Historic New England

The uses of compressed air : with illustrations / by Addison C. Rand.

134, iv p. : ill. ; 14 x 18 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Rand, Addison C.

GUSN: 149278

Call Number: Stacks TJ1005.R1

Retail and romance / by Julia Houston Railey.

32 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1926.

Creators: Railey, Julia Houston.

GUSN: 149279

Call Number: Stacks HF5465.U6 J6

The book of commerce by sea and land, exhibiting its connection with agriculture, the arts, and manufactures. To which are added a history of commerce, and a chronological table. Illustrated by a map and numerous engravings.

6, [9]-185 p. front., illus., fold. map. 20 cm.

Date: 1845 [c1836]

GUSN: 149280

Call Number: Stacks HF353.B66 1836 c.2

The Annual of scientific discovery: or, Year-book of facts in science and art. (Annual)

v. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1850-

Creators: Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898. Bliss, George, 1830-1897. Kneeland, Samuel, 1821-1888. Trowbridge, John, 1843-1923. Nichols, Wm. Ripley (William Ripley), 1847-1886.

GUSN: 149281

Call Number: Stacks Q9.A38 1850 (and 7 more)

America's arts and skills, by the editors of Life. With an introd. by Charles F. Montgomery.

172 p. illus. (part col.) 36 cm.

Date: 1957.

GUSN: 149282

Call Number: Ovr. NK805.L44

Hill's manual of social and business forms; a guide to correct writing.

533 p. illus.

Date: 1884.

Creators: Hill, Thomas Edie, 1832-1915.

GUSN: 149283

Call Number: Stacks AG105.H6 1884

Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book : designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy.

xiii, 306, 24, [8] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1848.

Creators: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. Treatise on domestic economy.

GUSN: 149284

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX715.B414 1848

City festivals.

x, 164 p. plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1893, [c1892]

Creators: Carleton, Will, 1845-1912.

GUSN: 149285

Call Number: Stacks PS1257.C45 1893

The house servant's directory / by Robert Roberts ; Forword to facsimile edition by Charles A. Hammond.

xiv, 180 p. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1977 [c1827].

Creators: Roberts, Robert. Hammond, Charles A.

GUSN: 149286

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX331.R64 1977 (and 1 more)

The house; its plan, decoration and care, by Isabel Bevier.

3 p. l., 164 p. (i. e. 180) p. illus. plates, plans. 20 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Bevier, Isabel, 1860-1942. American School of Home Economics.

GUSN: 149287

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7120.B6 1907

Manual of the arts, for young people : or, A present for all seasons.

[6], [9]-450, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1857.

Creators: Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, illus. Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, illus.

GUSN: 149288

Call Number: Stacks BJ1852.M35

Drapery cutting and making; a practical handbook for drapery workers, upholsterers and interior decorators. New and revised edition, containing over five hundred diagrams and illustrations, especially drawn by and under the direction of the author. By John W. Stephenson ...

1 p., ¾., 206 p. incl. illus., forms, diagrs., fold. pl. 31 cm.

Date: c1926.

Creators: Stephenson, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1876.

GUSN: 149289

Call Number: 85M Stacks TT390.S83 1926

Whatnot : a compendium of Victorian crafts & other matters, being a compilation of authentic home & hand crafts popular in the era of Her Most Excellent Majesty, Victoria, by the Grace of God Queen / assembled from the original 19th century ed. of Cassell's household guide, London, and enl. and expounded by the present authors, Marjorie Henderson and Elizabeth Wilkinson.

223 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Henderson, Marjorie. Wilkinson, Elizabeth, 1926-

GUSN: 149290

Call Number: 85M Stacks TT57.W45 1977

The life and works of John Singleton Copley : founded on the work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins / by Frank W. Bayley ...

285 p. : front. (port.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Bayley, Frank William, 1863-1932. Perkins, Augustus Thorndike, 1827-1891.

GUSN: 149291

Call Number: Stacks ND237.C7 B3 (and 1 more)

John Trumbull : the hand and spirit of a painter / Helen A. Cooper ; with essays by Patricia Mullan Burnham ... [et al.].

xv, 292 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Cooper, Helen A. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 149292

Call Number: Stacks ND237.T8 A4 1982

The philosophy of an organ builder.

81 p. front., illus., plates. 28 cm.

