Historic New England

Portrait of a Boy

Cut paper portrait showing the head and shoulders of a little boy cut in profile and laid against a blue paper background. Boy has light brown hair cut close to the head. Broad ruffled, cream-colored collar, over a dark blue suit made out of fabric with a row of round "gold" buttons cut out of yello...

Date: 1835-1845

Maker: Bascom, Ruth Henshaw, 1772-1848 (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product), oil pastels, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 2606

Accession Number: 1991.823

Miner's Birdcage Feeding Dish

Miniature redware deep dish with clear lead glaze on the inside (mostly worn off), unglazed outside, thick rim, straight, ingoing sides (no foot). Bird food or water dish from a miner's birdcage.

Date: 1775-1825

Maker: John Bell Pottery (Maker)

Material: glazing (coating), lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 2607

Accession Number: 1991.825

Miner's Birdcage Feeding Dish

Small redware bird food dish with short handle at the top with hole for dipping rod; wider rough hewn bottom; unglazed outside with clear lead glaze inside, intended for use in a miner's canary cage

Date: 1775-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), lead glaze, redware

GUSN: 2608

Accession Number: 1991.826

Miniature Redware Bowl

Very small reware bowl, with a dark brown body (almost black) washed with a deep ochre-yellow glaze on the inside of the bowl with drippings to the outside; no foot, no flange, almost straight sides.

Date: 1750-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 2609

Accession Number: 1991.827

Bird Whistle

Small and stylized earthenware bird whistle with a round, flat open top with pointed beak and a long, straight whistle spout; it is covered with yellow glaze with an unglazed mouthpiece.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware, glazing (coating), lead glaze, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 2610

Accession Number: 1991.828

Small Redware Cup

Redware handled cup (tea cup) with shallow bowl on a low foot with two narrowly incised bands around bowl and ridged strap handle covered all over with a dark brown glaze.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 2611

Accession Number: 1991.829

Painting

Rectangular format, small view of brown-painted "half house," with barn and trees, fence and laundry at left; women appear at upper center window and at right doorway; gilt frame with square-head nails. Simple gilt frame.

Date: 1856

Maker: Wiggin, Alfred J. (Maker)

Material: canvas, oil paint (paint), painting (coating)

GUSN: 2612

Accession Number: 1991.830

Wall Box

Rectangular backboard with cauted crest piece with hanging hole, shaped sides which slope from crest to box, a wedge-shaped wood block nailed to backboard; retains traces of grey paint.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: nailing, pine (wood)

GUSN: 2613

Accession Number: 1991.831

Box

Rectangular box with shaped extension at one end, with sliding cover; box has beaded edge on three sides; is all grain painted in two tones of green.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2614

Accession Number: 1991.832

Box

Small rectangular form which has a domed hinged lid with lock clasp over conforming box with each plate; box surface is covered with geometrically patterned wallpapeer in overlapping diamond and stripe pattern in blue/green/peach/grey and white; the interior of lid has some paper though it is unfade...

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: wallpapers

GUSN: 2615

Accession Number: 1991.833

Electrified Ale Bottle Lamp

Narrow cylindrical body with thick base, ringed neck and rounded shoulders with thick finger hold; there is an impressed mark at shoulders (see above) fitted as a lamp.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), salt glaze, stoneware (pottery)

GUSN: 2616

Accession Number: 1991.834

Portable deskbox

Rectangular form with brass strapping, corner caps, lockplate, nameplate and corner straps; it has hinged brass handles and plates at sides as the hinged lid lifts to fitted box; has a felt-lined writing area, pencil tray and other compartments as well as a left out tray.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), felt (textile), mahogany (wood)

GUSN: 2617

Accession Number: 1991.836

Hand-Colored Steel Engraving

Rectangular format hand-colored steel engraving of five shore birds with fine detailing of feathers, legs and feet, beaks and eyes in profile; They are set on a shoreline with tall billowing clouds in the background. One is shown in flight. The scale of the landscape to the shore birds is distorte...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: Reproduction of Wilson, A. (Artist) Lawson, A. (Engraver)

Material: hand coloring, ink, paper (fiber product), steel (alloy)

GUSN: 2618

Accession Number: 1991.837

Portrait of Lyman S. Hapgood

Rectangular, vertical format, full-length portrait, in pencil and crayon, of Lyman S. Hapgood as a child, showing him in a left profile view, sitting in an old-fashioned high chair posed with the sea and a sailboat in teh background. The child wears a broad-brimmed straw hat with wide blue ribbon, a...

