Historic New England

Joiner's work /by Peter Follansbee.

xiv, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It's neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors--all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and mortise-and-tenon joints. Peter F...

Creators: Follansbee, Peter, author.

GUSN: 357780

Call Number: Coll TT195.F65 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Shaker vision :seeing beauty in early America /Joseph Manca.

x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm, "The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual ...

Creators: Manca, Joseph, 1956- author.

GUSN: 357781

Call Number: Stacks BX9789.A47 M36 2019

Votes for women! :a portrait of persistence /Kate Clarke Lemay ; with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault.

xi, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, map ; 28 cm, "Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Int...

Creators: Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978- author. Goodier, Susan, author. Jones, Martha S., author. Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite), author. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution),

GUSN: 357786

Call Number: Stacks KF4895.L46 2019

Newport :the artful city /John R. Tschirch.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 25 cm, This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists ...

Creators: Tschirch, John R., author.

GUSN: 357788

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T73 2020

Rather elegant than showy :the classical furniture of Isaac Vose /Robert D. Mussey Jr., Clark Pearce.

x, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 x 25 cm, "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served ...

Creators: Mussey, Robert D., author. Pearce, Clark, author.

GUSN: 357791

Call Number: Coll NK2439.V37 M87 2018 (and 1 more)

A history of Boston in 50 artifacts /Joseph M. Bagley.

xii, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "An illustrated history of the city of Boston, as seen through fifty objects of archaeological significance, ranging from chamber pots to cowbells"--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 357793

Call Number: Stacks F73.39.B34 2016

The Saturday Evening Girls Club /Jane Healey.

242 pages ; 21 cm, For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other n...

Creators: Healey, Jane (Freelance journalist), author.

GUSN: 357795

Call Number: Stacks PS3608.E2354 S28 2017

At home :historic houses of Central and Western Massachusetts /Beth Luey.

ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "With its rich history of prominent families, Massachusetts is home to some of the most historic residences in the country. In the central and western half of the Commonwealth, these include Edith Wharton's The Mount, the Salisbury Mansion in Worcester, Herman...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 357847

Call Number: Stacks F65.L838 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

In search of Amos Clough /Robert W. Averill.

viii, 370 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm + 1 stereoscope., "The story of Amos F. Clough, a pioneering photographer of the White Mountains, has rested in obscurity for a century and a half. Born and raised before the Civil War in the rural New Hampshire town of Warren, Cl...

Creators: Averill, R. W. (Robert White), 1950- author. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Journal of events &c whilst on the mountain. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Photographs.

GUSN: 357849

Call Number: Stacks TR140.C56 A94 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

At first light :two centuries of Maine artists, their homes and studios /Anne Collins Goodyear, Frank H. Goodyear III, Michael K. Komanecky ; foreword by Stuart Kestenbaum ; photography by Walter Smalling Jr.

238 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Chronicles twenty-six ... artists of the last two hundred years who have lived and worked in Maine. Published to coincide with the state's bicentennial in 2020, the volume considers the significant contributions artists have made to a deeper and more profoun...

Creators: Goodyear, Anne Collins, author. Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- author. Komanecky, Michael, author. Kestenbaum, Stuart, writer of foreword. Smalling, Walter, photographer.

GUSN: 357851

Call Number: Stacks N6530.M2 G66 2020 c.1 (and 2 more)

Visionary New England /edited by Sarah Montross ; with contributions by Sam Adams [and seven others].

147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, New England has a rich history of spiritual, mystical, and utopian strivers. Their visionary schemes range from nineteenth-century Transcendentalist experiments in communal living at Brook Farm and Fruitlands to the Harvard Project's LSD research, led ...

Creators: Montross, Sarah J., editor. Adams, Sam, contributor. deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,

GUSN: 357853

Call Number: Stacks N515.V57 2020

Rescued from oblivion :historical cultures in the early United States /Alea Henle.

x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnes...

Creators: Henle, Alea R., author.

GUSN: 357855

Call Number: Coll E172.H45 2020

Shaker fever :America's twentieth-century fascination with a communitarian sect /William D. Moore.

xi, 430 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm., "Americans were enthralled by the Shakers in the years between 1925 and 1965. They bought Shaker furniture, saw Shaker worship services enacted on Broadway, sang Shaker songs, dressed in Shaker-inspired garb, collected Shaker artifacts, and restor...

