Historic New England

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

Forest and crag :a history of hiking, trail blazing, and adventure in the Northeast Mountains /Laura and Guy Waterman.

xliv, 886 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Creators: Waterman, Laura, author. Waterman, Guy, author.

GUSN: 361641

Call Number: Stacks GV199.42.N38 W38 2019

SOS brutalism.

2 volumes (535, 180 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 29 cm, SOS Brutalism" is a distress signal. Since the 1950s, eminent architects around the world have realized buildings expressing an uncompromising attitude. Predominantly, yet not exclusively, they us...

Creators: Elser, Oliver, 1972- editor. Kurz, Philip, editor. Cachola Schmal, Peter, 1960- editor. Torkar, Felix, editor. Liesner, Maximilian, editor. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Wüstenrot Stiftung Deutscher Eigenheimverein,

GUSN: 361642

Call Number: Stacks NA682.B7 S67 2017 v.1 (and 1 more)

Made in the Americas :the new world discovers Asia /Dennis Carr ; with contributions by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Timothy Brook, Mitchell Codding, Karina H. Corrigan, Donna Pierce.

159 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits ; 27 cm, "Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, became a maj...

Creators: Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), writer of introduction, author. Bailey, Gauvin A., author. Brook, Timothy, 1951- author. Codding, Mitchell, author. Corrigan, Karina, author. Pierce, Donna, 1950- author. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

GUSN: 361740

Call Number: Coll NK801.C37 2015

Early seating upholstery :reading the evidence /Leroy Graves.

ix, 225 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, "Little upholstery from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has survived in America as rooms were redecorated or fabrics wore out or went out of fashion. Indeed, by the twentieth century, the upholstering processes were themselves largely lost. ...

Creators: Graves, Leroy, 1944- author.

GUSN: 361741

Call Number: Coll NK3195.G67 2015

A window on Williamsburg /photographs by Taylor Lewis, Jr. ; text by John J. Walklet, Jr., Thomas K. Ford, and Donna C. Sheppard.

79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm, "A Window on Williamsburg" captures the character and spirit of the restored city as never before. The arctitecture so uniquely Virginian, the antiques that constitute one of the world's finest collections of eighteenth-century furnishings, the gardens ...

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Lewis, Taylor Biggs. Walklet, John J., 1922- Ford, Thomas K. Sheppard, Donna C.

GUSN: 361742

Call Number: Coll F234.W7 L4 1994

A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce : The cultures of seaweed /Naomi Slipp and Maura Coughlin ; with contributions from Stacy Alaimo [and 9 others]

221 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Slipp, Naomi, author. Coughlin, Maura, author. New Bedford Whaling Museum,

GUSN: 361743

Call Number: Stacks QK567.5.S56 2023

Henry Hobson Richardson, and his works /by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer ; with a portrait and illustrations of the architect's designs ...

ix, 152 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, 36 plates (including plans) ; 39 cm

Date: 1888.

Creators: Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934.

GUSN: 361748

Call Number: Rare NA737.R5 V3 1888

Handyman's book /Better Homes & Gardens.

400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Date: 5th printing, Ã1957.

GUSN: 361765

Call Number: Stacks TX323.B4 1957

Dr. Chase's recipes;or, Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes ...By A.W. Chase ... Stereotyped. Carefully revised, illustrated, and much enlarged, with remarks and full explanations.

xxix, 384 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, portrait 18 cm

Date: 1867.

Creators: Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885.

GUSN: 361766

Call Number: Rare TX153.C48 1867

Furniture-makers and consumers in England, 1754-1851 :design as interaction /by Akiko Shimbo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan.

xvii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Shimbo, Akiko, author.

GUSN: 361767

Call Number: Coll HD9773.G72 S45 2015

The HABS and the HABs nots :documenting the architecture of Newburyport in the Historic American Buildings Survey /by Reginald W. Bacon ; Newburyport Preservation Trust.

160 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm

Creators: Bacon, Reginald W. Newburyport Preservation Trust.

GUSN: 361768

Call Number: Stacks NA735.N53 B33 2017

American country furniture :projects from the Workshops of David T. Smith /by Nick Engler and Mary Jane Favorite.

ix, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, "Provides step-by-step instructions for making a wide variety of woodworking projects, including a pie safe, candle stand, lap desk, pencil-post bed, and cradle."--Abebooks.com viewed Nov. 15, 2022., Signed by the author, 1991

Date: Ã1990.

Creators: Engler, Nick. Favorite, Mary Jane, 1942- Workshops of David T. Smith (Firm)

GUSN: 361769

Call Number: Coll TT194.E54 1990

Collecting antiques in America / Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee.