Date: 1879

Maker: Possibly J. F. Olsson & Co. (Maker) Possibly Orcott, K. V. (Maker)

Material: crayons (drawing material), paper (fiber product), pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 2619

Accession Number: 1991.838

Enhanced Photograph

Small format rectangular view of two men shooting Canada geese over decoys amidst rolling feilds. Delicate coloring is done in pale browns and greys.

Date: 1875-1899

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2620

Accession Number: 1991.839

Bank Box

Bentwood oval form with fitted lid constructed with two pointed laps: one pointing left, one pointing right that are painted dark green and deocrated in freehand with yellow geometric cartouches enclosing above inscription; the center of box is pressed with a coin slot for coins and the interior of ...

Date: 1826

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, maple (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2621

Accession Number: 1991.840

Carved Wooden Trinket Box

Oval bentwood form with fitted cover has a top and bottom slightly domed, top carved and incised with geometric devices while the side of the cover and box sides are carved with cross hatched squares set on corner and chip-carved triangles; the straight laps are held with basketry thongs (?) and peg...

Date: 1780-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, chip carving, incising, pine (wood)

GUSN: 2622

Accession Number: 1991.841AB

Trinket Box

A rectangular cotter-pen hinged lid on dovetail constructed box with molded foot; an arched wire loop pieces sit at front of the lid; red stained finish.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2623

Accession Number: 1991.842

Trinket Box

Small painted scenic deisgn in rectangular shape throughout; has painted interior, a hinged lid, an exterior painted in yellow enamel; bordered in black, brown and blue stripping; off-white border around engriseille landscape showing castle or fort at water's edge; a cliff exists in the foregound. ...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: borders (ornament areas), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2624

Accession Number: 1991.843

Trinket Box

Small, painted, scenic design in rectangular shape throughout; painted blue interior; hinged lid; painted in yellow enamel; bordered in black, brown and blue stripping with an off white border around en griseille; the bottom is washed in black; landscape showing light house on island with shore and ...

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: borders (ornament areas), painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2625

Accession Number: 1991.844

Letter Box

A square topless box compiled of the leather binding of two books entitled EPISTOLARIUM B. PAULI volume 6 and EPISTOLARIUM B. PAULI volume 1; it is lined with marbelized paper while the book spines are lined with gold lettering and decorative bands and devices.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: leather, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2626

Accession Number: 1991.845

Pair of Elephant Figures

Pair of small pearlware elephant figurines, mounted on base painted with yellow band; the animals are painted with black enamel with rosy-red blankets with green tassels.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: enamel paint, molding (forming), pearlware, polychrome

GUSN: 2627

Accession Number: 1991.846.1-2

Miniature Jug

A miniature redware jug of globular shape and narrow neck with strap handle on shoulder, covered with mottled brownish-green lead glaze.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: glazing (coating), lead glaze, redware

GUSN: 2628

Accession Number: 1991.849

Miniature Paint-decorated Bowl

Turned wood bowl with shallow foot and molded urn; grain painted in ochre and dotted in red to imitate birdseye maple.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), turning (shaping process), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2629

Accession Number: 1991.850

Pigeon Decoy

A stylized figure of a ZENAIDE PIGEON carved with the full round glass eyes, painted gray, black, pink and white; a stick-up decoy, it is mounted on a half-round rustic wood stand.

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2630

Accession Number: 1991.851

Boston's Blue Line /Frank Cheney.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Cheney, Frank.