Creators: Moore, William D., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357858

Call Number: Stacks NX504.M66 2020

How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940 /Thomas C. Hubka.

xxvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- author.

GUSN: 357861

Call Number: Stacks HD6983.H83 2020

Ancestors and descendants of Robert Alfred Sands & Kate Van Volkenburgh :enduring relations /compiled by Henry B. Hoff ; with contributions and recollections by Nancy Sands Maulsby ; edited by Penelope L. Stratton.

xv, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps (some color) ; 27 cm, "When Robert Alfred Sands married Kate Van Volkenburgh in 1890, two longtime New York families were joined. Sons of the immigrant James Sands arrived in New York in the 1690s. Lambert Van Valkenburch arrived ...

Creators: Hoff, Henry B. (Henry Bainbridge), author. Maulsby, Nancy Sands, author. Stratton, Penny, editor. New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 357864

Call Number: Stacks CS71.S22 2018

Daughters of painted ladies :America's resplendent victorians /Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen ; photographs by Douglas Keister.

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, Describes and illustrates the effects of the San Francisco-based Colorist movement on Victorian-style buildings around the United States.

Date: Ã1987.

Creators: Pomada, Elizabeth. Larsen, Michael, 1941-

GUSN: 359123

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.P65 1987

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house /by Eric Hodgins ; illustrated by William Steig.

237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "Problems of a New Yorker building a house in the suburbs." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation., An $11,000 farm house becomes a dream house costing $56,263.97.

Creators: Hodgins, Eric, 1899-1971, author. Steig, William, 1907-2003, illustrator.

GUSN: 359124

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O1714 M4

Women's views :the narrative stereograph in nineteenth-century America /Melody Davis.

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 3D viewer.

Creators: Davis, Melody D., 1959- author.

GUSN: 359125

Call Number: Stacks TR780.D38 2015

Jewels :a secret history /Victoria Finlay.

xvi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, A history of gemstones brings together the lore and legends of fabulous jewels, from ancient times to the present day, offering tales, trivia, and secrets about diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, opals, and other precious and semi-precious stones.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Finlay, Victoria.

GUSN: 359208

Call Number: Coll TS740.F56 2006

Tiara /Diana Scarisbrick.

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm, The tiara has played a glittering role in the lives of the elegant and extravagant -- from the doe-eyed Audrey Hepburn in the film classic Roman Holiday to generations of England's royal family -- representing the height of sophisticated glamour. Worn ...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Scarisbrick, Diana. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 359209

Call Number: Coll NK7423.S28 2000

Love entwined :the curious history of hairwork in America /Helen Sheumaker.

xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "In the largely forgotten craft of hairwork, practiced widely in nineteenth-century America, the hair of loved ones - living and deceased - was woven into jewelry, wall decorations, and keepsakes. Rings, bracelets, lockets, and brooches were set with metalwork ...

Date: 2007.

Creators: Sheumaker, Helen.

GUSN: 359210

Call Number: Coll NK6076.S54 2007

Bedazzled :5,000 years of jewellery : the Walters Art Museum /Sabine Albersmeier.

64 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Albersmeier, Sabine.

GUSN: 359211

Call Number: Coll NK7302.B35 W353 2005

The complete poetical works of Edna Dean Proctor.

xxvi, 411 pages frontispiece (portrait) 21 cm

Date: 1925.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923.

GUSN: 359212

Call Number: Stacks PS2665.A2 1925

Songs of America, and other poems /by Edna Dean Proctor.

viii, 123 pages ; 20 cm

Date: 1905.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923. Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359213

Call Number: Stacks PS2667.S63

The glitter & the gold :fashioning America's jewelry /Ulysses Grant Dietz [and others].

189 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm, Most of the exhibits were made in or near Newark, but are drawn frrom various public and private American collections, including the Newark Museum itself.

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Dietz, Ulysses G. (Ulysses Grant), 1955- Newark Museum.

GUSN: 359214

Call Number: Coll TS723.G55 1997

Earl Pardon's portable art :jewelry & design /with essays by Sarah Schleuning, Berry Lowden Perkins.

