Historic New England

Reimagining historic house museums :new approaches and proven solutions /edited by Kenneth C. Turino and Max A. van Balgooy.

vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., Drawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques drawn from such wide-ranging sources as non-profit management, business strategy, and software d...

Creators: Turino, Kenneth, editor. Balgooy, Max van, editor.

GUSN: 361634

Call Number: Stacks E159.R45 2019

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

The Country club, 1882-1932,by Frederic H. Curtiss and John Heard.

x, 213 pages including plans frontispiece, plates, portraits 27 cm

Date: 1932.

Creators: Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1869-1967. Heard, John, Jr., 1889-

GUSN: 361791

Call Number: Stacks GV969.B7

Hand Mirror

Long, oval wooden hand mirror with delicate stringing around the glass; pine handle tapers and is pierced and has two round inlaid bits of ebony; seems to be a woman's.

Date: 1790-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: ebony (wood), mirrors, pine (wood), glass (material)

GUSN: 2782

Accession Number: 1991.1232

Blanket Chest

Rectangular bright aqua blue-painted pine blanket chest; overhanging hinged lid above projecting front and rear panels; inset sides with bracket feet; nailed and glued construction.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: nailing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2783

Accession Number: 1991.1233

Footstool

Rectangular overhanging top; shaped and carved apron with carved bootjack ends; painted dark green and decorated in yellow with a pinstripe reserve enclosing leafy vine and the inscription "Frances Jane Fernald" upon the top; the front side apron is carved with pinwheels and hearts, heightened with ...

Date: 1805-1815

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2784

Accession Number: 1991.1234

Comb-back Windsor Side Chair

Comb-shaped crestrail over seven rod-turned spindles and baluster-turned stiles on shaped seat; raised on four splayed and bulbous turned legs; side stretchers and medial stretcher; painted black with yellow-gold pinstriping.

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

Material: hickory (wood), painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2785

Accession Number: 1991.1235

Washstand

Pine washstand painted bright yellow with dark and lighter brown outlining; painted motif of a potted, flowering plant on a tripod on the splashboard; squared galleried top; shaped splashboard with corner shelves and sloped sides around a double-top; cut-out bowl holder with solid removable top; fou...

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, gluing, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2786

Accession Number: 1991.1236

Chest of Drawers, or Case of Boxes

Red-painted pine "box of drawers" or "case of boxes" as they were known; small chest form with 6 drawers- 3 rows and 2 columns; pine knobs on a molded plinth base; large dovetails at top.

Date: 1750-1775

Maker: unknown

Material: dovetail joints, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2787

Accession Number: 1991.1237

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape;...

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2788

Accession Number: 1991.1238AB

Chamber Pot

Pearlware child's chamber pot ; squat, irregular bulbous body on low, flared foot; flat overhanging rim and scroll handles; decorated with hand-painted underglaze blue floral decoration and blue bands to rim and foot.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: painting (image-making), hand-painted, pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2789

Accession Number: 1991.1239

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.

Date: 1834-1848

Maker: Phillips, George (Maker)

Material: ironstone (pottery), throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2790

Accession Number: 1991.1240

Chamber Pot

Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conf...

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), transfer printing, underglazing

GUSN: 2791

Accession Number: 1991.1241

Chamber Pot

A Pearlware chamber pot of squat globular form with shoulder to body handle and a flat overhanging rim. It is decorated with an underglaze blue freehand decoration of a bold, stylized scrolling vine between blue ribbed bands around the sides. There is a leaf decoration to the rim and handle and it b...

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), molding (forming), painting (coating), pearlware, throwing (pottery technique), underglazing

GUSN: 2792

Accession Number: 1991.1242

Doll's Canopy Bed

A tall-post canopy bed with a flat rectangular canopy resting on four pencil-turned posts and pencil-turned tapering lower posts, as well as a shaped rectangular headboard. There are four rails and it is all red-stained.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), staining

GUSN: 2793

Accession Number: 1991.1243

Doll Mattress

Of rectangular form, white linen with hand-sewn seams and stuffed with old blankets.

Date: 1840-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), sewing (process)

GUSN: 2794

Accession Number: 1991.1244

Doll Bed Canopy and Headcloth

A canopy for a flat-top doll's bed; an off-white cotton printed with delicate floral sprigs in brown, red, green and pink. All sides are ornamented with a cotton tape border with yellow and red wool swags. The headcloth is of the same fabric and is tacked into place.

