Historic New England

Three centuries of American furniture / Oscar P. Fitzgerald.

xii, 323 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Fitzgerald, Oscar P.

GUSN: 149539

Call Number: 85M Ref. NK2405.F58 c.1 (and 2 more)

King's dictionary of Boston, by Edwin M. Bacon; with an historical introduction by George E. Ellis.

xvi, 7-518 p. illus. 17 cm.

Date: 1883.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916. Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894.

GUSN: 149540

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.5.B12x c.2 (and 1 more)

Nineteenth century. (Quarterly)

v. : ill. ; 22-28 cm.

Creators: Victorian Society in America.

GUSN: 149541

Call Number: Ref. N6450.N53 v.8 no.3-4

Walks and rides in the country round about Boston; covering thirty-six cities and towns, parks and public reservations, within a radius of twelve miles from the State house, by Edwin M. Bacon.

vi, 419 p. illus., 4 fold. maps. 17 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Bacon, Edwin Munroe, 1844-1916. Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston,

GUSN: 149542

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.A1 B2

Antiques and collectibles : a bibliography of works in English, 16th century to 1976 / by Linda Campbell Franklin ; with linocuts by the author.

xxiii, 1091 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Franklin, Linda Campbell.

GUSN: 149543

Call Number: Ref. Z5956.A68 F7 1978

The Boston book : containing matter relating to the second International Congregational council, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 20-28 September, 1899, including the program and list of officers and delegates; together with sketches of Boston and an account of its Congregational activities and some reference to other near-by points of Pilgrim and Puritan interest.

232 p. : ill., fold. map ; 19 cm.

Date: 1899.

Creators: International Congregational Council, (1899 : Boston).

GUSN: 149544

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.B733

Bowen's picture of Boston : or the citizens and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. To which is affixed the Annals of Boston.

5 p. ¾., [9]-304 p. : ill., plates, maps, plan ; 16 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850.

GUSN: 149545

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.44.B82 1838

Journey to Boston in 1809. Edited by Milton Halsey Thomas.

xii,97p. illus., ports. 24cm.

Date: 1955.

Creators: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821.

GUSN: 149546

Call Number: Stacks F8.B68

A complete history of the Boston fire department, including the fire-alarm service and the protective department, from 1630 to 1888. By Arthur Wellington Brayley.

xx, 729 p. incl. plates, ports., maps, facsim. front. 25 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Brayley, Arthur Wellington, 1863-

GUSN: 149547

Call Number: Stacks TH9505.B7 B8

Child toilers of Boston streets / by Emma E. Brown.

149 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: c1879.

Creators: Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth), b. 1847.

GUSN: 149548

Call Number: Rare HD6250.U4 B68 1879

Boston, city on a hill : an illustrated history / by Andrew Buni and Alan Rogers ; pictorial research by Sharlene Voogd Cochrane ; "Partners in progress" by Mary M. Whelan.

240 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Buni, Andrew. Rogers, Alan, 1936- Whelan, Mary M. Partners in progress.

GUSN: 149549

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.B96 1984

Portrait of a port: Boston, 1852-1914. W. H. Bunting, compiler and annotator.

xviii, 519 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Bunting, William Henry, 1945-

GUSN: 149550

Call Number: Ref. HE767.B7 B8

The story of the great fire : Boston, November 9-10, 1872 / by "Carleton," an eye-witness ; illustrated by Billings, from sketches taken on the spot.

32, 4, [11]-12, [10] p., 1 leaf of plates ill., map ; 20 cm.

Date: 1872.

Creators: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896.

GUSN: 149551

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.C67

Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, September 17, 1880.

172 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1880.

GUSN: 149552

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.C4

The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston : together with the acts of the Legislature relating to the city : collated and revised pusuant to an order of the City Council / by Peleg W. Chandler.

xxix, 582 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1850.

Creators: Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889. Boston, Mass. Massachusetts.

GUSN: 149553

Call Number: Stacks KFM2831.9.H6 B57

A record of the Boston stage. By William W. Clapp, Jr. ...

xiii, 479 p. 19 cm.

Date: 1853.

Creators: Clapp, William Warland, 1826-1891.

GUSN: 149554

Call Number: Stacks PN2277.B6 C5

Islands of Boston harbor, 1630-1932, "green isles of romance", compiled by Patrick J. Connelly ... introduction by Joe Mitchell Chapple.

47, [1] p. illus. (incl. map) 24 cm.

