Historic New England

The plain people of Boston, 1830-1860: a study in city growth [by] Peter R. Knights.

xx, 204 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Knights, Peter R.

GUSN: 149605

Call Number: Stacks HB3527.B7 K6 (and 1 more)

Old Boston boys and the games they played / by James D'Wolf Lovett.

x, 233 p. : illus., ports. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Lovett, James D'Wolf, 1844-1935.

GUSN: 149606

Call Number: Stacks GV54.M4 B7 1907

Invitation to Boston, a merry guide to her past, present, and future. Photos. by Samuel Chamberlain, maps by Chadbourne & Wilcox.

xiii, 258 p. illus., maps. 22 cm.

Date: [1947]

Creators: Lyons, Agnes Claire, 1908- Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 149607

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.L9

Sights in Boston and suburbs; or, Guide to the stranger. By R. L. Midgley. Illustrated by Billings, Hill, Barry, and John Andrew.

2 p., ¾., 2, 5, 225 p. front., illus., 2 maps (1 fold.) fold. plan. 17 cm.

Date: 1856.

Creators: Midgley, R. L.

GUSN: 149608

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.M62

One boy's Boston, 1887-1901 / Samuel Eliot Morison ; with a foreword by Edward Weeks.

xi, 81 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1983, c1962.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 149609

Call Number: Stacks E175.5.M66 A36 1983

A municipal history of the town and city of Boston during two centuries : from September 17, 1630, to September 17, 1830 / by Josiah Quincy.

xi, 444 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1852.

Creators: Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864.

GUSN: 149610

Call Number: Ref. F73.3.Q75

Yesterdays with actors, by Catherine Mary Reignolds-Winslow.

201 p. front., ports. 21 cm.

Date: 1887.

Creators: Winslow, Catherine Mary Reignolds, d. 1911.

GUSN: 149611

Call Number: Stacks PN2287.W5 A3

Recreation in and about Boston; a handbook of opportunities, compiled by the Prospect union association of Cambridge.

xix, 220 p. front., plates. 17 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Prospect Union Association, Cambridge, Mass.

GUSN: 149612

Call Number: Stacks F73.5.P96

The book of Boston: the Federal period, 1775 to 1837. With photos. by Samuel Chamberlain.

176 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Ross, Marjorie Drake.

GUSN: 149613

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R82

The old Representatives' hall, 1798-1895. An address delivered before the Massachusetts House of representatives, January 2, 1895, by Alfred Seelye Roe ...

72 p. front., plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Roe, Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye), 1844-1917. Massachusetts. General court, 1895. House of representatives.

GUSN: 149614

Call Number: Stacks F73.8.S8 R7 (and 1 more)

Days and ways in old Boston.

144 p.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Rossiter, William S. (William Sidney), 1861-1929, ed.

GUSN: 149615

Call Number: Stacks F73.44.R83

Old home week [by] James Ball Naylor; illustrations by William Kirkpatrick & others.

[96] p. incl. front., illus., plates. 23 x 18 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Naylor, J. B. (James Ball), 1860-1945.

GUSN: 150571

Call Number: Stacks PS3527.A92 O5 1907

Ever New England; photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, with an introduction by Donald Moffat.

7 p. ¾., [274] p. of illus. 21 x 17 cm.

Date: [1944]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 150572

Call Number: Stacks F9.C45

Colonial houses, Philadelphia, pre-revolutionary period, by Philip B. Wallace; with measured drawings by M. Luther Miller; introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer.

6 p. ¾., 248 p. of illus. front. 33 cm.

Date: [c1931]

Creators: Wallace, Philip B. Miller, M. Luther.

GUSN: 150573

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.P5 W3

The adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the revolutionary war.

vi, [7] 240 p. : 8 pl. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Fox, Ebenezer, 1763-1843.

GUSN: 150574

Call Number: Stacks E275.F792 1838

Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by Clara Endicott Sears.

xiii, 298 p. illus., facsims., front., music, plates, ports. 20 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Sears, Clara Endicott, 1863- comp.

GUSN: 150575

Call Number: Stacks BX9766.S4

The communistic societies of the United States; from personal visit and observation: including detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian, and other existing societies; their religious creeds, social practices, numbers, industries, and present condition.

439 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901.

GUSN: 150576

Call Number: Stacks HX653.N8 1962

Preliminary report on the eighth census. 1860. By Jos. C. G. Kennedy, superintendent.

xvi, 294 p. 23 1/2 cm.

Date: 1862.

Creators: Kennedy, J. C. G. (Joseph Camp Griffith), 1813-1887. United States. Census Office. 8th census, 1860.

GUSN: 150577

Call Number: Stacks HA201.1860.A2

The cottage cyclopedia of history and biography. A copious dictionary of memorable persons, events, places, and things, with notices of the present state of the principal countries and nations of the known world, and a chronological view of American history. By Ed. M. Pierce.

2 p. l., [iii]-v p., 1 l., 1004 p. front. (ports.) illus. 25 cm.

Date: 1867.

Creators: Pierce, Ed. M. (Edward M.)

GUSN: 150578

Call Number: Stacks D9.P54

Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; printed to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims; issued by the State Street Trust Company.

2 v. fronts., illus., plates. 26 cm.

Date: 1920-21.

Creators: Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955. State Street Trust Company, Boston.

GUSN: 150579

Call Number: Stacks F4.S79 v.1 (and 3 more)

An atlas of old New Haven, or, "The nine squares" as shown on various early maps. Compiled by Dean B. Lyman, jr.

[24] p. incl. 10 maps. 29 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Lyman, Dean B. (Dean Belden), 1896-

GUSN: 150580

Call Number: Ovr. F104.N6 L9

The Chesapeake bay country, by Swepson Earle.

510, [2] p. incl. col. front., plates (part col.) ports., map (facsim.) col. fold. map. 26 cm.

Date: 1923.

Creators: Earle, Swepson.

GUSN: 150581

Call Number: Stacks F187.C5 E2

Picturesque America; or, The Land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, caänons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. With illustrations on steel and wood, by eminent American artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant.

2 v. fronts., illus., plates. 34 cm.

Date: [c1872-74]

Creators: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, ed. Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890.

GUSN: 150582

Call Number: Stacks E168.B892 v.1 (and 1 more)

The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge, for the year 1856.

376 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1855.

GUSN: 150583

Call Number: Stacks AY64.A43 1856

The architectural heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915, by Antoinette F. Downing and Vincent J. Scully, Jr.

xvi, 526 p. illus., maps, plans. 29 cm.

Date: [1967]

Creators: Downing, Antoinette Forrester. Scully, Vincent Joseph, 1920- joint author.

GUSN: 150584

Call Number: Stacks NA735.N54 D6 1967

Newport preserv'd : architecture of the 18th century / Desmond Guinness, Julius Trousdale Sadler, Jr.

152 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1982.

Creators: Guinness, Desmond. Sadler, Julius Trousdale.

GUSN: 150585

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.N67 G8 1982

Oldport days. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. With ten heliotype illustrations, from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work.

4 p. l., [11]-268 p. front., plates. 19.5 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.

GUSN: 150586

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 H6

Newport illustrated, in a series of pen & pencil sketches. By the editor of the Newport Mercury ...

110 p. front., illus., plates. 19 cm.

Date: [c1854]

Creators: Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894.

GUSN: 150587

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 M3

Reminiscences of Newport / by George Champlin Mason.

407 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1884.

Creators: Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894.

GUSN: 150588

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 M37 1884a

Sketches of Newport and its vicinity; with notices respecting the history, settlement and geography of Rhode Island. Illustrated with engravings.

213 p. front., plates. 20 cm.

Date: 1842.

Creators: Cahoone, Sarah S.

GUSN: 150589

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 C123

Historic spots in Newport / by Edith May Tilley.

16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1914.

Creators: Tilley, Edith May

GUSN: 150590

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T4

Newport, Block Island and Narragansett Pier : a brief history and tourists' guide to points of interest / John F. Murphy.

111 p. : ill. ; 15 cm.

Date: c1903.

Creators: Murphy, John F.

GUSN: 150591

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 M87 1903

Trinity church in Newport, Rhode Island; a history of the fabric, by Norman Morrison Isham.

xi, 111 p. front., illus. (incl. plans) plates, diagrs. 27 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864-

GUSN: 150592

Call Number: Stacks NA5235.N67 T7

Redwood Library and Athenµum, Newport, Rhode Island.