321 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [Ã1962]

Creators: Ormsbee, Thomas H.

GUSN: 361770

Call Number: Coll NK1125.O7 1962

The practical book of American silver /by Edward Wenham ; with line illustrations by Edgar Holloway and reproductions from photographs.

xvii, 275 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm, Different periods of American silver and its prevailing style.

Creators: Wenham, Edward, 1884-1956.

GUSN: 361771

Call Number: Coll NK7103.W46 1949

The story of American furniture,by Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee ... with thirty-one line drawings by Robert Curry and one hundred and seventeen illustrations.

xxi, 276 pages frontispiece, illustrations 24 cm

Date: 1937 [Ã1934]

Creators: Ormsbee, Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton), 1890-1969.

GUSN: 361772

Call Number: Coll NK2406.O73 1937

Antiques:a popular guide to antiques for everyone;introduction by Peter Philp.

144 pages illustrations (some color). 29 cm

Date: 1973.

GUSN: 361781

Call Number: Coll NK1125.A64 1973

Winterthur illustrated /John A.H. Sweeney ; photographs by Gilbert Ask ; introduction by Henry Francis DuPont.

179 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map ; 28 cm.

Date: 1963

Creators: Sweeney, John A. H. Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969. Sweeney, John A. H. Treasure house of early American rooms. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 361782

Call Number: Coll NK460.W5 S9 1963

Culture throughlines :values, visions, and transformation--African American music, American culture, and society /edited by William Banfield.

xii, 194 pages ; 26 cm., "What are the connective tissues that make human narratives thread and relate; values, heritage expressions, and how these define and sustain people. As a research associate with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), the editor's work focuses on w...

Creators: Banfield, William C., 1961- editor. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 362835

Call Number: stacks L3479.C85 2023

Buying time for heritage :how to save an endangered historic property /J. Myrick Howard.

ix, 330 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm, "Fully revised and redesigned, Buying Time for Heritage is a practical guide on how to save endangered historic properties. Using Preservation NC's Myrick Howard's decades of experience in historic preservation, readers will find legal, financial, politic...

Creators: Howard, J. Myrick, 1953- author.

GUSN: 362836

Call Number: Stacks NA111.H69 2023

Garden tourism /Richard Benfield, Central Connecticut State University, USA.

ix, 257 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm, Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festiv...

Creators: Benfield, Richard.

GUSN: 362837

Call Number: stacks G156.5.E58 B45 2013

Newport Cottages, 1835-1890 :the summer villas before the Vanderbilt era.

xiii, 385 page : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Date: 2023.

Creators: Kathrens, Michael C.

GUSN: 362838

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.N67 K38 2023

Life houses.

pages 1-52, 312-416, [53]-114 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm, Plans for houses originally commissioned by and featured in Life magazine.

Creators: Stone, Edward Durell, author. Koch, Richard, 1889-1971, author. Wurster, William Wilson, author. Kelley, H. Roy (Harold Roy), 1892- author. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959, author. Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962, author. Embury, Aymar, II, 1880-1966, author. Harrison & Fouilhoux,

GUSN: 362848

Call Number: Stacks NA7208.L54 1938

Better Homes & Gardens book of [five star] home plans.

28 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Date: 1945.

Creators: Better Homes and Gardens Books (Firm)

GUSN: 362849

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B4 1945 c.1 (and 1 more)

New ideas for building your home.

204 pages 32 cm

Date: 1946.

GUSN: 362850

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B528 1946

The book of Bildcost gardened-home plans /Better homes & gardens ; edited by John Normile.

70 pages : illustrations, plans ; 33 cm

Date: 1939.

Creators: Normile, John.

GUSN: 362859

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B527 1939

Better Homes & Gardens book of five star home plans.

66 pages illustrations, plans

Date: [1946]

Creators: Normile, John, editor.

GUSN: 362860

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B4 1946

The book of Bildcost gardened home plans / Better homes & gardens ; edited by John Normile.

70 pages illustrations

Date: 1941.

GUSN: 362863

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.B527 1941

The new antiquarians /written and curated by Michael Diaz-Griffith ; primary photography by Brian W. Ferry.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm, The once rarified and exclusive world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. The New Antiquarians captures 17 of the spaces of these young connoisseurs, spirited interiors formed from unorthodox approaches to collecti...

Creators: Diaz-Griffith, Michael, author. Ferry, Brian W.

GUSN: 362868

Call Number: Coll NK1125.D425 2023

Classical principles for modern design :lessons from Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman's The Decoration of Houses /Thomas Jayne ; written with Ted Loos.

