Historic New England

Building superintendence : a manual for young architects, students, and others interested in building operations as carried on at the present day / by T.M. Clark.

336 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1896, c1883.

Creators: Clark, T. M. (Theodore Minot), 1845-1909.

GUSN: 151544

Call Number: Stacks TH438.C5 1896

"How to do it" builder's manual.

150 p. : ill., diagrs. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1947]

GUSN: 151545

Call Number: Stacks TH146.P7

Materials and methods of architectural construction / by Charles Merrick Gay ... and Harry Parker ...

x, 636 p. : front., ill., diagrs., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Gay, Charles Merrick, 1871-1951. Parker, Harry, 1887-

GUSN: 151546

Call Number: Stacks TH145.G35 1943

The design of reinforced concrete structures / by Dean Peabody, Jr. ...

xi, 532 p. : ill., diagrs. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1946]

Creators: Peabody, Dean, 1888-

GUSN: 151547

Call Number: Stacks TA683.P37 1946

Theory of modern steel structures ... / by Linton E. Grinter ...

2 v. : fronts., ill., diagrs. (2 fold. on 1 ¾.) ; 24 cm.

Date: 1937-42.

Creators: Grinter, Linton E. (Linton Elias), 1902-

GUSN: 151548

Call Number: Stacks TH1611.G758 1942 vol.2

American building : the forces that shape it.

xiii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1948.

Creators: Fitch, James Marston.

GUSN: 151549

Call Number: Stacks NA705.F5

Pen drawing : an illustrated treatise / by Charles D. Maginnis.

x, 121 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1913 [1899]

Creators: Maginnis, Charles Donagh, 1867-1955.

GUSN: 151550

Call Number: Stacks NC905.M25 1913

Swimming pools, a guide to their planning, design, and operation; a project of the Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics. Edited by M. Alexander Gabrielsen.

223 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Gabrielsen, M. Alexander. Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics.

GUSN: 151551

Call Number: Stacks TH4763.S83

Aluminum in modern architecture / by John Peter. Associate editor, Edward A. Hamilton.

2v. : ill., ports., diagrs., tables. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1956]

Creators: Peter, John, 1917- Weidlinger, Paul. Reynolds Metals Company.

GUSN: 151552

Call Number: Stacks NA4140.R4 vol.1 (and 1 more)

La serrurerie / par Henry Havard.

171 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [18-?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 151553

Call Number: Stacks NK6406.H3

La câeramique / par Henry Harvard.

139 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 151554

Call Number: Stacks TT920.H38

La dâecoration / par Henry Havard.

viii, 176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [189-?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 151555

Call Number: Stacks NK2049.H3 1890z

Manual of steel construction.

1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1963]

Creators: American Institute of Steel Construction.

GUSN: 151556

Call Number: Stacks TA684.A47 1963

Design of modern steel structures / by Linton E. Grinter.

xix, [1], 452 p. : ill., tables, diagrs., fold. plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1941.

Creators: Grinter, Linton E. (Linton Elias), 1902-

GUSN: 151557

Call Number: Stacks TH1611.G752

Wrought iron : its manufacture, characteristics and applications / by James Aston ... and Edward B. Story ...

vi, 97 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Aston, James, 1876- Story, Edward B.

GUSN: 151558

Call Number: Stacks TA469.A8 1939

A text-book of the history of architecture / by A.D.F. Hamlin ...

xxvii, 467 p. : ill., plates, plans ; 20 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926.

GUSN: 151559

Call Number: Stacks NA200.H4

Bethlehem structural shapes : information and tables for architects, engineers, and designers of buildings and other steel structures.

72 p. : tables ; 24 cm.

Date: c1948.

Creators: Bethlehem Steel Company.

GUSN: 151560

Call Number: Stacks TH2031.B48 1948

Data sheets / by Don Graf.

779 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1944.

Creators: Graf, Don.

GUSN: 151561

Call Number: Stacks TH151.G68 1944

The architects' and builders' pocket-book : a handbook for architects, structural engineers, builders and draughtmen / by the late Frank E. Kidder; comp. by a staff of specialists, Thomas Nolan, editor-in-chief.

xxiii, 1816 p. : ill., tables ; 18 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Kidder, Frank Eugene, 1859-1905. Nolan, Thomas, 1857-

GUSN: 151562

Call Number: Stacks TH161.K5 c.1 1916 (and 1 more)

First principles of physics / by Henry S. Carhart and Horatio N. Chute.

viii, 412 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1912.

Creators: Carhart, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1844-1920. Chute, Horatio N. (Horatio Nelson), 1847-1928.

GUSN: 151563

Call Number: Stacks QC23.C28

The fundamentals of good bank building / by Alfred Hopkins.

7 p. ¾., 142 p., 1 ¾. : ill., plans, plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Hopkins, Alfred, 1870-1941.

GUSN: 151564

Call Number: Stacks NA6240.H6

Mechanics of materials.

422 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: Laurson, Philip Gustave, 1885- Cox, William Junkin, 1896-

GUSN: 151565

Call Number: Stacks TA405.L34 1947

Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning fundamentals / by William H. Severns and Julian R. Fellows.

vii, 666 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: [1949]

Creators: Severns, William H. (William Harrison), b. 1888. Fellows, Julian Robert, 1900-

GUSN: 151566

Call Number: Stacks TH7012.S4 1949

The mechanical engineer's pocket-book : a reference-book of rules, tables, data, and formulµ, for the use of engineers, mechanics, and students / by William Kent.

xxix, 1461 p. : ill., diagrs. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1910.

Creators: Kent, William, 1851-1918.

GUSN: 151567

Call Number: Stacks TA151.K4 1910

The civil engineer's reference book (formerly "pocketbook") / by John C. Trautwine and John C. Trautwine, jr., edited by John C. Trautwine, 3d, C. E.

1 p. l., v-xi, xx-xxx, 1, 33-1514 p. : ill., tables, diagrs. 18 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883. Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1850-1924.

GUSN: 151568

Call Number: Stacks TA151.T77 1937

Letters & lettering : a treatise with 200 examples / [by] Frank Chouteau Brown.

xviii p., 1 l., 214 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1902.

Creators: Brown, Frank Chouteau, 1876-

GUSN: 151569

Call Number: Stacks NK3600.B8

Structural engineers' handbook : data for the design and construction of steel bridges and buildings / by Milo S. Ketchum.

xv, 749, 316 p. : ill., diagrs. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1924.

Creators: Ketchum, Milo Smith, 1872-1934.

GUSN: 151570

Call Number: Stacks TA684.K4 1924

Landscape garden series / ed. by Ralph Rodney Root.

10 pt. : fronts., ill. (incl. plans) ; 24 cm.

Date: [1921]

Creators: Root, Ralph Rodney.

GUSN: 151571

Call Number: Stacks SB472.R85 pt.1 (and 9 more)

Audels answers on blue print reading for mechanics and builders.

394 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: [1956]

Creators: Graham, Frank Duncan, 1875-

GUSN: 151572

Call Number: Stacks T379.G7 1956

Writings on landscape, culture, and society /Frederick Law Olmsted ; Charles E. Beveridge, editor.

xx, 802 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 21 cm., A highly varied collection including letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences. Subjects include li...

Creators: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, author. Beveridge, Charles E., editor.

GUSN: 359344

Call Number: Stacks SB470.O5 $b A533 2015

Thirty-eight :the hurricane that transformed New England /Stephen Long.

xv, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New Englands Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island a...

Creators: Long, Stephen, 1953- author.

GUSN: 359345

Call Number: Stacks QC945 $b.L66 2016

Imagining Ichabod :my journey into 18th-century America through history, food, and a Georgian house /Paula Bennett.

252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Creators: Bennett, Paula, MEd, author. Agrafiotis, Sandy, photographer.

GUSN: 359346

Call Number: Stacks F29.S67 B46 2016 (and 1 more)

The art and science of Abbott Handerson Thayer /Kevin M. Murphy.

126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm., Though perhaps best known for his portraits, American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) also developed detailed theories of animal camouflage. With his fine-arts training and his careful observations of nature, Thayer created w...

Creators: Murphy, Kevin M. (Kevin Michael), author. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921. Paintings. Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921, artist. Williams College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359347

Call Number: Coll ND237.T5 $b A4x 2016

Canoes :a natural history in North America /Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims ; foreword by John McPhee.

xxxiv, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 x 27 cm, Ancient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so ...

Creators: Neuzil, Mark, author. Sims, Norman, author. McPhee, John, 1931- author of foreword.

GUSN: 359348

Call Number: Stacks VM353.N48 2016

American impressionist :Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals /edited by Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey ; with contributions by Austen Barron Bailly, Kathleen M. Burnside, John W. Coffey, Hal Weeks, and a photo essay by Alexandra de Steiguer.

124 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years...

Creators: Bailly, Austen Barron, editor. Coffey, John W. (John William), 1954- editor. North Carolina Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum,

GUSN: 359349

Call Number: Coll ND237.H345 A4 2016 (and 1 more)

Cyanotypes :photography's blue period /edited by Nancy Kathryn Burns, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs ; Kristina Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, Clark University.

95 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm

Creators: Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, curator. Wilson, Kristina, editor, curator. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359350

Call Number: Stacks TR415.C93 2016 c.1 (and 1 more)

Mount Washington :the crown of New England /P. Andrew Spahr ; with essays by Karen E. Quinn, Inez McDermott, Peter Crane.

111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm

Creators: Spahr, P. Andrew. From wilderness to icon. Quinn, Karen E. Readjusting the view. McDermott, Inez. To see wonders and beauties. Crane, Peter (Peter Joseph). Scientists and artists in the White Mountains. Currier Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359351

Call Number: Coll F41.6.W3 M95 2016

The lively place :Mount Auburn, America's first garden cemetery, and its revolutionary and literary residents /Stephen Kendrick ; illustrations by Matthew A. Longo.

254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Harvard University, was also a place that reflected and instilled an imperativ...