GUSN: 365561

Call Number: 85M Stacks TF724.M4 C48 2003

Scollay Square /David Kruh.

128 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm, "Scollay Square is a pictorial history of the infamous Boston entertainment district that was wiped away by urban renewal in the 1960s. Now Government Center, this twenty-two-acre area was once an entertainment hub where entrepreneurs, scientists...

Creators: Kruh, David.

GUSN: 365562

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.65 .K79 2004

The Boston Red Sox :from Cy to the Kid /Mark Rucker and Bernard M. Corbett.

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2002.

Creators: Rucker, Mark. Corbett, Bernard M.

GUSN: 365563

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV875.B67 R83 2002

Italian Americans of Greater Boston :a proud tradition /William P. Marchione.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: Marchione, William P., 1942-

GUSN: 365611

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.9.I8 M365 1999

Catholic Boston /Thomas P. Lester ; foreword by Card. Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Lester, Thomas P., author.

GUSN: 365612

Call Number: 85M Stacks BT201.L535 2018

Franklin Park /Julie Arrison.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2009.

Creators: Arrison, Julie.

GUSN: 365613

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB482.M42 B637 2009

Boston Harbor /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Cann, Donald.

GUSN: 365614

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.37 .C316 2006

Boston University /Sally Ann Kydd.

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 2002.

Creators: Kydd, Sally Ann.

GUSN: 365615

Call Number: 85M Stacks LD513.K93 2002

The Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute /Saul Wisnia.

128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Wisnia, Saul.

GUSN: 365616

Call Number: 85M Stacks RC277.J5 W57 2002

Jordan Marsh :New England's Largest Store /Anthony M. Sammarco.

190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Jordan Marsh opened its first store in 1851 ... By the 1970s, it had become a regional New England icon and the largest department store chain in the nation. Author and historian Anthony Sammarco reveals the fascinating history of Boston's beloved Jordan Marsh"--b...

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, author.

GUSN: 365617

Call Number: 85M Stacks HF5465.U63 S266 2017

Boston's Fort Point District /Michael J. Tyrrell.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Tyrrell, Michael J.

GUSN: 365618

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.F67 T94 2003

Downtown Boston /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ; contemporary photographs by James Z. Kyprianos.

96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã2002.

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

GUSN: 365619

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA735.B7 S26 2002

Boston's Back Bay in the Victorian era /Anthony Mitchell Sammarco.

128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell.

GUSN: 365620

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.68.B33 S26 2003

Boston :unforgettable vintage images of an all-American city.

128 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 2000.

GUSN: 365621

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.4.B59 2000

Tree :exploring the arboreal world /commissioning editor: Victoria Clarke ; project editor: Lynne Ciccaglione ; introduction by Tony Kirkham ; timeline by Carolyn Fry ; additional texts by Giovanni Aloi, Matthew Biggs, Casey Clapp, James Compton, Tim Cooke, Anita Croy, Diane Fortenberry, Tom Furness, Carolyn Fry, Jim Gardiner, Paula McWaters, Rebecca Morrill, John Parker, Christiana Payne, James Smith, David Trigg, and Martin Walters.

352 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "This exquisite survey presents a breathtaking sequence of full-page images - from landscape paintings and botanical drawings to ancient frescos, vintage book illustrations and contemporary photographs - revealing the tree as a source of inspiration throughou...

Creators: Clarke, Victoria, editor. Ciccaglione, Lynne, editor. Kirkham, Tony, author of introduction. Fry, Carolyn (Science writer), contributor. Aloi, Giovanni, contributor. Biggs, Matthew, contributor. Clapp, Casey, contributor. Compton, James, 1953- contributor. Cooke, Tim (Editor with Phaidon Press), contributor. Croy, Anita, contributor. Fortenberry, Diane, contributor. Furness, Tom, contributor. Gardiner, James M. (James Milton), 1946- contributor. McWaters, Paula, contributor. Morrill, Rebecca, contributor. Parker, John (Arborist), contributor. Payne, Christiana, contributor. Smith, James, contributor. Trigg, David, contributor. Walters, Martin, contributor. Phaidon Press,

GUSN: 367181

Call Number: 85M N7680.T77 2024

Cincinnati art-carved furniture and interiors /Jennifer L. Howe, editor ; John Bigelow Taylor, principal photographer.

xv, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, "In the early 1850s three British expatriates - Henry Lindley Fry, his son William Henry Fry, and Benn Pitman - settled in Cincinnati and launched one of the most important manifestations of the Aesthetic movement in the United States, the Cincinna...

