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Larz and Isabel Anderson :wealth and celebrity in the Gilded Age /Stephen T. Moskey.

xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This is the story of Larz and Isabel Anderson, wealthy socialites of the Gilded Age, whose extraordinary lives spanned a century of American history-from the Civil War to World War II. Their world included dozens of celebrities who helped define modern culture...

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Daughters of the Samurai :a journey from East to West and back /Janice P. Nimura.

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to h...

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Daisy Turner's kin :an African American family saga /Jane C. Beck.

295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., "A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--'a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved'--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and cont...

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American rebels :how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution /Nina Sankovitch.

viii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; 25 cm, "Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revol...

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Restaurant republic :the rise of public dining in Boston /Kelly Erby.

xxiii, 151 pages ; 22 cm, "Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such...

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Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

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The new traditional garden :a practical guide to creating and restoring authentic American gardens for homes of all ages /Michael Weishan.

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Provides a compendium of antique plants, plans for antique gardens representing a range of styles and periods, a list of suppliers, and a directory of great historic gardens.

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Amherst College :the campus guide /an architectural tour by Blair Kamin ; photography by Ralph Lieberman ; foreword by Biddy Martin.

255 pages ; 26 cm + 1 campus guide map., "The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.

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Storied strings :the guitar in American art /Leo G. Mazow ; with additional essays by Philip J. Deloria and Jayson Kerr Dobney.

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 31 cm

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Late of the guards :tattoo designs by Ben Corday /Rich Hardy.

A century-old sketchbook of tattoo designs painted by legendary Los Angeles tattoo artist Ben Corday, presented in lush facsimile. Includes a richly illustrated essay chronicling Corday's life and career.

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Architecture constructed :notes on a discipline /Mark Jarzombek.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm, "Archi-Tect explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persist...

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The letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924, with correspondence by Mary Berenson /edited and annotated by Rollin van N. Hadley.

xxxviii, 718 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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Collecting the globe :the Salem East India Marine Society Museum /George H. Schwartz.

xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., The East India Marine Society Museum was one of the most influential collecting institutions in nineteenth-century America. From 1799 to 1867, when Salem, Massachusetts, was a premier American port and launching pad for international trade, the museum's collec...

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Forests adrift :currents shaping the future of northeastern trees /Charles D. Canham.

xii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "The northeastern United States is one of the most densely forested regions in the country, yet its history of growth, destruction, and renewal are for the most part poorly understood--even by specialists. In this engaging look at both the impermanence a...

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Family treasures :175 years of collecting art and furniture at the New England Historic Genealogical Society /Gerald W. R. Ward, foreward by D. Brenton Simons.

xv, 160 pages : illustrations, coat of arms, genealogical tables, maps ; 31 cm, "The Fine Art Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society -- America's founding genealogical institution -- tells the story of the United States. ...this important collection spans almost four centuries o...

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Boston light /Sally R. Snowman and James G. Thomson.

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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From the mountains to the sea :protecting nature in postwar New Hampshire /Kimberly A. Jarvis.

x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm., "In the face of increasing pressures from business and government in the decades following World War II, New Hampshire residents banded together to preserve their most prized natural areas and defining geological features. From the Mountains to the Sea ex...

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Connecticut River shipbuilding /Wick Griswold & Ruth Major.

207 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "Shipbuilding and shipping have always been key elements in the life of Essex. Since the seventeenth century, the men and women of lower Connecticut River Valley sustained maritime traditions that spanned the globe in splendid wooden sailing vessels. Noted his...

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Spirit of place :the making of a New England garden /Bill Noble.

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm, "Bill Noble is a lifelong gardener and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy. His own Vermont garden beautifully embodies the historical and cultural environment in which it resides. In Spirit of Place, Noble shares insights...

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The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts /by George Wingate Chase.

[6], 700 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pocket) ; 24 cm

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Maine's lithographic landscapes :town & city views, 1830-1870 /Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.

xvii, 124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 32 cm, "During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through lithographic landscapes. In Maine, these prints were the work of such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such a...

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Driving while Black :African American travel and the road to civil rights /Gretchen Sorin.

xviii, 332 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm,

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Official guide to Colonial Williamsburg /text by Michael Olmert ; with drawings of buildings by Peter C. Turner ; maps by Louis Luedtke and design by Richard Stinely.

159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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Fallingwater :Frank Lloyd Wright's romance with nature /by Lynda S. Waggoner ; foreword by Thomas M. Schmidt.

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm, Fallingwater - Wright's masterwork - is considered his sublime integration of building and nature. Deep in the lush Pennsylvania forest, Fallingwater rises as a testament to Wright's genius. Nowhere else is his architecture felt so warmly or appreciated...

