Historic New England

Baskets of time :profiles of Maine Indian basket makers /David Shultz.

145 pages : color illustrations, color map, color portraits ; 26 cm, By the early 1990s, the art of Wabanaki basketry was considered nearly extinct. Today it is recognized as a vibrant and evolving form of Native American art. In their own words, seventeen artists and families share their wide-rangi...

Date: 2017.

Creators: Shultz, David.

GUSN: 359408

Call Number: Coll E78.M2 S348 2017

The world of credit in colonial Massachusetts :James Richards and his daybook, 1692-1711 /edited by James E. Wadsworth.

xviii, 356 pages ; 26 cm

Creators: Richards, James, 1658-1711, author. Wadsworth, James E., 1968- editor.

GUSN: 359409

Call Number: Stacks HF5680.R53 2017

The summer camp memory book :a pictorial treasury of everything, from campfires to color wars, you loved about camp /Richard J.S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman.

viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Gutman, Richard. Gutman, Kellie O.

GUSN: 359416

Call Number: Stacks GV193.G87 1983

Massachusetts :its historians and its history : an object lesson /by Charles Francis Adams.

110 pages ; 21 cm

Date: 1893.

Creators: Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915.

GUSN: 359417

Call Number: Stacks F64.A21

Webster's first Bunker-Hill oration /edited by Louise Manning Hodgkins.

v, 51 pages : portrait ; 17 cm.

Date: Ã1889.

Creators: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Hodgkins, Louise Manning, 1846-1935.

GUSN: 359418

Call Number: Stacks E241.B9 W23

Architecture in colonial Massachusetts :a conference held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, September 19 and 20.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 359419

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 1979

The private collection of William S. Reese /Christie's

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Goetzmann, William N. Bill Reese remembered. Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.,

GUSN: 359426

Call Number: Stacks Z1363.C47 2022

Thoreau's animals /Henry David Thoreau ; edited by Geoff Wisner ; illustrated by Debby Cotter Kaspari.

xxiv, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm, "From Thoreau's renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of the wild and domestic animals of Concord."--Front flap.

Creators: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author, illustrator. Kaspari, Debby Cotter, illustrator. Wisner, Geoff, editor.

GUSN: 359427

Call Number: Stacks PS3042.W56 2017

The architecture of Paul Rudolph /Timothy M. Rohan.

ix, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late modernist architecture and a generation of architects while chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based on extens...

Creators: Rohan, Timothy M., author.

GUSN: 359428

Call Number: Stacks NA737.R8 R64 2014

Making it modern :the folk art collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman /Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson ; contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Barbara Haskell, Cynthia Nadelman, and Elizabeth Stillinger.

375 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm

Creators: Hofer, Margaret K., 1965- author. Olson, Roberta J. M., author. New-York Historical Society, Albuquerque Museum, Addison Gallery of American Art,

GUSN: 359429

Call Number: Coll N5312.H64 2015

Encyclopedia of local history /Carol Kammen and Norma Prendergast.

xvi, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? What is the context behind local events and institutions? Where does one start? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consi...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Kammen, Carol, 1937- Prendergast, Norma.

GUSN: 359434

Call Number: Stacks E180.K25 2000

Wetherby's Gallery :painting, daguerreotypes, & ambrotypes of an artist /Marybeth Slonneger.

iii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Slonneger, Marybeth. State Historical Society of Iowa.

GUSN: 359435

Call Number: Stacks TR647.W4445 2006

The Mount, home of Edith Wharton :a historic structure report.

256 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Marshall, Scott. History of The Mount and report preparation. John G. Waite Associates, Architects.

GUSN: 359436

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z748 1997

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

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