Date: 2003.

Creators: Howe, Jennifer. Taylor, John Bigelow.

GUSN: 367182

Call Number: Coll. NK835.O32 C553 2003

A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening. Adapted to North America :with a view to improvement of country residences. Comprising historical notices and general principles of the art, directions for laying out grounds and arranging plantations, the description and cultivation of hardy trees, decoration accompaniments of the house and grounds, the formation of pieces of artificial walter, flower gardens, etc. with remarks on rural architecture. With remarks on rural architecture /by the late A.J. Downing, Esq. ; With a supplement, containing some remarks about country places, and the best methods of making them ; Also, an account of the newer deciduous and evergreen plants, lately introduced into cultivation, both hardy and half-hardy. ; And a second supplement, bringing down to the time of the issue of this edition (1875), a brief account of the various trees and shrubs which have been introduced since the former supplement to this work was published (in 1859). By He

xvi, [1], 18-592 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1875.

Creators: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882.

GUSN: 367323

Call Number: Stacks SB471.D756

Dutch New York between East and West :the world of Margrieta van Varick /Deborah L. Krohn and Peter N. Miller, editors with Marybeth De Filippis ; Natalie Zemon Davis [and others].

xxi, 399 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm, Runner-up for the award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection, given by the Association of Art Museum Curators Winner of the 2011 Henry Allen Moe Prize, as given by the New York State Historical Association for exce...

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Varick, Margarita van, -approximately 1696. Miller, Peter N., 1964- Krohn, Deborah L. De Filippis, Marybeth. Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-2023. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture. New-York Historical Society.

GUSN: 367324

Call Number: Stacks NK512.N45 B373 2009

Wellesley College /Arlene Cohen.

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Cohen, Arlene.

GUSN: 367325

Call Number: Stacks LD7213.C64 2006

Dumbarton Oaks;a guide to the gardens,by Georgina Masson.

28 pages illustrations 23 cm

Date: 1968.

Creators: Masson, Georgina. Dumbarton Oaks.

GUSN: 367326

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U65 W363

A matter of life and death :hunting in contemporary Vermont /Marc Boglioli.

xiv, 156 pages ; 23 cm

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Boglioli, Marc, 1969-

GUSN: 367327

Call Number: Stacks GT5856.V4 B64 2009

Forgotten tales of Massachusetts /Peter F. Stevens.

157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm, When the first Pilgrims arrived on the shores of Massachusetts, they set foot in a world full of promise and new beginnings. Colonists witnessed the births of new children, governments and traditions, but even the Puritans could not wholly escape the Old World's ba...

Date: 2009.

Creators: Stevens, Peter F., 1955-

GUSN: 367328

Call Number: Stacks F64.6.S747 2009

Passamaquoddy ceremonial songs :aesthetics and survival /Ann Morrison Spinney.

xxi, 258 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Spinney, Ann Morrison, 1962-

GUSN: 367329

Call Number: Stacks E99.P27 S68 2010

West Bridgewater /James E. Benson.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Benson, James E.

GUSN: 367330

Call Number: Stacks F74.W46 B46 2009

Middleton /Shirley Paul Raynard with the Middleton Historical Society.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., Middleton was first settled in 1651. The town derives its name from its location midway between Danvers and Andover, on a road well traveled in early times. It was once known as Will's Hill, an outlying part of Salem Village. In 1692, Middleton lost ...

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Raynard, Shirley Paul. Middleton Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 367331

Call Number: Stacks F74.M63 R39 2010

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