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Toile de Jouy :printed textiles in the classic French style /Mélanie Riffel & Sophie Rouart ; photography by Marc Walter.

217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, "In the seventeenth century, printed and painted cottons from India first appeared in France. In reaction to the enormous commercial success of these bright Indian cottons, a French embargo was placed on the importation of foreign textiles. In 1759 thi...

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The jewelry design drawings of Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin /Elizabeth Hamilton ; with contributions by Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer and Frederic A. Sharf.

63 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm

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Plymouth at its best /photographs by Greg Derr.

59 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm

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Mystic Seaport /photographs by Steve Dunwell ; introduction and text by Lisa Brownell.

48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm

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The Bauhaus :Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago /Hans M. Wingler ; [translated by Wolfgang Jabs and Basil Gilbert ; edited by Joseph Stein].

xv, 653 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, plates, portraits ; 37 cm

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Château Higginson :social life in Boston's Back Bay, 1870-1920 /Margo Miller.

304 pages : illustrations some color ; 24 cm, ".A vivid and absorbing account of one man's efforts to construct a building that would create "a new way of life for Bostonians-and Americans-to live." Not only does Henry Lee Higginson (best known for founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and his hou...

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Historic house museums in the United States and the United Kingdom :a history /Linda Young.

xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This book addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, the author identifies a typology that casts light on what they were intended to repre...

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John F. Kennedy in New England /Raymond P. Sinibaldi.

95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Work sights :the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America /Vanessa Meikle Schulman.

xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

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New Hampshire women farmers :pioneers of the local food movement /Helen Brody ; photographs by Leslie Tuttle.

xv, 127 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 18 cm

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The center of the world :regional writing and the puzzles of place-time /June Howard.

xix, 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm, Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be ...

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The Lowells of Massachusetts :an American family /Nina Sankovitch.

xii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm, "The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scien...

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Stonlea :a timeworn, gilded age survivor transformed /Peter W. Clement, Victoria Chave Clement.

xx, 135 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "A Peabody & Stearns summer house in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. The story of a time-worn Gilded Age survivor transformed into a handsome and sustainable year round, family house."

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Reimagining historic house museums :new approaches and proven solutions /edited by Kenneth C. Turino and Max A. van Balgooy.

vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., Drawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques drawn from such wide-ranging sources as non-profit management, business strategy, and software d...

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In history's wake :the last trap fishermen of Rhode Island /Markham Starr.

xiv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

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Rescuing Eden :preserving America's historic gardens /photographs by Curtice Taylor ; text by Caroline Seebohm.

213 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina -- Rescuing Eden ...

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Floating palaces :America's queens of the sea : Maine island mariners and the big steam yachts /by William A. Haviland and Barbara L. Britton.

203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

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Pioneer houses of Martha's Vineyard :surviving colonial architecture, 1642-1742 /Jonathan F. Scott.

367 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 28 cm

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Different roots, common dreams :New Hampshire's cultural diversity /Becky Field, photographer.

xi, 116 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm, "In 2012, after hateful graffiti was scrawled on the side of refugee homes, New Hampshire photographer Becky Field decided to use her camera to show the vitality and diversity of the state's new Americans, to honor their determination and expertise, ...

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From slate to marble :gravestone carving traditions in Eastern Massachusetts,1750-1850.Volume II /James Blachowicz.

xvii, 686 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm + 1 flash drive

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Forest and crag :a history of hiking, trail blazing, and adventure in the Northeast Mountains /Laura and Guy Waterman.

xliv, 886 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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SOS brutalism.

2 volumes (535, 180 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 29 cm, SOS Brutalism" is a distress signal. Since the 1950s, eminent architects around the world have realized buildings expressing an uncompromising attitude. Predominantly, yet not exclusively, they us...

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Made in the Americas :the new world discovers Asia /Dennis Carr ; with contributions by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Timothy Brook, Mitchell Codding, Karina H. Corrigan, Donna Pierce.

159 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits ; 27 cm, "Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a maj...

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Early seating upholstery :reading the evidence /Leroy Graves.

ix, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, "Little upholstery from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has survived in America as rooms were redecorated or fabrics wore out or went out of fashion. Indeed, by the twentieth century, the upholstering processes were themselves largely lost. ...

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A window on Williamsburg /photographs by Taylor Lewis, Jr. ; text by John J. Walklet, Jr., Thomas K. Ford, and Donna C. Sheppard.

79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm, "A Window on Williamsburg" captures the character and spirit of the restored city as never before. The arctitecture so uniquely Virginian, the antiques that constitute one of the world's finest collections of eighteenth-century furnishings, the gardens ...

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A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce : The cultures of seaweed /Naomi Slipp and Maura Coughlin ; with contributions from Stacy Alaimo [and 9 others]

221 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm