Historic New England

Mill girls and strangers :single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 /Wendy M. Gordon.

x, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm, "In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract the...

Date: Ã2002.

Creators: Gordon, Wendy M., 1967-

GUSN: 359437

Call Number: Stacks HD6073.T42 G692 2002

Journal of the New England Garden History Society.

v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Creators: New England Garden History Society.

GUSN: 359442

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U65 N482

The correspondence of John Cotton Junior /edited by Sheila McIntyre & Len Travers.

656 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Date: 2009.

Creators: Cotton, John, 1640-1699. McIntyre, Sheila. Travers, Len, 1952- Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 359443

Call Number: Stacks BX7260.C792 C67 2009

The statue erected by the state of New Hampshire in honor of General John Stark ;a sketch of its inception, erection and dedication /Published under the authority of the governor and Council.

62 pages : frontispiece ; 25 cm

Creators: New Hampshire.

GUSN: 359444

Call Number: Stacks E207.S79 N5

A guide to oral history and the law /John A. Neuenschwander.

xvii, 167 pages : forms ; 25 cm., Based on author's Oral history and the law. 3rd ed. Carlisle, PA : Oral History Association, c2002., "The new edition covers legal release agreements; defamation; copyright; the Internet; Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), oral history as evidence; the duty to repo...

Date: 2009.

Creators: Neuenschwander, John A. Neuenschwander, John A. Oral history and the law.

GUSN: 359445

Call Number: Stacks KF390.O7 N48 2009

Brahmin capitalism :frontiers of wealth and populism in America's first Gilded Age /Noam Maggor.

xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money famili...

Creators: Maggor, Noam, 1977- author.

GUSN: 359482

Call Number: Stacks HB501.M2435 2017

These truths :a history of the United States /Jill Lepore.

xx, 932 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm,

Creators: Lepore, Jill, 1966- author.

GUSN: 359483

Call Number: Stacks E178.L57 2018

18 Folgate Street :the life of a house in Spitalfields /Dennis Severs.

275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: 2001.

Creators: Severs, Dennis, 1948-1999.

GUSN: 359484

Call Number: Stacks DA685.S75 S48 2001

A people's history of the new Boston /Jim Vrabel.

x, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm, Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War II. By 1950 it had lost a quarter of its tax base over the previous twenty-five years, and during the 1950s it would lose residents faster than a...

Creators: Vrabel, Jim, author.

GUSN: 359485

Call Number: Stacks F73.52.V73 2014

Barons of the sea :and their race to build the world's fastest clipper ship /Steven Ujifusa.

xiv, 427 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm, "There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamoro...

Creators: Ujifusa, Steven, author.

GUSN: 359486

Call Number: Stacks VM23.U37 2018

Tangible things :making history through objects /Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara J. Schechner, Sarah Anne Carter with photographs by Samantha S.B. van Gerbig.

xvii, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the tran...

Creators: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938- author. Gaskell, Ivan, author. Schechner, Sara, 1957- author. Carter, Sarah Anne, author.

GUSN: 359487

Call Number: Coll GN406.U57 2015

The new Bostonians :how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s /Marilynn S. Johnson.

xii, 291 pages ; 23 cm, In The New Bostonians, Marilynn S. Johnson examines the historical confluence of recent immigration and urban transformation in greater Boston, a region that underwent dramatic decline after World War II. Since the 1980s, the Boston area has experienced an astounding renaissa...

Creators: Johnson, Marilynn S.

GUSN: 359488

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.A1 J64 2015

An American palace :Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House /David Bagnall ; with an introduction by Richard H. Driehaus.

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Bagnall, David. Driehaus, Richard H. Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

GUSN: 359489

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.C45 B34 2011

Edwin Lutyens :country houses : from the archives of Country life /Gavin Stamp.

192 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson th...

Date: 2001.

Creators: Stamp, Gavin.

GUSN: 359490

Call Number: Stacks NA997.L8 S73 2001

Great houses of London /James Stourton ; photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg.

328 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm, The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. From the romantic 17th century Ashburn...

Date: 2012.

Creators: Stourton, James. Von der Schulenburg, Fritz.

GUSN: 359491

Call Number: Stacks NA7512.4.L6 S86 2012

The White House :the history of an American idea /William Seale.

xiv, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, For two centuries the White House has served not only as the official residence of the president of the United States, but as the symbolic home of its owners, the American people. The White House: The History of an American Idea celebrates the man...

Creators: Seale, William, author. White House Historical Association.

GUSN: 359492

Call Number: Stacks F204.W5 S44 1992

Technology in the country house /Marilyn Palmer and Ian West.

ix, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Palmer, Marilyn, 1943- author. West, Ian (Writer on building), author.

GUSN: 359493

Call Number: Coll TX298.P35 2016

The National Trust book of great houses of Britain /Nigel Nicolson.

287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1978.

Creators: Nicolson, Nigel. National Trust (Great Britain)

GUSN: 359506

Call Number: Stacks NA7620.N5 1969

Through an uncommon lens :the life and photography of F. Holland Day /Patricia J. Fanning.

xxiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm, "Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Ka...

Creators: Fanning, Patricia J., author.

GUSN: 359507

Call Number: Stacks TR140.D37 F44 2008

The national Capitol :its architecture, art and history /by George C. Hazelton, Jr. ; illustrated.

[8], 287 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm

Creators: Hazelton, George Cochrane, 1868-1921, author.

GUSN: 359508

Call Number: Rare F204.C2 H4 1897

The Train on the Beach :Forgotten Railroads that Transformed Winthrop, Orient Heights, and Revere Beach, Massachusetts /William Lieberman.

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Creators: Lieberman, William, author.

GUSN: 359509

Call Number: Stacks HE2771.M4 L54 2017

Boston history for kids :from Red Coats to Red Sox with 21 activities /Richard Panchyk ; foreword by Michael Dukakis.

ix, 129 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm, "Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War and its many contributions to art and literature, Boston has earned its reputation as a m...

Creators: Panchyk, Richard, author. Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- writer of foreword.

GUSN: 359510

Call Number: Stacks F73.33 .P36 2018

House stories :the meanings of home in a New England town /Beth Luey.

x, 182 pages ; 23 cm, "Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the country. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes rea...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 359511

Call Number: Stacks F74.F1 L83 2017

United tastes :the making of the first American cookbook /Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald.

xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm, "The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight 'Books That Shaped America.' Its recognition as 'the first American cookbook' has attracted an enthusiastic modern audience of historians, food journalists, and general re...

Creators: Stavely, Keith W. F., 1942- author. Fitzgerald, Kathleen, 1952- author.

GUSN: 359512

Call Number: Stacks TX703.S53 S73 2017

Circle around Monadnock :time travel with horses /Francelia Mason Clark with Pam Godin and Shelley Mozier.

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm, "Finding and following one of New Hampshire's oldest trails into history--on horseback . . . Francelia Clark finds and follows one of the oldest trails in New Hampshire's Monadnock region into history--on horseback. Along the way she stu...

Creators: Clark, Francelia Mason, 1938- author. Godin, Pam, author. Mozier, Shelley, author.

GUSN: 359513

Call Number: Stacks F42.C5 C55 2018

The music of early American clocks, 1730-1830 /Kate Van Winkle Keller and Gary R. Sullivan.

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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

GUSN: 359514

Call Number: Coll TS543.U6 K45 2017

H.H. Richardson :three architectural tours /Ken Bressler.

103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Creators: Bresler, Kenneth, author. Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886.

GUSN: 359515

Call Number: Stacks NA735.B7 B74 2018

Along the Valley Line :the history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad /Max R. Miller.

xv, 138 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm., The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic ...

Creators: Miller, Max R., author.

GUSN: 359516

Call Number: Stacks TF25.C65 M55 2017

Get out of my room! :a history of teen bedrooms in America /Jason Reid.

viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam...

Creators: Reid, Jason, 1974- author.

GUSN: 359517

Call Number: Stacks NK2117.T44 R45 2017

The long journeys home :the repatriations of Henry 'åOpåukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk /Nick Bellantoni.

xxix, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm., "åOpåukaha'ia (ca. 1792-1818), also known as Henry Obookiah, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879-1900), also known as Albert Afraid of Hawk, lived almost a century apart and came from different Indigenous nations--Hawaiian and Lakota. Yet the circumstances ...

Creators: Bellantoni, Nicholas F., author.

GUSN: 359518

Call Number: Stacks CC79.5.H85 B45 2018

The farmhouse book :tradition, style, and experience /David Larkin.

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Larkin, David, 1936-

GUSN: 359542

Call Number: Stacks NA8208.L37 2005

Adventures with old houses /by Richard Hampton Jenrette ; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales ; principal photography by John M. Hall.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, Jenrette describes his restoration of several historic buildings throughout the country, including Roper House (9 East Battery) in Charleston and Millford Plantation near Pinewood.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Jenrette, Richard H.

GUSN: 359543

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.J45 2000

Capes :design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new /Jane Gitlin.

218 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm., Re-introduces readers to the classic Cape Cod home, featuring more than twenty case studies of updated houses.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Gitlin, Jane.

GUSN: 359544

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.G52 2003

Maine antique digest :the Americana chronicles : 30 years of stories, sales, personalities, and scandals /edited by Lita Solis-Cohen.

448 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Solis-Cohen, Lita.

GUSN: 359545

Call Number: Coll NK1.M356 2004

Interior design and decoration.

vi, 699 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1974]

Creators: Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Elements of interior design and decoration.

GUSN: 359546

Call Number: Coll NK2110.W55 1974

Early American wall stencils in color :full-size patterns traced in New England homes and stencils from early coverlets, together with complete directions showing how anyone can use them with ease /Alice Bancroft Fjelstul and Patricia Brown Schad with Barbara Marhoefer.

137 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: 1989.

Creators: Fjelstul, Alice Bancroft. Schad, Patricia Brown. Marhoefer, Barbara.

GUSN: 359547

Call Number: Coll TT270.F44 1989

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

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