thomas, editor, author. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359563

Call Number: Stacks F74.W9 R43 2017

Musical clocks of early America, 1730-1830 :a catalogue raisonné /Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller.

389 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, The 130 remarkable clocks documented by this study represent a high poin in the careers of American craftsmen between 1730 and 1830 ... This is the true story--the story of gifted immigrants from Europe who passed clockmaking skills to others, of clever local...

Creators: Sullivan, Gary R. Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359564

Call Number: Coll TS540.7.S85 M87 2017 c.1 (and 1 more)

Country acres and cul-de-sacs :Connecticut circle magazine reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938-1952 /edited by Jay Gitlin.

xv, 301 pages ; 31 cm, "Examines how "Connecticut Circle" magazine helped shape the state of Connecticut between 1938 and 1952."--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Gitlin, Jay, editor.

GUSN: 359565

Call Number: Stacks F100.C6632 2019

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson :rediscovering the founding fathers of American architecture /Hugh Howard.

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 359566

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 H69 2006

The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America /Jennifer Van Horn.

xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm., "Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. [Van Horn] investigates these diverse artifacts--from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic d...

Creators: Van Horn, Jennifer, author. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,

GUSN: 359592

Call Number: Coll E162.V36 2017

Suspended worlds :historic theater scenery in northern New England /Christine Hadsel ; with contributions from Peter Gilbert, Richard Kerschner, Mary Jo Davis and Peter Miller ; photography by Carolyn L. Bates.

xii, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm, A glorious celebration of historic stage scenery in northern New England. Painted between 1890 and 1940, the curtains can be as luminous as a Hudson valley landscape, or as simple as a cluster of local advertisements surrounding a generic, rural, f...

Creators: Hadsel, Christine, author.

GUSN: 359593

Call Number: Coll ND2887.U6 H33 2015

The Mystic River :a natural and human history and recreation guide including Winchester, Arlington, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Chelsea, Everett, Charlestown, Cambridge & Belmont /Richard H. Beinecke.

297 pages

Date: [2013].

Creators: Beinecke, Richard H, author.

GUSN: 359919

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 B45 2013

The Naylor collection :the complete history of photography /[creative direction, Jonathan Barkan ; photography, Brian Smith and others].

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 42 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound : color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Naylor, Thurman F. Barkan, Jonathan. Smith, Brian (Photographer)

GUSN: 359995

Call Number: Stacks TR655.N39 2005

Gamble House :Building paradise in California /essays by Edward R. Bosley, Anne Mallek, Ann Scheid, and Robert Winter ; photographs by Alexander Vertikoff.

200 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "For more than a century the Gamble House has stood on a promontory overlooking the Arroyo Seco, a thin riverbed that meanders down from the San Gabriel Mountains through Pasadena, California. For much of that time the house has been open to the public. More ...

Date: 2015.

Creators: Bosley, Edward R. Mallek, Anne E. Scheid, Ann, 1940- Winter, Robert. Vertikoff, Alexander.

GUSN: 359996

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.P37 G36 2015

Global objects :toward a connected art history /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

327 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze in ancient China, architecture in ancient Rome, or oil painti...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 359997

Call Number: Coll NK1105.C67 2022

Experiencing American houses :understanding how domestic architecture works /Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

xviii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "This book encourages readers to think creatively about buildings in terms of their function and how these functions have changed over time in American history. The work presents material culture as lived experience and is designed to expand the encounter w...

Creators: Cromley, Elizabeth C., author.

GUSN: 359998

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.C755 2022

Plate

A blue transfer print pearlware plate with a scalloped edge and central scene of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth surrounded by a border design consisting of ship medallions, eagles, and scrollwork.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: Enoch Wood & Sons (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3522

Accession Number: 1936.769

Lace

Piece of white hand-embroidered hamburg lace.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 3523

Accession Number: 1925.352

Plate

A blue transfer print pearlware plate. The central design depicts the landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York, which is bordered with a floral motif.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Clews, James & Ralph (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 3524

Accession Number: 1943.281

Platter

A blue transfer print pearlware platter. The central scene depicts the landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York, which is bordered by large and small flowers.

Date: 1824

Maker: Clews, James & Ralph (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 3525

Accession Number: 1943.295

Plate

A blue transfer print pearlware plate with a central scene of the South Carolina coat of arms surrounded by an inner border of palmettes and an outer floral motif.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Mayer, Thomas (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3526

Accession Number: 1931.1742

Platter

Ovoid rectangle with scalloped edge; dark blue; Coat of Arms of Massachusetts encircled in border of palmettes in center of plate; trumpet, flower, and vine border.