Date: 1932.

Creators: Connelly, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1876-

GUSN: 149555

Call Number: Stacks F73.63.C8

History of the great fire in Boston, November 9 and 10, 1872 / by Russell H. Conwell.

312 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843-1925.

GUSN: 149556

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.C76 1873

Old Boston days & ways : from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city / by Mary Caroline Crawford.

xv, 463 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 149557

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.C89

Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century, by Mary Caroline Crawford ... with numerous illustrations.

xix, 411 p. front., plates, ports. 21 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 149558

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.C89

Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century, by Mary Caroline Crawford.

xxi, 441 p. front., plates, ports. 21 1/2 cm.

Date: 1922.

Creators: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932.

GUSN: 149559

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.C9

Life of Campestris ulm, the oldest inhabitant of Boston Common, by Joseph Henry Curtis; with maps and illustrations.

88 p. front., plates, ports., maps. 27 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Curtis, Joseph Henry, 1841-

GUSN: 149560

Call Number: Stacks F73.65.C97

Dahl's Boston; cartoons by Francis W. Dahl, text by Charles W. Morton ...

157, [2] p. front., illus. 21 x 26 cm.

Date: 1946.

Creators: Dahl, Francis Wellington, 1907- Morton, Charles W., 1899-

GUSN: 149561

Call Number: Stacks NC1429.D14

A half century of Boston's building. The construction of buildings, the enactment of building laws and ordinances, sanitary laws, the ancient and modern building, building statistics, Boston's valuation, a chapter of Boston's big fire, fire losses, public lands account, prominent architects, contractors and builders, building materials and their source of supply, inspection of buildings, the building and plumbing associations. Written by Charles S. Damrell ...

2 p. ¾., [17]-524 p. illus. (incl. ports.) plates, fold. diagr. 29 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Damrell, Charles Stanhope.

GUSN: 149562

Call Number: Ref. F73.7.D16

Digest of the statutes and of the ordinances relating to the inspection and construction of buildings in the city of Bosston. 1889.

xxxii, 75, [1] p., 1 l. : col. plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1889.

Creators: Boston (Mass.). Dept. for Inspection of Buildings. Massachusetts. Boston (Mass.)

GUSN: 149563

Call Number: Stacks TH225.B72 A4 1889

Random notes of Boston, by Henry P. Dowst; drawings by John Albert Seaford.

4 p. ¾., 11-91, [3] p. incl. front., illus., plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Dowst, Henry Payson, 1876- Seaford, John Albert, illus.

GUSN: 149564

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.D75

Days and ways in old Boston.

144 p.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Rossiter, William S. (William Sidney), 1861-1929, ed.

GUSN: 149615

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R83

The book of Boston: the Victorian period, 1837 to 1901. With photos. by Samuel Chamberlain.

166 p. illus., facsims., map (on lining papers) ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1964]

Creators: Ross, Marjorie Drake. Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 149616

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R823

Boston : distinguished buildings & sites within the city and its orbit as engraved on wood by Rudolph Ruzicka / with a commentary by Walter Muir Whitehill.

xxiii, 117 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905- Ruzicka, Rudolph, 1883-

GUSN: 149617

Call Number: Stacks NE1112.R89 W47

A chronological history of the Boston watch and police, from 1631 to 1865; together with the Recollections of a Boston police office, or, Boston by daylight and gaslight, from the diary of an officer fifteen years in the service. By Edward H. Savage.

iv, [5]-408 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.

Date: 1865.

Creators: Savage, Edward H. (Edward Hartwell), 1812-1893.

GUSN: 149618

Call Number: Stacks HV8148.B7 S3

Boston observed.

328 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Seaburg, Carl, 1922-

GUSN: 149619

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.S44 1971

The book of Boston / by Robert Shackleton ; illustrated with photographs and with drawings by R.L. Boyer.

332 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.) ; 21 cm.

Date: 1917, c1916.

Creators: Shackleton, Robert, 1860-1923.

GUSN: 149620

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.S52 1917

A topographical and historical description of Boston, from the first settlement of the town to the present period; with some account of its environs. By Charles Shaw ...

311, [1] p. front., plates, fold. facsim. 17 cm.

Date: 1817.

Creators: Shaw, Charles, 1782-1828.

GUSN: 149621

Call Number: Rare F73.3.S53

A topographical and historical description of Boston / by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff.

lvi, 720 p., 3 leaves of plates : maps ; 27 cm.

Date: 1890.

Creators: Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, 1810-1874.

GUSN: 149622

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.S57

Souvenir of the visit of President McKinley and members of the Cabinet to Boston February, 1899.

113 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1899.

GUSN: 149623

Call Number: Stacks E735.S688 1899

Spectacles for little eyes.

viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1862, c1861.

Creators: Lander, Sarah W. (Sarah West), 1810-1872.

GUSN: 149624

Call Number: Stacks PZ6.L37 Sk

Stark's Antiqve views of ye towne of Boston. by James Henry Stark

1 p. l., 378 p. incl. illus., plates (part fold.) ports., fold. maps, facsims. fold. plates. 29 cm.

Date: [c1907]

Creators: Stark, James Henry.

GUSN: 149625

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.4.S8 1907

King's handbook of Boston harbor, by M. F. Sweetser. With over two hundred original illustrations.

x, 268, xi-xxv p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: [1882]

Creators: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897. King, Moses, 1853-1909. Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, illus.

GUSN: 149626

Call Number: Ref. HE554.B6 S84x

Tercentenary of the founding of Boston. An account of the celebration marking the three hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the site of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Compiled by direction of His Honor James M. Curley, mayor of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Committee on compilation.

xii, 392 p. incl. front., illus., ports., tab., form. 26 cm.

Date: 1931].

Creators: Herlihy, Elisabeth May, 1880- Boston (Mass.). Committee on Compilation of the Tercentenary Celebration.

GUSN: 149627

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.B53 1931

Dr. Holmes's Boston, ed. by Caroline Ticknor ...

xiv, [1], 213, [3] p. front., plates (1 double) 26 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed.

GUSN: 149628

Call Number: Stacks PS1984.T5

Boston. A brief description of the principal facts about the city. Presented by the City of Boston to the delegates to the Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industrial and Commercial Association, in session at Boston, September 24 to 28, 1912. [Written by R.J. Walsh]

78 p., 28 pl., 1 map. lea. 8vo.

Date: 1912]

Creators: Walsh, Richard J. International Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industrial Associations (V : 1912 : Boston)

GUSN: 149629

Call Number: Stacks F73.3 I58

Streetcar suburbs: the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900.

xxi, 208 p. illus., maps, tables. 25 cm.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-

GUSN: 149630

Call Number: Stacks HN80.B7 W3

Curiosities of history: Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880. By William W. Wheildon.

x, 11-141 p. ill.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Wheildon, William W. (William Wilder), 1805-1892.

GUSN: 149631

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.W57

Boston ways: high, by, and folk.

261 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Weston, George F.

GUSN: 149632

Call Number: Stacks F73.3.W5

Boston; a topographical history. Walter Muir Whitehill

xl, 244 p. illus., maps. 25 cm.

Date: 1959.

Creators: Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-

GUSN: 149633

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.W57 1959

Boston days, the city of beautiful ideals; Concord, and its famous authors; the golden age of genius; dawn of the twentieth century; first decade of twentieth century, by Lilian Whiting.

485 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: [1902]

Creators: Whiting, Lilian, 1859-

GUSN: 149634

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.W6

Little journeys in literature, by Helen M. Winslow.

xii, 444 p. ports. 20 cm.

Date: [1906, c1902]

Creators: Winslow, Helen M. (Helen Maria), 1851-1938.

GUSN: 149635

Call Number: Stacks PS121.W5

The memorial history of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880. Ed. by Justin Winsor. Issued under the business superintendence of the projector, Clarence F. Jewett.

4 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports., maps, plans, facsims. 29 cm.

Date: 1880-81.

Creators: Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, ed. Jewett, C. F. (Clarence F.)

GUSN: 149636

Call Number: 85M Ref. F73.3.W77 1880 v.1 (and 11 more)

Able men of Boston; the remarkable story of the first 100 years of the Boston Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, its men, its times, and its growth in insurance protection, in fire prevention know-how, in ever vital service and security to North American industry, 1850-1950.

253 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Yorke, Dane, 1889-

GUSN: 149637

Call Number: Stacks HG9780.B6 Y6

Boston : in a class by itself / contributing authors, Nancy Zerbey ... [et al.] ; corporate profiles by Nancy Walser ; produced in cooperation with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

446 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: 1988.

Creators: Zerbey, Nancy. Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

GUSN: 149638

Call Number: Stacks HC108.B65 B67 1988

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