58 p. illus. (on lining-papers) 20 cm.

Date: [1948]

Creators: Roberts, Arthur S.

GUSN: 150593

Call Number: Stacks Z733.N538 R4

An illustrated history of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and vicinity : a narrative of the growth and evolution of the community / by Robert Grieve.

509 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Grieve, Robert.

GUSN: 150594

Call Number: Stacks F89.P3 G75 1897

Bi-centenary of the burning of Providence in 1676. Defence of the Rhode Island system of treatment of the Indians, and of civil and religious liberty. An address delivered before the Rhode Island historical society, April 10th, 1876, by Zachariah Allen, LL. D.

34 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Allen, Zachariah, 1795-1882.

GUSN: 150595

Call Number: Stacks E78.R4 A4

Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre.

63, [1] p. : ill., col. pl., facsims., map. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1910.

Creators: Barker, Henry Ames, 1866-1929.

GUSN: 150596

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 B27

The Providence oath of allegiance and its signers, 1651-2 / by Richard Le Baron Bowen.

x, 92 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1943.

Creators: Bowen, Richard LeBaron.

GUSN: 150597

Call Number: Stacks F82.B67

The civic and architectural development of Providence, 1636-1950.

320 p. illus., maps. 29 cm.

Date: [1957]

Creators: Cady, John Hutchins, 1881-

GUSN: 150598

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 C143

Providence in colonial times. With an introduction by J. Franklin Jameson.

xix, 392 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910.

GUSN: 150599

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 K49 1912

Official chronicle and tribute book of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ... / compiled by L.H. Wheeler.

159 p. : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Wheeler, Lucia Hammond. Providence (R.I.). Tercentenary Commission.

GUSN: 150600

Call Number: Stacks F79.P956

Annual Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners to the General Assembly at its January Session, A.D. ... / Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners.

v. : ill. ; 23-28 cm.

Creators: Rhode Island. Metropolitan Park Commission.

GUSN: 150601

Call Number: Stacks SB482.R4 B6 1906 (and 3 more)

The meeting house of the First Baptist church in Providence; a history of the fabric, by Norman M. Isham. Issued by the Charitable Baptist Society on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the house, May twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and seventy-five.

xiii, 33 p. illus., plates, plans. 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Isham, Norman Morrison, 1864- Charitable Baptist Society.

GUSN: 150602

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 I7

Historical catalogue of the members of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island / compiled and edited by Henry Melville King, with the valuable aid of Charles Field Wilcox.

189 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: King, Henry Melville. Wilcox, Charles Field, 1844 or 5-1905.

GUSN: 150603

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 P93

Historical catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1904.

xii, 896 p. 25 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Vaughan, Mary Drew, ed. Brown University.

GUSN: 150604

Call Number: Stacks LD635.5 1905

The pageant of Benefit street down through the years, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, illustrated by the author.

7 p. l., 17-143, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1945.

Creators: Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, 1887-

GUSN: 150605

Call Number: Stacks F89.P9 S82

History of the town of Smithfield [R.I.] from its organization, in 1730-1, to its division, in 1871, comp. in accordance with the votes of the towns of Smithfield, North Smithfield, Lincoln and Woonsocket, R.I., by Thomas Steere.

8 p. ¾., 230 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Steere, Thomas.

GUSN: 150606

Call Number: Stacks F89.S6 S8

A farther brief and true narration of the great swamp fight in the Narragansett country, December 19, 1675 / written a few days later, and first printed at London in February, 1676 ; now reproduced for the honour of those who won and lost, and for the instruction and edification of a later generation met to commemorate those of their own blood who fought on that or other days, in a general convention of the Society of Colonial Wars held at Providence on May 17 & 18, 1912.

12 p. : facsim. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1912]

Creators: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150607

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.F29

Proceedings at the dedication of a tablet to the memory of Major Samuel Appleton, November 3, 1916.

25 p. 2 pl. (incl. front.) 24 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Rhode Island Historical Society.

GUSN: 150608

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.A49

A record of the ceremony and oration on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument commemorating the Great Swamp fight, December 19, 1675, in the Narragansett country, Rhode Island; erected by the societies of colonial wars of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, October 20, 1906.

68 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1855-1918, comp. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

GUSN: 150609

Call Number: Stacks E83.67.S67

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