Date: ca. 1829

Maker: Mayer, Thomas (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3527

Accession Number: 1929.668

Soup Plate

A blue transfer print pearlware soup plate. It has a fruit and floral pattern border surrounding a pastoral scene from Bradfield.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 3528

Accession Number: 1934.444

Teapot

A blue transfer printed pearlware footed teapot and lid. It has a circular lid with a round finial that are decorated with a floral motif. The body is decorated with a landscape of New York City Hall and a floral design.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware

GUSN: 3529

Accession Number: 1943.267.1AB

Platter

This platter is transfer printed in dark blue with a central design of the Coat of Arms of Massachusetts encircled in an inner border of palmettes and an outer border of trumpet, flower, and vines. The platter is rectangular, with pierced corners and applied rope handles.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: Mayer, Thomas (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing

GUSN: 3530

Accession Number: 1943.284

Plate

A blue transfer print pearlware plate. The central design depicts the New York Coat of Arms, which is surrounded by an inner border of palmettes and an outer border of trumpets, flowers, and vines.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Mayer, Thomas (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3531

Accession Number: 1956.87

Commemorative Plate

A blue transfer printed whiteware plate. The central design depicts a left facing portrait of Victoria. The inner border consists of a foliate and scroll design and the outer border consists of a floral and scroll design.

Date: 1887

Maker: Royal Worcester Porcelain Co., Ltd. (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, whiteware

GUSN: 3532

Accession Number: 1992.315

Commemorative plate

A blue transfer printed whiteware plate. The central design depicts the stores of Jones, McDuffee, and Stratton Company. The border consists of a floral pattern and portraits of Otis Norcross, Otis Norcross (ex-mayor), Ichabod Howland, and Jerome Jones.

Date: 1910

Maker: Wedgwood (Maker)

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), transfer printing, whiteware

GUSN: 3533

Accession Number: 1992.314

Soup Plate

Blue transfer printed whiteware soup plate with Willow pattern.

Date: 1810-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), whiteware

GUSN: 3534

Accession Number: 1932.580.1

Plate

A blue transfer printed pearlware plate. It has a scalloped and reticulated edge. The body is oval with a centrally located rectangular floral medallion, which is surrounded by a floral design.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3535

Accession Number: 1927.416

Dish

A blue transfer printed pearlware quatrefoil shaped dish. It has a central circular floral medallion, which is surrounded by an inner floral border.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3536

Accession Number: 1927.418

Dish

A blue transfer printed pearlware quatrefoil shaped dish. It has a central rectangular floral medallion, which is surrounded by an inner floral border.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3537

Accession Number: 1927.419

Plate

A blue transfer printed creamware plate. It has a scalloped and reticulated edge. The body is oval with a centrally located rectangular floral medallion, which is surrounded by a floral design.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing, tin (metal)

GUSN: 3538

Accession Number: 1927.417

Fruit Basket

Blue transfer printed pearlware fruit basket with two handles. It has an oval shape with diamond lattice pierced rim. The inside has a floral motif adorning the bottom of the basket.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3539

Accession Number: 1927.415

Strainer

A blue transfer printed pearlware strainer with holes. The center is adorned by a floral medallion surrounded by an inner floral border superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern and an outer foliate border.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3540

Accession Number: 1985.738.2

Covered Tureen

A blue transfer printed three piece tureen set which consists of a stand, tureen, and cover. Both the stand and the tureen have a central floral medallion surrounded by an inner floral border superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern and an outer foliate border. The outside of the tureen also has the...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3541

Accession Number: 1985.738.3A-C

Covered Dish

A blue transfer printed pearlware covered square dish. The lid has a centrally located scroll finial. The finial is surrounded by an inner floral border superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern. The outer border has a foliate motif. The inside of the dish has a central floral medallion also surround...

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3542

Accession Number: 1985.738.4AB

Sauceboat

Blue, transfer-printed pearlware footed sauceboat. The inside has a center floral medallion adorning the bottom and a foliate motif around the rim. The outside has a floral design superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3543

Accession Number: 1985.738.5.1

Sauceboat

A blue transfer printed pearlware footed sauceboat. The inside has a center floral medallion adorning the bottom and a foliate motif around the rim. The outside has a floral design superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3544

Accession Number: 1985.738.6.1

Nut Dish

A blue transfer printed pearlware dish shaped like a maple leaf. The inside has a floral design superimposed on a rounded diaper pattern surrounded by a foliate border.

Date: 1820-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), pearlware, transfer printing

GUSN: 3545

Accession Number: 1985.738.7

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