Historic New England

Bird Cage with Stuffed Parrot

Large molded ring with disc and two shaped hooks holds conical-shaped top on cylindrical body comprised of tube-like bars with molded circular base; interior of cage with hanging ring, tubular perch and tin door with hasp; cage holds a stuffed parrot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: soldering, taxidermy, Aves (class), tin (metal)

GUSN: 2310

Accession Number: 1991.318

Trammel with Grease Lamp

The twisted iron shaft with hook terminus is connected to a notched shaft by ring and a hinged, pierced rectangular plate. The notched shaft has loop at end which holds an open square form grease lamp hanging from a twisted shaft. A chain (missing a piece) attached to lamp's shaft.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 2311

Accession Number: 1991.319

Blanket

Of rectangular form, comprised of two panels with handsewn center seam. It has beige, off white and faded butternut yarns woven in a 1/2 inch overall check pattern with butternut horizontal and off white 'puckered' vertical bars on a beige ground. It has a rolled edge on three sides.

Date: 1820-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2312

Accession Number: 1991.320

Blanket drying arm

The long rectangular arm supported by a conforming diagonal brace is attached to a square-shaped upright element with tapering ends fitted to chamfered pintles. Painted gray-green.

Date: 1775-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2313

Accession Number: 1991.321

Painting, Tobias and the Angel

Almost square format; landscape view with river and mountains, prominent clouds, two figures and dog lower right. Beveled band around picture painted black. Simple molded wood frame, c.1920's.

Date: 1710-1730

Maker: unknown

Material: boards (flat objects), oil paint (paint)

GUSN: 2314

Accession Number: 1991.322

Overmantel-Damon Nichols House

Large overmantel painting, rectangular format. View of town framed by trees, rocks, houses, two churches on left, water with boats at right. Dark, half sky. Frame heavy black, bolection molding not original to, but contemporary with panel (NFL).

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2315

Accession Number: 1991.323

Blanket

Nearly square form comprised of two panels of off-white wool woven with linen cross bars in dark and light blue (enclosing off-white wool squares). Hand sewn center seam. A light weight blanket.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hand sewing, linen (material), machine sewing (technique), piecing, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2316

Accession Number: 1991.324

Blanket

Rectangular form comprised of two panels of navy blue and off-white wool in double check pattern in two-inch squares. Hand sewn center seam, top and bottom ends. Woven in a twill weave.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: double weave, hand sewing, weaving, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2317

Accession Number: 1991.325

Blanket

Rectangular form comprised of two panels of wool woven in a square check pattern in butternut and medium blue. Self fringe at one end. Hand sewn center seam.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: hand sewing, piecing, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2318

Accession Number: 1991.326

Blanket

Homespun woven wool blanket of rectangular size. Comprised of two panels handstitched together down the middle. Dark blue and off-white bold check pattern. Hemmed edge.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: stitching, piecing, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2319

Accession Number: 1991.327

Blanket

Rectangular form comprised of two panels of wool woven in a check pattern in dark blue, butternut and brown. Self-fringe at bottom edge.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: piecing, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2320

Accession Number: 1991.328

Blanket

Boiled wool blanket of rectangular shape, comprised of two panels finely hand stitched together. Natural off-white and dark blue 1" grid-like check pattern. Two hemmed edges. Two selvage edges.

Date: 1780-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cross-stitching, embroidering, piecing, wool (textile), weaving

GUSN: 2321

Accession Number: 1991.329

Chandelier

Gray-painted inverted pear-form with mushroom-shaped top pieced at sides with three wrought iron candle arms; each candle arm with flat circular drip pan and candle cup. Hangs from a metal cap with ring.

Date: ca. 1800

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2322

Accession Number: 1991.330

Four-drawer Chest

Rectangular top with molded edge on case with four graduated long drawers with original engraved quatrefoil brass escutcheons, backplates or tear drop pulls. The drawers surrounded with double arch moldings. All raised on molded base and ball feet with short turned legs. Grain painted in two shades...

Date: 1720-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), graining, maple (wood), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2323

Accession Number: 1991.331

Board "Williams Inn"

Board from room end or side wall painted gray with freehand designs in balck and white with scrolls; bird and owl.

Date: 1800-1833

Maker: unknown

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

GUSN: 2324

Accession Number: 1991.332

Fireboard

Rectangular format, landscape scene with trees and house.

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), paint (coating), painting (image-making)

GUSN: 2325

Accession Number: 1991.333

Peel

Button-shaped knop on long rod-like shaft that flattens above; spade-like end.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 2326

Accession Number: 1991.334

Hearth Brush

Rustic (crudely)-carved handle with mushroom-like knop. Splint broom held by string. Natural finish.

Date: 1760-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2327

Accession Number: 1991.335

Bed

Blue-painted hardwood and pine low-post bed. Baluster turned posts with round finials and slender swelled and tapering legs. Straight- back headboard with cropped arched corners. Outside rails with channeled grooves. Blue rich, but bright with turquoise cast.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: dowels, hardwood, painting (coating), pine (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 2328

Accession Number: 1991.336

Table Rug

Of nearly square form. Patterned with red and turquoise-green squares outlined in green-brown within a sawtooth border of turquoise and green-brown. Worked in wool yarns on a burlap ground. Bound in green cotton twill tape.

Date: 1890-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 2329

Accession Number: 1991.337

Tavern Table

Nearly-round overhanging top raised on straight skirt and four baluster turned splayed legs with button feet joined by rectangular box stretchers. Top painted red-brown; base painted black. Top is supported by a wide centered cleat that nearly extends across width of table.

Date: 1770-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 2330

Accession Number: 1991.338

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

The landscape architecture legacy of Dan Kiley :a guide to the National Traveling Exhibition /sponsored by The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

70 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map, plans ; 21 cm., "This exhibition and catalogue are meant to be an introduction to Kiley's life and work, not an exhaustive survey. By design, the catalogue entries, which present Kiley's projects chronologically, provides a brief history and documentat...

Creators: Cultural Landscape Foundation. Boston Architectural College, National Building Museum (U.S.),

GUSN: 367332

Call Number: Stacks SB470.K55 L36 2013

Practical landscape gardening,with reference to the improvement of rural residences, giving the general principles of the art; with full directions for planting shade trees, shrubbery and flowers, and laying out ground. By G.M. Kern.

328 pages frontispiece, plates, plans 19 cm

Date: 1855.

Creators: Kern, G. M.

GUSN: 367333

Call Number: Stacks SB471.K39

The homes of the new world :impressions of America /by Fredrika Bremer ; translated by Mary Howitt.

2 volumes ; 20 cm

Creators: Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865, author. Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, translator.

GUSN: 367334

Call Number: Stacks E166.B84 1868

John Warner Barber's views of Connecticut towns 1834-36 /edited by Christopher P. Bickford, J. Bard NcNulty.

xxix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. Bickford, Christopher P. McNulty, J. Bard (John Bard)

GUSN: 367335

Call Number: Stacks F99.B37 1990

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