Historic New England

Recipes for respect :African American meals and meaning /Rafia Zafar.

137 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a small tributary. Rec...

Creators: Zafar, Rafia, author.

GUSN: 359550

Call Number: Stacks E185.89.F66 Z34 2019

Restoring your historic house :the comprehensive guide for homeowners /Scott T. Hanson ; with photography by David J. Clough.

viii, 710 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm, This book does not repeat basic information that is readily available in many standard DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Rather, it shows how to adapt those DIY skills to the specialized needs of a historic house. Although there...

Creators: Hanson, Scott T., author. Clough, David J., photographer.

GUSN: 359551

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.H36 2019

Elmer Crowell :father of American bird carving, featuring masterworks from the Thomas M. Evans Jr. collection /by Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. and Chelsie W. Olney.

304 pages : color illustrations, photographs (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Creators: O'Brien, Stephen B., author. Olney, Chlesie W.

GUSN: 359552

Call Number: Coll NK4890.5 O37 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Rufus Porter's curious world :art and invention in America, 1815-1860 /edited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff.

xiii, 137 pages : color illustrations, color facsimilies ; 27 x 29 cm, "An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innova...

Creators: Sprague, Laura Fecych, 1954- editor. Wolff, Justin P., editor. Pennsylvania State University Press, Bowdoin College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359553

Call Number: Coll ND237.P8135 R84 2019

Doris Duke's Shangri La :a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art /edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm, Features Doris Duke's estate, Shangri La, and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diam...

Creators: Mellins, Thomas. Albrecht, Donald. Pope, Deborah. Komaroff, Linda, 1953- Street-Porter, Tim. Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

GUSN: 359554

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012

Riches, rivals & radicals :100 years of museums in America /Marjorie Schwarzer.

x, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, "As author Marjorie Schwarzer tells us, a look at the past century of America's museums reveals a captivating if slightly imperfect real-life masterpiece, flowing with a vibrant palette of wealth and ambition, accented by bold patches of jealousy, g...

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Schwarzer, Marjorie, 1957- American Association of Museums.

GUSN: 359555

Call Number: Coll AM11.S35 2006

Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner /edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 29 cm., Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, pa...

Creators: Karson, Robin S., editor. Brown, Jane Roy, editor. Allaback, Sarah, 1965- editor. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 359556

Call Number: Stacks SB470.M25 W37 2017

William Kent :designing Georgian Britain /edited by Susan Weber ; with contributions by Catherine Arbuthnott [and 14 others].

xiii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.

GUSN: 359557

Call Number: Coll N6797.K4 W53 2013

Elizabethan architecture :its rise and fall, 1540-1640 /Mark Girouard.

xx, 516 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm,

Creators: Girouard, Mark, 1931- author.

GUSN: 359558

Call Number: Stacks NA965.G57 2009

Houses of the National Trust :outstanding buildings of Britain /Lydia Greeves.

400 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "The National Trust is one of the world's leading conservation organisations and now cares for over 350 historic properties, including over 200 houses. This book covers both great mansions, such as Petworth House and Kedleston Hall, and less grand, but equall...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Greeves, Lydia.

GUSN: 359559

Call Number: Stacks DA660.G745 2008

Guastavino vaulting :the art of structural tile /John Ochsendorf ; photographs by Michael Freeman.

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Ochsendorf, John Allen. Freeman, Michael, 1945-

GUSN: 359560

Call Number: Stacks NA737.G79 O28 2010

The mate of the Daylight, and friends ashore /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

254 pages ; 16 cm

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author. Whitman, Sarah, book designer. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Landless farmer. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359561

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.M38 1884

Drawn from nature & on stone :the lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane /Georgia B. Barnhill, Melissa Geisler Trafton.

105 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm, An exhibition catalog accompanying the exhibition, Drawn from Nature & on Stone : The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, at the Cape Ann Museum October 7, 2017-March 4, 2018.

Creators: Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- author. Oaks, Martha, writer of foreword. Trafton, Melissa Geisler, author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865. Lithographs. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359562

Call Number: Coll ND237.L27 C36 2017

Rediscovering an American Community of Color :the photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917 /Nancy Kathryn Burns, Janette Thomas Greenwood.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 31 cm, This book presents a photographic narrative of African American and Native American migration and resettlement in the aftermath of emancipation and reconstruction. Taken between 1897 and 1917 by itinerant photographer William Bullard of Worcester, M...

Creators: Bullard, William, 1876-1918, photographer. Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, author. Greenwood, Janette Thomas, editor, author. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359563

Call Number: Stacks F74.W9 R43 2017

Musical clocks of early America, 1730-1830 :a catalogue raisonné /Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller.

389 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, The 130 remarkable clocks documented by this study represent a high poin in the careers of American craftsmen between 1730 and 1830 ... This is the true story--the story of gifted immigrants from Europe who passed clockmaking skills to others, of clever local...

Creators: Sullivan, Gary R. Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359564

Call Number: Coll TS540.7.S85 M87 2017 c.1 (and 1 more)

Country acres and cul-de-sacs :Connecticut circle magazine reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938-1952 /edited by Jay Gitlin.

xv, 301 pages ; 31 cm, "Examines how "Connecticut Circle" magazine helped shape the state of Connecticut between 1938 and 1952."--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Gitlin, Jay, editor.

GUSN: 359565

Call Number: Stacks F100.C6632 2019

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson :rediscovering the founding fathers of American architecture /Hugh Howard.

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 359566

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 H69 2006

The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America /Jennifer Van Horn.

xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm., "Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. [Van Horn] investigates these diverse artifacts--from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic d...

Creators: Van Horn, Jennifer, author. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,

GUSN: 359592

Call Number: Coll E162.V36 2017

Suspended worlds :historic theater scenery in northern New England /Christine Hadsel ; with contributions from Peter Gilbert, Richard Kerschner, Mary Jo Davis and Peter Miller ; photography by Carolyn L. Bates.

xii, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm, A glorious celebration of historic stage scenery in northern New England. Painted between 1890 and 1940, the curtains can be as luminous as a Hudson valley landscape, or as simple as a cluster of local advertisements surrounding a generic, rural, f...

Creators: Hadsel, Christine, author.

GUSN: 359593

Call Number: Coll ND2887.U6 H33 2015

The Mystic River :a natural and human history and recreation guide including Winchester, Arlington, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Chelsea, Everett, Charlestown, Cambridge & Belmont /Richard H. Beinecke.

297 pages

Date: [2013].

Creators: Beinecke, Richard H, author.

GUSN: 359919

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 B45 2013

The Naylor collection :the complete history of photography /[creative direction, Jonathan Barkan ; photography, Brian Smith and others].

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 42 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound : color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Naylor, Thurman F. Barkan, Jonathan. Smith, Brian (Photographer)

GUSN: 359995

Call Number: Stacks TR655.N39 2005

Gamble House :Building paradise in California /essays by Edward R. Bosley, Anne Mallek, Ann Scheid, and Robert Winter ; photographs by Alexander Vertikoff.

200 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "For more than a century the Gamble House has stood on a promontory overlooking the Arroyo Seco, a thin riverbed that meanders down from the San Gabriel Mountains through Pasadena, California. For much of that time the house has been open to the public. More ...

Date: 2015.

Creators: Bosley, Edward R. Mallek, Anne E. Scheid, Ann, 1940- Winter, Robert. Vertikoff, Alexander.

GUSN: 359996

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.P37 G36 2015

Global objects :toward a connected art history /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

327 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze in ancient China, architecture in ancient Rome, or oil painti...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 359997

Call Number: Coll NK1105.C67 2022

Experiencing American houses :understanding how domestic architecture works /Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

xviii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "This book encourages readers to think creatively about buildings in terms of their function and how these functions have changed over time in American history. The work presents material culture as lived experience and is designed to expand the encounter w...

Creators: Cromley, Elizabeth C., author.

GUSN: 359998

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.C755 2022

Loud, naked & in three colors :the Liberty boys & the history of tattooing in Boston /Derin Bray, Margaret Hodges.

160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Bray, Derin, author. Hodges, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 359999

Call Number: Stacks GT5960.T362 B67 2020

The Library of Congress :the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building /edited by John Y. Cole and Henry Hope Reed ; with essays by John Y. Cole [and others] ; preface by Arthur Ross ; foreword by James H. Billington ; introductions by Daniel Boorstin and Brendan Gill ; principal photography by Anne Day.

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (now known as the Jefferson Building) reached its 100th anniversary in 1997 after an eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its origi...

Creators: Cole, John Young, 1940- editor. Reed, Henry Hope, editor. Small, Herbert. Library of Congress, its architecture and decoration.

GUSN: 360000

Call Number: Stacks Z733.U6 L55 1997

The architects' and builders' hand-book.

pages cm

Date: 1921.

Creators: Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905. Nolan, Thomas, 1857-1926.

GUSN: 360012

Call Number: Rare TH151 K5 1921

Floating west :antique Japanese tattoo flash from the collection of Nick York /by Nick York.

pages : illustrations, photographs ; cm

Creators: York, Nick, author.

GUSN: 360013

Call Number: Stacks GT2346.J3 Y67 2021

Walter Gropius :an illustrated biography /Leyla Daybelge, Magnus Englund.

319 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Daybelge, Leyla, author. Englund, Magnus, author. Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Works.

GUSN: 360014

Call Number: Stacks NA1088.G85 E54 2022 c.1 (and 1 more)

Planning your home wisely! /by Royal Barry Wills.

95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1946.

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360015

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.W54 1946

Lost examples of colonial architecture :buildings that have disappeared or been so altered as to be denatured /by John Mead Howells ; with an introduction by Fiske Kimball.

260 pages, 244 pages of plates : illustrations 28 cm

Creators: Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959, author.

GUSN: 360016

Call Number: Stacks NA707.H75 1963

The life and letters of George Bancroft,by M.A. De Wolfe Howe ...

2 volumes 6 portraits (including frontispieces) 22 cm, George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he...

Date: 1908.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. Strippel, Henry C.

GUSN: 360017

Call Number: Stacks E340.B2 H8 v.1 (and 1 more)

Candle days;the story of early American arts and implements,by Marion Nicholl Rawson.

xvi, 307 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm

Date: [Ã1927]

Creators: Rawson, Marion Nicholl, 1878-1956.

GUSN: 360727

Call Number: E161.R26

The Spalding memorial :a genealogical history of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay and his descendants ; with a record of their military service in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars ; together with information concerning various other branches of the Spalding family /by Charles Warren Spalding.

xvi, 1308 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Date: 1996.

Creators: Spalding, Charles Warren, 1843-

GUSN: 360728

Call Number: CS71.S739 1996

Little gardens for boys and girls,by Myrta Margaret Higgins.

vii, 152 pages illustrations, plates 20 cm

Date: 1910.

Creators: Higgins, Myrta Margaret.

GUSN: 360729

Call Number: SB457.H6 1910

Lost Springfield, Massachusetts /Derek Strahan.

158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "At the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Armory opened in Springfield, spurring rapid growth. With that golden age of progress came iconic buildings and landmarks that are now lost to time. Railroads brought workers eager to fill Springfield's factories and ...

Creators: Strahan, Derek, author.

GUSN: 360730

Call Number: F74.S8 S95 2017

A memorial of the life and benefactions of Mary Hemenway, 1820-1894.

[10], 74 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Date: 1927.

Creators: Tileston, Mary Wilder, 1843-1934.

GUSN: 360731

Call Number: CT240.H48 M5 1927

Countering illicit traffic in cultural goods :the global challenge of protecting the world's heritage /edited by France Desmarais.

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Desmarais, France, 1956- International Council of Museums.

GUSN: 360732

Call Number: CC135.C68 2015

Building Stata :the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT /Nancy E. Joyce ; commentary by Frank O. Gehry ; photographs by Richard M. Sobol.

xxi, 137 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 x 28 cm, "This illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the in...

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Joyce, Nancy (Nancy Eleanor) Gehry, Frank O., 1929-

GUSN: 360733

Call Number: T171.M8195 J69 2004

Rough point :the Newport home of Doris Duke /written by A. Bruce MacLeish and Pieter N. Roos.

52 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: MacLeish, A. Bruce. Helms, Cheryl, donor. Roos, Pieter N.

GUSN: 360734

Call Number: F89.N5 M33 2003

Bibliotheca Salmo salar :a selection of rare books, manuscripts, journals, diaries, photograph albums, & ephemera on the subject of Atlantic salmon fishing /from the collection of Charles B. Wood III.

242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Wood, Charles B., III, 1936- author. Parrot, Gray, binder. Hoelfer, Jonathan, type designer. Kelly, Jerry, 1955- book designer. Godine, David R., donor. Pimlico,

GUSN: 360735

Call Number: Stacks SH685.W66 2017

Houses for good living,by Royal Barry Wills.

104 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) 32 cm

Date: [Ã1940]

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360736

Call Number: NA7120.W65 1940

Architecture of the Old South.Georgia /Mills Lane ; special photography by Van Jones Martin ; drawings by Gene Carpenter.

252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Lane, Mills. Martin, Van Jones. Carpenter, Gene.

GUSN: 360737

Call Number: NA730.G4 L36 1986

Art and work :as shown in the several artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta, metal, wood, and textile fabrics : as well as in the various details associated with decorative art : the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, Mediµval, Italian, Renaissance and Oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam," together with other designs from more recent authorities /by Owen W. Davis.

36 pages, 85 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 1885.

Creators: Davis, Owen W.

GUSN: 360738

Call Number: NK1175.D3

The last whole earth catalog :access to tools /[edited by Stewart Brand]

447 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm

Creators: Brand, Stewart, editor. Portola Institute,

GUSN: 360739

Call Number: TS199.L37 1971

Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums /Jenny F. So.

359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: So, Jenny F., author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360740

Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 H375 2018

Catalogue of the Feinberg collection of Japanese art /edited by Rachel Saunders.

263 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It represents...

Creators: Saunders, Rachel (Rachel M.), editor. Harvard Art Museums.

GUSN: 360741

Call Number: N7352.C38 2021

Social fabrics :inscribed textiles from Medieval Egyptian tombs /edited by Mary McWilliams and Jochen Sokoly ; with contributions by Robin Hanson, Mary McWilliams, Meredith Montague, Nasser Rabbat, Jochen Sokoly, David Stern, Katherine M. Taronas, Julie H. Wertz, Elizabeth Dospéel Williams, and Meredyth Lynn Winter.

x, 163 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 x 26 cm, Social Fabrics looks at tiraz - highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic - to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story a...

Creators: McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor. Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur), editor. Harvard University. Art Museums,

GUSN: 360742

Call Number: NK8808.9.S63 2021

Technologies of the image :art in 19th-century Iran /edited by David J. Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams ; with contributions by Farshid Emami, Mary McWilliams, David J. Roxburgh, and Mira Xenia Schwerda.

xviii, 173 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 29 cm, With a few notable exceptions, scholars have historically understudied and often underappreciated the art of Iran in the Qajar era (1779-1925). This catalogue presents a fresh take on the art of the period, se...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor, author. McWilliams, Mary, 1954- editor, author. Emami, Farshid, author. Schwerda, Mira Xenia, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360743

Call Number: N7280.T37 2017

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iranedited by David J. Roxburgh ; with contributions by Trent Barnes, Mycah Braxton, Gwendolyn Collaço, Farhad Dokhani, Bronwen Gulkis, Penley Knipe, Mary McWilliams, Sarah Mirseyedi, Veronika Poier, David J. Roxburgh, Mira Xenia Schwerda, and Meredyth Winter.

121 Seiten, 118 unnummerierte Tafelseiten Illustrationen 37 cm, Harvard's Qajar Album--57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works--is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian classic literatu...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J. 1965- Herausgeber Barnes, Trent Verfasser Harvard Art Museums

GUSN: 360744

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

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