Historic New England

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of antique, Mediµval, Italian, Renaissance and Oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam," together with other designs from more recent authorities /by Owen W. Davis.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

An album of artists' drawings from Qajar Iran /edited 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 pages, 118 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 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 ...

Creators: Roxburgh, David J., editor. Barnes, Trent, author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360745

Call Number: N6263.C36 H37 2017

Object lessons :the Bauhaus and Harvard /edited by Laura Muir ; with contributions by Francesca G. Bewer [and 17 others].

286 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages ; 24 x 15 cm), bound inside the back cover, "A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus. Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th cen...

Creators: Muir, Laura, editor. Bewer, Francesca G. (Francesca Gabrielle), 1960- contributor. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360746

Call Number: N332.G33 B4564 2021

Architectural graphic standards for architects, engineers, decorators, builders, and draftsmen /by Charles George Ramsey, Harold Reeve Sleeper.

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, plans ; 30 x 24 cm

Date: [1946]

Creators: Ramsey, Charles George, 1884-1963. Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960.

GUSN: 360747

Call Number: TH2031.R35 1946

Encyclopedia of architecture :a dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, etc., from the earliest times to the present /by Peter Nicholson ; edited by Edward Lomax and Thomas Gunyon.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: [1850?]

Creators: Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844. Lomax, Edward. Gunyon, Thomas.

GUSN: 360748

Call Number: NA3 1 .N5 1850

Preventive conservation :collection storage /[editors] Lisa Elkin and Christopher A. Norris.

xv, 926 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care, advancing conservation while at the same time promoting accessibility and use. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage covers the storage of all types of collections, including science, fin...

Creators: Elkin, Lisa, 1966- editor. Norris, Christopher A., 1966- editor. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Smithsonian Institution, George Washington University,

GUSN: 360865

Call Number: Coll AM145.P74 2019

Art in the Massachusetts State House.

78 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 x 28 cm, ...Traces the history of its art collections and the commission's role in acquiring various works; includes a complete catalog of portraits, sculpture and other works...

Date: 1986.

Creators: Massachusetts Art Commission.

GUSN: 360866

Call Number: Coll N6535.B7 A78 1986

Edith Wharton's Lenox /Cornelia Brooke Gilder.

222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author wit...

Creators: Gilder, Cornelia Brooke, author.

GUSN: 361311

Call Number: Stacks PS3545.H16 Z649 2017

The organ in New England :an account of its use and manufacture to the end of the nineteenth century /by Barbara Owen.

xx, 629 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361312

Call Number: Stacks ML561.O95

The almighty wall :the architecture of Henry Vaughan /William Morgan.

xi, 210 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.

Date: Ã1983.

Creators: Morgan, William, 1944-

GUSN: 361313

Call Number: Stacks NA737.V38 M67 1983

The life of a musician woven into a strand of history of the New England Conservatory of Music,by Henry Morton Dunham.

235 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1931]

Creators: Dunham, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1853-1929.

GUSN: 361314

Call Number: Stacks ML416.D8

The great organ at Methuen :from its celebrated arrival in nineteenth-century Boston to the present /Barbara Owen.

xiii, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm., In the middle of the nineteenth-century, American organbuilding reached a milestone when, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, a large concert organ--really the first of its kind in the country--was opened in Boston's relatively-new Music Hall....

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Owen, Barbara.

GUSN: 361315

Call Number: Stacks ML594.M48 O94 2011

The Great estates, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1880-1930 /by the Junior League of Greenwich.

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Junior League of Greenwich, Connecticut.

GUSN: 361316

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 G74 1986

Larz and Isabel Anderson :wealth and celebrity in the Gilded Age /Stephen T. Moskey.

xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This is the story of Larz and Isabel Anderson, wealthy socialites of the Gilded Age, whose extraordinary lives spanned a century of American history-from the Civil War to World War II. Their world included dozens of celebrities who helped define modern culture...

Creators: Moskey, Stephen T., 1950- author.

GUSN: 361317

Call Number: Stacks E748.A217 M67 2016

Daughters of the Samurai :a journey from East to West and back /Janice P. Nimura.

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to h...

Creators: Nimura, Janice P., author.

GUSN: 361318

Call Number: Stacks E184.J3 N484 2015

Daisy Turner's kin :an African American family saga /Jane C. Beck.

295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm., "A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--'a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved'--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and cont...

Creators: Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.

GUSN: 361319

Call Number: Stacks E185.97.T93 B43 2015

American rebels :how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution /Nina Sankovitch.

viii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; 25 cm, "Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revol...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361320

Call Number: Stacks F74.B6 S26 2020

Restaurant republic :the rise of public dining in Boston /Kelly Erby.

xxiii, 151 pages ; 22 cm, "Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingly divided, resulting in new forms of commercial dining. In this fascinating book, Kelly Erby explores the evolution of such...

Creators: Erby, Kelly, author.

GUSN: 361321

Call Number: Stacks TX909.2.M32 B674 2016

Rockland /Donald Cann and John Galluzzo.

128 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Cann, Donald. Galluzzo, John.

GUSN: 361322

Call Number: Stacks F74.R67 C36 2003

The new traditional garden :a practical guide to creating and restoring authentic American gardens for homes of all ages /Michael Weishan.

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Provides a compendium of antique plants, plans for antique gardens representing a range of styles and periods, a list of suppliers, and a directory of great historic gardens.

Date: 1999.

Creators: Weishan, Michael.

GUSN: 361323

Call Number: Stacks SB457.53 .W45 1999

Amherst College :the campus guide /an architectural tour by Blair Kamin ; photography by Ralph Lieberman ; foreword by Biddy Martin.

255 pages ; 26 cm + 1 campus guide map., "The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Kamin, Blair, author.

GUSN: 361324

Call Number: Stacks LD153.K36 2020 c.1 (and 1 more)

Storied strings :the guitar in American art /Leo G. Mazow ; with additional essays by Philip J. Deloria and Jayson Kerr Dobney.

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Mazow, Leo G., author. Dobney, Jayson Kerr, contributor. Deloria, Philip Joseph, contributor. Nyerges, Alexander Lee, contributor. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 361358

Call Number: Coll ML1015.G9 M39 2022

Late of the guards :tattoo designs by Ben Corday /Rich Hardy.

A century-old sketchbook of tattoo designs painted by legendary Los Angeles tattoo artist Ben Corday, presented in lush facsimile. Includes a richly illustrated essay chronicling Corday's life and career.

Date: c2023.

Creators: Hardy, Rich, 1984- author.

GUSN: 361359

Call Number: Stacks GT2345.H37 2023

Architecture constructed :notes on a discipline /Mark Jarzombek.

viii, 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm, "Archi-Tect explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persist...

Creators: Jarzombek, Mark, author.

GUSN: 361360

Call Number: Stacks NA2500.J37 2023

The letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924, with correspondence by Mary Berenson /edited and annotated by Rollin van N. Hadley.

xxxviii, 718 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Creators: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924. Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945. Hadley, Rollin van N. Israëls, Machtelt. Strehlke, Carl Brandon.

GUSN: 361428

Call Number: Stacks N7483.B47 A3 2016

Cup

a redware cup, of cylindrical form with out-turned rim, covered with an orange-red lead glaze with dark/black specks. Part of a toiletry set.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware, throwing (pottery technique)

GUSN: 3132

Accession Number: 1991.1632

Hand Mirror

A hand mirror of hand carved pine in odd triangular form, made to fit a long broken piece of mirrored glass, held in with metal pins, with tapered handle and a round knob at the end.

Date: 1750-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), metal, mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 3133

Accession Number: 1991.1633

Comb

Baleen comb, flat and carved into the shape of a whale, with an upturned tail for a handle, teeth at the head/torso area and two incised lines around the teeth.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: baleen, carving (processes), incising

GUSN: 3134

Accession Number: 1991.1634

Sliding Candlestand

An octangonal candle cup on a long sliding, rectangular stem, flauted by two rectangular posts. It is raised on a heavy, slant-sided base with 3-peg feet. All are painted red.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3135

Accession Number: 1991.1635

Hair Comb

Tortise shell (or horn) hair comb, medium-large rounded-back form, its top a plain two inch panel with straight top, above a series of long narrow teeth (some missing).

Date: 1815-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves, horn (animal material), molding (forming), tortoise shell

GUSN: 3136

Accession Number: 1991.1637

Bedpan

Round bedpan with a wide lip and nozzle end, covered with an orange glaze and bown splotches.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: lead glaze, redware

GUSN: 3137

Accession Number: 1991.1640

Windsor Stool

Round top with a padded, hooked seat with worked in wool yarns, with a red and green floral spig at the center on a tan ground enclosed by green leaf-shaped devices, and green wool fringe. It is raised on four splayed rod-turned legs joined by box stretches and grain painted in red and black. The se...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), graining, hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3138

Accession Number: 1991.1642

Desk on Frame

Desk on frame. Pine with original cart blue paint. Top has fall front with six pigeon holes and open spaces below. Base has no drawer, chamfered legs with no turnings, and plain stretchers. In two sections; hinged thumb molded slant top box opening.

Date: 1780-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 3139

Accession Number: 1991.1643

Carved Wooden Box

A slightly domed hinged lid on a conforming box, a carved surface (except the back), the top of the lid is carved with quarter circles centering the inscription. The sides are carved with a diamond pattern centering a heart at the front keyhole and six pointed stars at the ends; the heart and stars ...

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3140

Accession Number: 1991.1644

Marine Sandglass

Maritime hour glass with reversible case/wall bracket. Half-hour measure; used to determine ship's speed in knots.

Date: 1730-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), glass (material), sand

GUSN: 3141

Accession Number: 1991.1645

Rug

Rectangular hooked rug with a green oval on a blue field; scrolls in the corners; abstract flowers worked in blue, pink, red, and green in the center.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3142

Accession Number: 1991.1646

Rug

Rectangular form with centered polychrome stylized floral heads enclosed by 4 oak leaves and within a red, green, pink flower sprig and leafy border, all on a vauegated tan gound of green and brown.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: burlap, cotton (textile), hooking, wool (textile)

GUSN: 3143

Accession Number: 1991.1647

Chair

Turned back posts with modified mushroom finials joined by three arched slats (one slat below seat). Rounded front posts and a trapezoidal shaped seat; three red-turned stretchers front and sides, two red-turned stretchers at the back, painted red. A woven string seat.

Date: 1790-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), painting (coating), string (fiber product), turning (shaping process)

GUSN: 3144

Accession Number: 1991.1648

Carved Head

A small head standing on squared base, all carved from one piece of wood (2 carvings were made from this piece of wood 1991.1650). Long face, prominant features, eyeballs colored to accentuate the eyes, mouth and nostrils are incised. Surfaces appear dark with age. Face has been painted red, eyes an...

Date: 1900-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), pine (wood), whittling

GUSN: 3145

Accession Number: 1991.1649

Canada Goose

Carved and painted decoy representing a goose, of the "Loomer" type, in a swimming position; with a brown back, and black tail, head and underbelly.

Date: 1880-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: oil paint (paint), wood (plant material), carving (processes), painting (coating)

GUSN: 3146

Accession Number: 1991.1651

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