Creators: Kendrick, Stephen, 1954- author. Unitarian Universalist Association.

GUSN: 359352

Call Number: Stacks F73.61.M8 $b K45 2016

Shelburne Farms :house, gardens, farm, and barns /Glenn Suokko ; foreword by Alec Webb ; afterword by Megan Camp.

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, The text tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America's leading aristocrats of the day, Eliza "Lila" Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb. Built between 1886 and 1905, the houses and barns, desi...

Creators: Suokko, Glenn, author. Webb, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, 1860-1936, contributor. Webb, William Seward, contributor. Webb, Alec, writer of foreward. Camp, Megan, writer of afterword. Robertson, R. H. (Robert Henderson), 1849- designer.

GUSN: 359379

Call Number: Stacks F59.S49 S86 2017

You had a job for life :story of a company town /Jamie Sayen.

283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the bottom line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers at the hands of avaricious and unaccountable multinational interests. The story of America's industrial decline is all too familiar--and yet, some...

Creators: Sayen, Jamie, author.

GUSN: 359380

Call Number: Stacks HD9828.G76 S29 2018

Summer over autumn :a small book of small-town life /Howard Mansfield.

127 pages ; 19 cm, Howard Mansfield's new book, Summer Over Autumn: A Small Book of Small-Town Life is named for what Mansfield calls the moment in late summer when the season is still going strong but you get that first glimpse at autumn. "There's a moment every summer when I look up at a nearby ...

Creators: Mansfield, Howard, author.

GUSN: 359381

Call Number: Stacks F44.H4 M36 2017

Universalists and Unitarians of Maine :a Comprehensive History /by Peter Tufts Richardson.

vii, 686 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm, "Maine's oldest church is Unitarian, founded in Portland in 1674. Half of Maine's early governors were Unitarians. Maine's oldest Universalist congregation was founded in rural Norway in 1798. Inland Universalists prevailed against the...

Creators: Richardson, Peter Tufts, author.

GUSN: 359382

Call Number: Stacks BX9933.5.M2 R53 2017

Art & industry in early America :Rhode Island furniture, 1650-1830 /Patricia E. Kane ; with Dennis Carr, Nancy Goyne Evans, Jennifer N. Johnson, Gary R. Sullivan.

xiii, 494 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm, This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illust...

Creators: Kane, Patricia E., author. Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew), author. Johnson, Jennifer N., author. Sullivan, Gary R., author. Evans, Nancy Goyne, author. Yale University. Art Gallery,

GUSN: 359383

Call Number: Coll NK2435.R4 A78 2016

William Merritt Chase :a modern master /Elsa Smithgall [and four others] ; with a foreword by D. Frederick Baker.

xix, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best k...

Creators: Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916, artist. Smithgall, Elsa, author. Baker, D. Frederick, writer of foreword. Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916. Paintings. Phillips Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fondazione Musei civici di Venezia, Museo d'arte moderna Ca' Pesaro, Terra Foundation for American Art,

GUSN: 359384

Call Number: Coll N6537.C464 A4 2016

The Blue Garden :recapturing an iconic Newport landscape /by Arleyn A. Levee ; edited by Sarah Vance.

207 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm, 1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in., Among the many notable gardens created by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the Olmsted firm, the "Blue Garden" designed for Arthur Curtiss and Harriet Parsons James f...

Creators: Levee, Arleyn A., author. Vance, Sarah, editor Harvey, Millicent, photographer Lee, Marianne, photographer Redwood Library and Athenaeum,

GUSN: 359385

Call Number: Stacks SB466.U7 B58 2016

The instruction of young ladies :arts from private girls' schools and academies in early America /Robert Shaw and Jane Katcher.

79 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Creators: Shaw, Robert, 1951- author. Katcher, Jane, author. Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.),

GUSN: 359386

Call Number: Coll NK806.S53 2016

Polygamy :an early American history /Sarah M.S. Pearsall.

xv, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America. Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian S...

Creators: Pearsall, Sarah M. S., author. Yale University Press,

GUSN: 359396

Call Number: Stacks HQ981.P43 2019

Saving Thoreau's birthplace :How citizens rallied to bring Henry out of the woods /Lucille Stott.

vi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Stott, Lucille., author. Myerson Collection.

GUSN: 359397

Call Number: Stacks PS3053.S368 2018

Olmsted in Seattle :creating a park system for a modern city /by Jennifer Ott.

175 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 23 x 26 cm, "In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle's city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture fi...

Creators: Ott, Jennifer, 1971- author.

GUSN: 359398

Call Number: Stacks SB472.7 .O88 2019

Boston in transit :mapping the history of public transportation in the hub /Steven Beaucher.

ix, 579 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 29 cm, "Boston in Transit is a comprehensive history of public transportation infrastructure and the modes of transit that have moved Boston for nearly four centuries. Since Boston's founding in 1630, public transportation has been...

Creators: Beaucher, Steven, author. WardMaps LLC,

GUSN: 359399

Call Number: Stacks HE310.B6 B43 2020

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