100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Pardon, Earl B., designer. Schleuning, Sarah, author. Perkins, Berry Lowden, author. High Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359215

Call Number: Coll NK7398.P37 A4x 2015

John Rogers :American stories /edited by Kimberly Orcutt ; contributions by Michael Clapper, Melissa Dabakis, Jessica Fracassini, Leslie Ransick Gat, David Jaffee, Michael Leja, Leo G. Mazow, Kirk Savage, Thayer Tolles, and Erin Toomey.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Date: 2010x.

Creators: Rogers, John, 1829-1904. Orcutt, Kimberly. Clapper, Michael Roy. Dabakis, Melissa. Fracassini, Jessica. Gat, Leslie Ransick. Jaffee, David. Leja, Michael, 1951- Mazow, Leo G. Savage, Kirk, 1958- Tolles, Thayer. Toomey, Erin. Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University) New-York Historical Society. Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

GUSN: 359235

Call Number: Coll NB237.R65 A4 2010x

Benjamin Franklin in terra cotta :portrait medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont /Richard Margolis.

232 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Date: 2015.

Creators: Margolis, Richard.

GUSN: 359236

Call Number: Coll NB623.N56 $b A4 2015

The paintings of Moholy-Nagy :the shape of things to come /Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng, James Merle Thomas, and Friederike Waentig.

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted thro...

Creators: Feinberg, Larry J., contributor. Kahng, Eik, 1963- contributor. Thomas, James M. (James Merle), contributor. Waentig, Friederike, contributor. Tsai, Joyce, 1977- Shape of things to come. Santa Barbara Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359237

Call Number: Coll ND522.5.M59 $b A4 2015

Heywood-Wakefield modern furniture :identification and value guide /Steve Rouland & Roger Rouland.

352 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1995.

Creators: Rouland, Steven. Rouland, Roger W.

GUSN: 359238

Call Number: Coll NK2439.H45 A4 1995 c.1 (and 1 more)

Moholy-Nagy :future present /edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P.B. Vail ; With contributions by Julie Barten, Sylvie Pénichon, and Carol Stringari, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Carol S. Eliel, Jennifer King, Olivier Lugon, Elizabeth Siegel, Karole P.B. Vail, and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

322 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, "The pioneering artist László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) worked across a range of art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, film, advertising, and theater. This publication, which offers a fresh and extensive examination of ...

Creators: Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- editor. Eliel, Carol S., 1955- editor. Vail, Karole P. B., editor. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359239

Call Number: Coll N6822.5.M63 $b A4 2016

The Bounty :the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander.

491 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm, An account of the events surrounding the conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talen...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Alexander, Caroline, 1956-

GUSN: 359240

Call Number: Coll DU20 $b.A53 2003

Beyond midnight :Paul Revere : September 2019 - October 2020 New-York Historical Society, Worcester Art Museum, Concord Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art /Jennifer L. Anderson, Lauren B. Hewes, Robert Martello, Nancy Siegel, Nan Wolverton ; ed. by Lauren B. Hewes and Nan Wolverton.

101 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Date: Ã2019.

Creators: Anderson, Jennifer L., 1966- Hewes, Lauren B. Martello, Robert, 1968- Siegel, Nancy. Wolverton, Nan. American Antiquarian Society.

GUSN: 359241

Call Number: Coll N6537.R437 $b A4 2019

Homer at the beach :a marine painter's journey, 1869-1880 /William R. Cross ; prelude by John Wilmerding.

xi, 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 x 30 cm

Creators: Cross, William R., 1959- Wilmerding, John, author. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359242

Call Number: Coll ND237.H7 A4 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Those misunderstood Puritans /Samuel Eliot Morison ; with an introduction by Francis J. Bremer.

31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1992.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 359243

Call Number: Coll F7 $b.M84 1992

Calvin in America /International Museum of the Reformation ; Texts, Gabriel de Montmollin ; with the collaboration of Jacques Légeret, Samantha Reichenbach and Hanna Woodhead ; English translation, Hanna Woodhead.

152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Creators: Montmollin, Gabriel de. Légeret, Jacques. Reichenbach, Samantha. Woodhead, Hanna. Musée international de la Réforme (Geneva, Switzerland)

GUSN: 359244

Call Number: Coll BX9415 $b.C35 2020

Majolica mania :transatlantic pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915 /Susan Weber ; with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin, and Laura Microulis, editors.

3 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm, "The first comprehensive study of one of the most significant innovations in nineteenth-century ceramics, this three-volume exhibition catalogue considers the principal designers and manufacturers of majolica, the ware's broad dissemination, and its...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor. Arbuthnott, Catherine, editor. Briggs, Jo, editor. Hughes, Eleanor, 1971- editor. Martin, Earl (Earl James), 1974- editor. Microulis, Laura, editor. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.),

GUSN: 359245

Call Number: Coll NK4320.U5 $b M35 2020

Gem identification made easy :a hands-on guide to more confident buying & selling /Antoinette L. Matlins & A.C. Bonanno.

xvii, 270 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1989.

Creators: Matlins, Antoinette Leonard. Bonanno, Antonio C.

GUSN: 359246

Call Number: Coll QE392.M33 1989

Form & function :American modernist jewelry, 1940-1970 /Marbeth Schon.

256 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, This book features the work of 96 jewellers, whose jewellery was experimental and inspired originality in successive generations. It includes work by Alexander Calder, Harry Bertoia, Arline Fisch, Albert Paley, and Peter Macchiarini.

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Schon, Marbeth.

GUSN: 359247

Call Number: Coll NK7312.S338 2008

Miller's costume jewelry /Judith Miller.

256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, A comprehensive introduction to costume jewelry, from ancient times to the present. Includes information on the designers and their inspirations, as well as showing hundreds of beautiful designs and the marks to look for.

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Miller, Judith, 1951-

GUSN: 359248

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 M555 2010

The Napier Co. idefining 20th century American costume jewelry /Melinda Lewis, with Henry Swen.

xxix, 1011 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The Napier Jewelry book is a visual encyclopedia of Napier Costume Jewelry. It tells the heretofore untold and phenomenal story of The Napier Co. inception, development, flowering, and ultimate success. It chronicles the history of its manage...

Date: 2013.

Creators: Lewis, Melinda L. Swen, Henry.

GUSN: 359249

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 L49 2013

Radical tradition :American quilts and social change /Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art.

99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts...

Creators: Applebaum, Lauren, author. Toledo Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359250

Call Number: Coll TT835 $b.A67 2020

American costume jewelry :art & industry, 1935-1950 /Roberto Brunialti & Carla Ginelli Brunialti.

2 volumes : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Brunialti, Roberto. Brunialti, Carla Ginelli.

GUSN: 359251

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 B786 2008

Village Hall, historic structure report :Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York /by Stacey A. Matson [and others].

xi, 163 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1988.

Creators: Matson, Stacey A. Cultural Resources Center (United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office). Building Conservation Branch. United States. National Park Service.

GUSN: 359272

Call Number: Coll F129.S6124 $b V55 1988

Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York /Louise M. DeCesare.

viii, 68 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Date: 1990.

Creators: DeCesare, Louise M., author. United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office. Division of Cultural Resources.

GUSN: 359273

Call Number: Coll F129.O98 $b A7 1990

Gadsby's Tavern Museum :historic furnishing plan /Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Ellen Kirven Donald.

xv, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Date: 1980.

Creators: Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. Donald, Ellen Kirven.

GUSN: 359274

Call Number: Coll F234.A3 $b S69 1980

Rapidan Camp :"the Brown House," Shenandoah National Park /by Laurel A. Racine.

2 volumes in 1 (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: [2001]

Creators: Racine, Laurel A. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359275

Call Number: Coll E802 $b.R33 2001

Historic furnishings report, Rotch-Jones-Duff House /Janice Hodson.

2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm., Greek revival style mansion in New Bedford Mass., built in 1834.

Date: 2005-[2008]

Creators: Hodson, Janice. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359276

Call Number: Coll F74.N5 $b H74 2005

Alex Katz /edited by Vincent Katz ; essay by Carter Ratcliff.

412 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, The definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development o...

Creators: Katz, Alex, 1927- artist. Ratcliff, Carter, contributor. Katz, Vincent, 1960- editor.

GUSN: 359336

Call Number: Coll ND237.K33 A85 2020

Martha's Vineyard through time :tourism and the cleansing sea /A. C. Theokas.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Creators: Theokas, Andrew C., author.

GUSN: 359337

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 $b T45 2021

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