Historic New England

Edith Wharton's Lenox /Cornelia Brooke Gilder.

222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author wit...

Creators: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke, author.

GUSN: 361311

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z649 2017

The organ in New England :an account of its use and manufacture to the end of the nineteenth century /by Barbara Owen.

xx, 629 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361312

Call Number: Stacks ML561.O95

The almighty wall :the architecture of Henry Vaughan /William Morgan.

xi, 210 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Morgan, William, 1944-

GUSN: 361313

Call Number: Stacks NA737.V38 M67 1983

The life of a musician woven into a strand of history of the New England Conservatory of Music,by Henry Morton Dunham.

235 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1931]

Creators: Dunham, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1853-1929.

GUSN: 361314

Call Number: Stacks ML416.D8

The great organ at Methuen :from its celebrated arrival in nineteenth-century Boston to the present /Barbara Owen.

xiii, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm., In the middle of the nineteenth-century, American organbuilding reached a milestone when, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, a large concert organ--really the first of its kind in the country--was opened in Boston's relatively-new Music Hall....

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361315

Call Number: Stacks ML594.M48 O94 2011

The Great estates, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930 /by the Junior League of Greenwich.

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut.

GUSN: 361316

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 G74 1986

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...

Creators: Moskey, Stephen T., 1950- author.

GUSN: 361317

Call Number: Stacks E748.A217 M67 2016

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...

Creators: Nimura, Janice P., author.

GUSN: 361318

Call Number: Stacks E184.J3 N484 2015

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...

Creators: Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.

GUSN: 361319

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T93 B43 2015

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...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361320

Call Number: Stacks F74.B6 S26 2020

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...

Creators: Erby, Kelly, author.

GUSN: 361321

Call Number: Stacks TX909.2.M32 B674 2016

Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Cann, Donald. Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 361322

Call Number: Stacks F74.R67 C36 2003

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.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Weishan, Michael.

GUSN: 361323

Call Number: Stacks SB457.53 .W45 1999

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.

Creators: Kamin, Blair, author.

GUSN: 361324

Call Number: Stacks LD153.K36 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

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

Creators: Mazow, Leo G., author. Dobney, Jayson Kerr, contributor. Deloria, Philip Joseph, contributor. Nyerges, Alexander Lee, contributor. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361358

Call Number: Coll ML1015.G9 M39 2022

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.

Date: c2023.

Creators: Hardy, Rich, 1984- author.

GUSN: 361359

Call Number: Stacks GT2345.H37 2023

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...

Creators: Jarzombek, Mark, author.

GUSN: 361360

Call Number: Stacks NA2500.J37 2023

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

Creators: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924. Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945. Hadley, Rollin van N. Israëls, Machtelt. Strehlke, Carl Brandon.

GUSN: 361428

Call Number: Stacks N7483.B47 A3 2016

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...

Creators: Schwartz, George H., author.

GUSN: 361588

Call Number: Coll F74.S1 S43 2020

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...

Creators: Canham, Charles Draper William, 1954- author.

GUSN: 361589

Call Number: Stacks SD144.A12 C35 2020 c.1

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...

Creators: Ward, Gerald W. R. Simons, D. Brenton, writer of foreword. New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 361590

Call Number: Stacks F3.N538 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

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

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Creators: Snowman, Sally R., author. Thomson, James G., 1950- author.

GUSN: 361591

Call Number: Stacks VK1025.B6 S535 2016

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...

Creators: Jarvis, Kimberly A., author.

GUSN: 361592

Call Number: Stacks QH76.5.N47 J375 2020

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...

Creators: Griswold, Wick, author. Major, Ruth, author.

GUSN: 361593

Call Number: Stacks VM24.C8 G75 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

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...

Creators: Noble, Bill, author.

GUSN: 361594

Call Number: Stacks SB453.2.V4 N63 2020

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

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

Date: 1997.

Creators: Chase, George Wingate, 1826-1867.

GUSN: 361603

Call Number: Stacks F74.H5 C4 1997

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...

Creators: Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948- author. Bowdoin College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 361604

Call Number: Stacks NE2454.S54 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

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

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

Creators: Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan, author.

GUSN: 361605

Call Number: Stacks E185.61 .S667 2020

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

Date: 1994, Ã1985.

Creators: Olmert, Michael. Turner, Peter C. Luedtke, Louis. Stinely, Richard.

GUSN: 361606

Call Number: Stacks F234.W7 O46 1994

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...

Creators: Waggoner, Lynda S., author. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. Schmidt, Thomas M., writer of foreword.

GUSN: 361607

Call Number: Stacks NA737.W7 A615 1996

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...

Date: 2003.

Creators: Riffel, Mélanie. Rouart, Sophie. Walter, Marc, 1949-

GUSN: 361608

Call Number: Coll NK9502.5.M36 R5413 2003

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

Creators: Hamilton, Elizabeth, author. Melvin, Meghan, author. Sharf, Frederic Alan, author. Stoehrer, Emily Banis, author. Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 361609

Call Number: Coll NK7398.T73 H36 2016

Plymouth at its best /photographs by Greg Derr.

59 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2007.

Creators: Derr, Greg.

GUSN: 361610

Call Number: Stacks F74.P8 D47 2007

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

48 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã1985.

Creators: Dunwell, Steve. Brownell, Lisa.

GUSN: 361611

Call Number: Stacks F104.M99 D86 1985

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

Creators: Wingler, Hans Maria, author. Stein, Joseph, 1917- editor. Gilbert, Basil, translator. Jabs, Wolfgang, translator.

GUSN: 361612

Call Number: Stacks N332.B38 W513 1969

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...

Creators: Miller, Margo, author.

GUSN: 361626

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.B33 M55 2017

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...

Creators: Young, Linda, 1953 June 16- author.

GUSN: 361627

Call Number: Stacks E159.Y685 2017

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

95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Sinibaldi, Raymond, author.

GUSN: 361628

Call Number: Stacks E842.S534 2017

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

xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981- author.

GUSN: 361629

Call Number: Stacks N72.I53 S38 2015

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

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

Creators: Brody, Helen, author.

GUSN: 361630

Call Number: Stacks HD6077.2.U62 N43 2015

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 ...

Creators: Howard, June, author.

GUSN: 361631

Call Number: Stacks PS169.R45 H59 2018

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...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361632

Call Number: Stacks F63.S27 2017

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."

Creators: Clement, Peter W., 1946- Clement, Victoria Chave, 1949-

GUSN: 361633

Call Number: Stacks NA737.P6 C59 2014

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...

Creators: Turino, Kenneth, editor. Balgooy, Max van, editor.

GUSN: 361634

Call Number: Stacks E159.R45 2019

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

xiv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Creators: Starr, Markham.

GUSN: 361635

Call Number: Stacks SH344.6.T67 S73 2015 c.1 (and 1 more)

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 ...

Creators: Seebohm, Caroline, author. Taylor, Curtice, photographer.

GUSN: 361636

Call Number: Stacks SB451.3 .S44 2015

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

Creators: Haviland, William A., author. Britton, Barbara L., author.

GUSN: 361637

Call Number: Stacks F29.D3 H39 2015

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

Creators: Scott, Jonathan Fletcher, author.

GUSN: 361638

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.M42 M378 2015

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, ...

Creators: Field, Becky (Photographer), photographer.

GUSN: 361639

Call Number: Stacks F45.A1 F54 2015

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

Creators: Blachowicz, James, 1943-

GUSN: 361640

Call Number: Stacks NB1856.B67 B532 2015

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