212 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, Interior designer and decorative arts historian Thomas Jayne takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book 'The Decoration of Houses' is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design. Wharton and Codman advocat...

Creators: Jayne, Thomas, author. Loos, Ted, author.

GUSN: 364308

Call Number: Coll NK2110.J39 2018

Born in Cambridge :400 years of ideas and innovators /Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta.

xxii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm, "Born in Cambridge is both a history book and a story of contemporary events. It provides several dozen vignettes of innovative people who did formative work in Cambridge, such as African American social critic and early Civil Rights leader...

Creators: Weintraub, Karen, 1966- author. Kuchta, Michael, author.

GUSN: 364309

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.C1.W45 2022

Everything for the garden /Judith B. Tankard, Richard C Nylander, Alan Emmet, Virginia Lopez Begg ; [edited by] Richard Cheek.

143 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: Tankard, Judith B., author. Nylander, Richard C., author. Emmet, Alan, 1927-2021, author. Begg, Virginia Lopez, author. Cheek, Richard, editor.

GUSN: 364312

Call Number: Rare SB451.E84 2019

From guiding lights to beacons for business :the many lives of Maine's lighthouses /edited by Richard Cheek ; introduction by Olympia J. Snowe.

239 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: 2012.

Creators: Cheek, Richard.

GUSN: 364313

Call Number: Rare VK1024.M2 F76 2012

A woman's wit & whimsy :the 1833 diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy /edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer.

xii, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Date: 2003.

Creators: Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, 1812-1899. Palmer, Beverly Wilson, 1936- Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 364383

Call Number: Coll PS3157.W33 Z477 2003

America's paper money :a canvas for an emerging nation /William L. Pressly.

xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first government in the Western world to print paper money, the imagery for which initiated an indigenous American art form of remarkable dynamism and originality. After the Revolutionary War, disillusioned ...

Creators: Pressly, William L., 1944- author. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,

GUSN: 364385

Call Number: Stacks HG591.P74 2023

The painted furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840 /John A. Fleming with photographs by James A. Chambers.

179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Creators: Fleming, John A., 1935- Canadian Museum of Civilization.

GUSN: 364487

Call Number: Coll NK2441.A1 F54 1994

Splendid legacy :the Havemeyer collection /Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen [and others] ; with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth [and others].

xvi, 415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Creators: Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 364488

Call Number: Coll N5220.H295 S65 1993

Artist and visionary :William Matthew Prior revealed /by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.

64 pages : color front, color illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm

Date: 2012.

Creators: Prior, William Matthew, 1806-1873. Oak, Jacquelyn. Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

GUSN: 364489

Call Number: Coll N6507.O13 2012

Living with form :the Horn collection of contemporary crafts /photographs by Matt Bradley.

vii, 215 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, "Living with Form expresses the concept that artwork can become part of your home and enrich your life. This collection of contemporary crafts is focused on shape, volume, and the tactile nature of wood, clay, fiber, glass and metal."--Page 4 of cover.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Bradley, Matt, 1947- Arkansas Arts Center.

GUSN: 364490

Call Number: Coll NK535.H67 L58 1999

Writing New England :an anthology from the Puritans to the present /edited by Andrew Delbanco.

xlvi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, New England writing begins some 400 years ago when a group of English Puritans. Over the centuries New Englanders have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world including fiction, poetry history, memoirs, letters, and essays. This book provid...

Date: 2001.

Creators: Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

GUSN: 364491

Call Number: Coll F4.5.W75 2001

Tea and sympathy :post-Revolutionary ceramics in the Stamford Historical Society /catalogue prepared by Diana Edwards Roussel.

24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1981.

Creators: Edwards, Diana, 1943- Stamford Historical Society.

GUSN: 364492

Call Number: Coll NK4085.R86

Minton pottery & porcelain of the first period, 1793-1850 /[by] Geoffrey A. Godden.

xvi, 168 pages illustrations, 12 color plates, portraits 26 cm

Date: [1968]

Creators: Godden, Geoffrey A.

GUSN: 364493

Call Number: Coll NK4210.M55 G6 1968b

Pottery & porcelain tablewares /John P. Cushion.

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Date: 1976.

Creators: Cushion, John Patrick.

GUSN: 364494

Call Number: Coll NK4695.T33 C87

Potteries pots :the best in the world : ceramics at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.

31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Creators: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

GUSN: 364495

Call Number: Coll NK3735.G7 S76 1999

Sortilèges de Paris.Maquette de Claude Arthaud. Photos de Brassï, et al.

30 pages illustrations 26 cm.

Date: [1952]

Creators: Cali, François.

GUSN: 364496

Call Number: Stacks DC707.C3

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