Date: [c1923]

Creators: Estey Organ Company.

GUSN: 149293

Call Number: Stacks ML561.E79

The notebook of John Smibert. With essays by Sir David Evans, John Kerslake, and Andrew Oliver, and with Notes relating to Smibert's American portraits by Andrew Oliver.

vi, 131 p. facsims., maps (on lining papers) 26 cm.

Date: 1969.

Creators: Smibert, John, 1688-1751. Evans, David Lewis, Sir, 1893- Kerslake, John F. Oliver, Andrew, 1906- Massachusetts Historical Society. Great Britain. Public Record Office.

GUSN: 149294

Call Number: Stacks ND237.S59 A52

American children, photographs from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art / Susan Kismaric.

77 p. : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Kismaric, Susan. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 149295

Call Number: Stacks HQ781.5.M84 1980

P. H. Emerson : the fight for photography as a fine art / by Nancy Newhall.

266 p. : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Newhall, Nancy Wynne.

GUSN: 149296

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR140.E43 N48 1975

Facing the light : historic American portrait daguerreotypes : an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, September 22, 1978-January 15, 1979 / by Harold Francis Pfister ; foreword by Marvin Sadik ; curatorial pref. by William F. Stapp.

378 p. : ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Pfister, Harold Francis. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

GUSN: 149297

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR680.P47

A certain slant of light : the first hundred years of New England photography / William F. Robinson.

243 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Robinson, William F., 1946- New York Graphic Society.

GUSN: 149298

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR23.15.R62 1980

Photography & society / by Gisáele Freund.

231 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1980.

Creators: Freund, Gisáele.

GUSN: 149299

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR147.F6513 1980

Photo-secession : Stieglitz and the fine-art movement in photography / Robert Doty ; with a foreword by Beaumont Newhall.

139 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Doty, Robert M. George Eastman House.

GUSN: 149300

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR650.G36 1978

Images and enterprises : technology and the American photographic industry, 1839 to 1925 / Reese V. Jenkins.

xviii, 371, [1] p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: [1976]

Creators: Jenkins, Reese.

GUSN: 149301

Call Number: Stacks HD9999.P53U5

Studying visual communication / Sol Worth ; edited, with an introduction by Larry Gross.

xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1981.

Creators: Worth, Sol. Gross, Larry P., 1942-

GUSN: 149302

Call Number: Stacks P93.5.W6 1981

Photography, essays & images : illustrated readings in the history of photography / edited by Beaumont Newhall.

327 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-

GUSN: 149303

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR185.P487

Letters & lettering; a treatise with 200 examples.

214 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1921.

Creators: Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-

GUSN: 149304

Call Number: Stacks NK3600.B8

America on stone : the other printmakers to the American people ... Harry T. Peters.

415 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1976, c1931.

Creators: Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948.

GUSN: 149305

Call Number: Stacks NE2303.7.P47 1976

California on stone / Harry T. Peters.

227 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1976, c1935.

Creators: Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948.

GUSN: 149306

Call Number: Stacks NE2310.C2 P4 1976

Currier & Ives, printmakers to the American people / Harry T. Peters.

2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1976, c1929-1931.

Creators: Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948.

GUSN: 149307

Call Number: Stacks NE2312.C8 P47 1976 v.1 (and 1 more)

Picture postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 / George and Dorothy Miller.

viii, 280 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. some col. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Miller, George, 1943- Miller, Dorothy joint author.

GUSN: 149308

Call Number: 85M Stacks NC1872.M54 1976

The history and development of advertising. With more than three hundred and fifty illustrations.

ix, 642 p. illus., facsims., ports. 26 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Presbrey, Frank, 1855-1936.

GUSN: 149309

Call Number: Stacks HF5811.P7

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, by C. Lewis Hind.

xlvii p., 1 ¾. front., 51 pl. (incl. ports.) 30 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Hind, Charles Lewis, 1862-1927.

GUSN: 149310

Call Number: Stacks NB237.S2 H6

Lines of different character : American art from 1727 to 1947 : [exhibition], Hirschl & Adler Galleries, November 13, 1982 -January 8, 1983.

106 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

GUSN: 149311

Call Number: Stacks N6505.L535 1989

A checklist of American paintings at Yale University / compiled by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Galina Gorokhoff.

xxii, 213 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Stebbins, Theodore E. Gorokhoff, Galina. Yale University. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 149312

Call Number: Stacks ND205.Y28 1982

"A man of genius" : the art of Washington Allston (1779-1843) / by William H. Gerdts & Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.

255 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Gerdts, William H. Allston, Washington, 1779-1843. Stebbins, Theodore E. joint author. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

GUSN: 149313

Call Number: 85M Stacks ND237.A4 A4 1979

1846 :portrait of the nation /Margaret C.S. Christman.

xx, 211 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm., In 1846 America, a young, vibrant republic, was expanding in directions unimagined only a few years earlier. The nation plunged into war with Mexico and rushed to settle the West. The country saw the steady rise of cities, the expansion of th...

Date: c1996.

Creators: Christman, Margaret C. S. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

GUSN: 244043

Call Number: Stacks E166.C5 1996

Silversmiths to the nation :Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842 /Donald L. Fennimore and Ann K. Wagner ; with contributions from Cathy Matson, Deborah Dependahl Waters, Beth Carver Wees.

287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c2007.

Creators: Fennimore, Donald L. Wagner, Ann K. (Ann Kelly), 1967- Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 244045

Call Number: Coll. NK7198.F55 F43 2007

Key houses of the twentieth century :plans, sections and elevations /Colin Davies.

240 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Date: c2006.

Creators: Davies, Colin, 1929-

GUSN: 244047

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7126.D38 2006

The art of placemaking :interpreting community through public art and urban design /Ronald Lee Fleming.

383 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm., In The Art of Placemaking, Ronald Lee Fleming adopts a practical approach to tackling public art and community planning in the US as they are experienced today. Through detailed, in-depth case studies he discusses the development of placemaking initiatives since 1990, ac...

Date: 2007.

Creators: Fleming, Ronald Lee.

GUSN: 244049

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA9052.F54 2007

Women and the making of the modern house :a social and architectural history /Alice T. Friedman.

240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 2006.

Creators: Friedman, Alice T.

GUSN: 244051

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA2543.W65 F75 2006 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Dream homes New England :showcasing New England's finest architects, designers & builders /by Panache Partners, LLC.

p. cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Panache Partners LLC.

GUSN: 244053

Call Number: Stacks NA7210.D74 2008

A manufactured wilderness :summer camps and the shaping of American youth, 1890-1960 /Abigail A. Van Slyck.

xxxvii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Van Slyck, Abigail Ayres.

GUSN: 244056

Call Number: 85M Stacks GV193.V37 2006

Christmas in New England :a treasury of traditions, from the Yule log and the Christmas tree to flying Santa and the Enchanted Village /Amy Whorf McGuiggan.

xi, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: McGuiggan, Amy Whorf, 1956-

GUSN: 244059

Call Number: Stacks GT4986.N4 M34 2006

Leviathan :the history of whaling in America /Eric Jay Dolin.

479 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm., The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. Few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Environmental writer Dolin chron...

Date: c2007.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay.

GUSN: 244061

Call Number: Stacks SH383.2.D65 2007

Tupperware :the promise of plastic in 1950s America /Alison J. Clarke.

x, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., Traces the development of the plasticwares in the 1940s and 50s, especially the "party plan" marketing strategy developed by Brownie Wise.

Date: c1999.

Creators: Clarke, Alison J.

GUSN: 244063

Call Number: 85M Stacks HD9662.C664 T863 1999

The Fairbanks House :a history of the oldest timber-frame building in New England /by Abbott Lowell Cummings.

vii, 110 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Date: 2002.

Creators: Cummings, Abbott Lowell, 1923-

GUSN: 244065

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.D36 C86 2002

Surveying the shore :historic maps of coastal Massachusetts 1600-1930 /Joseph G. Garver.

viii, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 32 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Garver, Joseph G.

GUSN: 244068

Call Number: Stacks GA61.M4 G37 2006

The history of Martha's Vineyard :how we got to where we are /Arthur R. Railton.

x, 465 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Railton, Arthur R.

GUSN: 244070

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 R35 2006

Thomas Chambers :American marine and landscape painter, 1808-1869 /Kathleen A. Foster.

xi, 171 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Foster, Kathleen A. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

GUSN: 244072

Call Number: Stacks ND237.C44 A4 2008

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