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process)

GUSN: 2795

Accession Number: 1991.1245AB

Doll Blanket

Of square form, patterned with a field of a white lined grid over a medium blue grid on a butternut ground, and enclosed by a plaid border in like colors.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), weaving

GUSN: 2796

Accession Number: 1991.1246

Mourning Picture for Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett

Of rectangular format, of a woman bent over a neoclassical sarcophogus resting on claw feet on a rusticated base, in a wooded landscape with a foreground stream. There are trees behind and on the side and over the tomb, as well as a vine of roses. She is draped in classical style- white dress and a...

Date: 1795-1812

Maker: Bartlett, Laura, 1799-1872 (Artist) Miss Rowson's Academy for Young Ladies

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2797

Accession Number: 1991.1248

Folio Lithograph

Colored lithograph of oblong rectangular format. It shows a small sailing schooner flying the American flag, with six men onboard, rounding the Eastern Point Light. Beside the lighthouse there stand two men waving hats and a woman waving a handkerchief. It has a plain black frame with thinly painted...

Date: 1873

Maker: Haskell & Allen (Maker)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 2798

Accession Number: 1991.1249

Watercolor

Of rectangular format, of a landscape with large trees and rolling hills. On the banks of a pond is a rectangular tomb with an urn on top, adorned with a garland of roses. A cactus plant is on the forground rocks. It is possible that the gold frame with rope molding is original. [see photo neg.#4751...

Date: 1818-1820

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2799

Accession Number: 1991.1250

Watercolor

A watercolor memorial painting, showing in the center a rectangular tomb surmounted by an urn and a wreath of roses. At left is a woman in mourning in a grey dress and scarf. To her left is a leafy tree with a bold trunk painted in oils, and two houses- one white and one yellow. At her right stands ...

Date: 1818-1825

Maker: Jarvis Newell, Mary (Maker)

Material: ink, oil paint (paint), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2800

Accession Number: 1991.1251

Watercolor

An almost square format, still life with a fluted blue bowl sprinkled with mica. It is filled with stenciled fruit of indeterminate kinds in yellow, pink and purple shades. In an original red-painted frame and glass.

Date: Sept. 1827

Maker: Stearns, Mary Ann H. (Maker)

Material: ink, mica (mineral), paper (fiber product), watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 2801

Accession Number: 1991.1252

Sewing Box

Paint-decorated sewing box of low rectangular form, the hinged top is painted with a scenic land and seascape view, enclosed in a yellow oval border and black ground. The sides are yellow with red outline and also with long green ovals with curvilinear freehand designs in white. It has a metal inter...

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: Miller, J. (Maker)

Material: nailing, painting (coating), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 2802

Accession Number: 1991.1253

Covered Basket

Covered basket, of flattened round form. Of fine, tightly woven straw with black and reddish Native American design woven into the sides and small black design on the rim on the flat fitted cover.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: straw (plant material), weaving

GUSN: 2803

Accession Number: 1991.1254AB

Spice Box

Bentwood oval spice box, of Shaker style, straight cut laps attached with copper tacks and tiny nails. It is stamped in the center of the lid, and impressed in black. The maple sides are darkened with age, probably from an old stain or paint on the lid.

Date: 1825-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: bentwood, copper (metal), impressing, maple (wood), pine (wood), stamping (forming), tacking

GUSN: 2804

Accession Number: 1991.1255AB

Seated Young Lady

Small rectangular format of a young woman in a low-cut figure dress, sitting on a red sofa with a draped red curtain in back of her. She hold a gold-tooled leather book in her right hand. There is a band of canary yellow with trompe l'acie detailing, making a frame. Oil on a mahogany panel.

Date: 1825-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: mahogany (wood), oil paint (paint), panels (wood), panel paintings (painting by form)

GUSN: 2805

Accession Number: 1991.1256

Box

Painted and decorated pine knife or candle box, of long rectangular form. Has pin-hinged carved lid, wooden peg construction, painted with an allover grey-blue and paint-decorated with black freehand scrolling vine and sunburst designs on the top and three sides.

Date: 1775-1800

Maker: unknown

Material: metal, painting (coating), pine (wood)

GUSN: 2806

Accession Number: 1991.1257

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