Historic New England

Resident and business directory of Rockland and Hanover, Mass. for 1898 : containing a complete resident, street and business directory, town officers ...

192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: A.E. Foss.

GUSN: 154303

Call Number: Stacks F74.R63 R47

Resident and business directory of Rockland, Hanover and Norwell, Mass., 1907 / compiled and published by A.E. Foss and Co.

269 p. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: A.E. Foss.

GUSN: 154304

Call Number: Stacks F74.R63 R4

History of the title of the so-called Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury : a brief history of the property and its owners from the earliest colonial grant to the present owners / Richard W. Hale; George A. Moriarty

iv, 59 p. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1920]

Creators: Hale, Richard W. Moriarty, George A.

GUSN: 154305

Call Number: Stacks F74.R9 H35 1920

Haverhill Mass. : an industrial and commercial center.

260 p. : ill.

Date: 1889.

GUSN: 154306

Call Number: 85M Stacks F74.H5 H38 c.1 (and 1 more)

Directory of Hingham and Hull, Mass. : Illustrated.

199 p. : ill.

Date: 1894.

GUSN: 154307

Call Number: Stacks F74.H6 D57 1894

Resident and business directory of Hingham and Cohasset, Mass.

199 p.

Date: 1920.

GUSN: 154308

Call Number: Stacks F74.H6 R4

The Lakeville, Freetown and Berkley, Mass. directory, 1911-12.

124 p. : ill.

Date: 1911.

GUSN: 154309

Call Number: Stacks F74.L19 L3

A copy of epitaphs in the old burying-grounds of Lexington, Massachusetts / Francis H. Brown.

169 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1905.

Creators: Brown, Francis H.

GUSN: 154310

Call Number: Stacks F74.L67 B76

Resident and business directory of Lexington.

110 p. : ill.

Date: 1906.

GUSN: 154311

Call Number: Stacks F74.L67 R4 1906

Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society : with some of the papers read at its meetings 1905-1910.

191 p. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Lexington Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 154312

Call Number: Stacks F74.L67 L39

Annual reports for the year 1892 : Lynn.

v. : ill.

Date: 1893.

GUSN: 154313

Call Number: Stacks F74.L98 A5 1892

The Lynn directory containing the city record, the names of the citizens and a business directory / George Adams.

224 p. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1855.

Creators: Adams, George.

GUSN: 154314

Call Number: Stacks F74.L98 A31

The Old school boys association of Boston.

39 p. 16 cm.

Date: 1898.

Creators: Old School Boys Association (Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 154315

Call Number: Stacks L161.B7 G5

Art gems from the American Architect.

[60] p. : ill.

Date: c1886.

GUSN: 154316

Call Number: Rare NA2610.A88 1886

Traitâe d'architecture : avec des remarques et des observations tres-utiles pour les jeunes gens, qui veulent s'appliquer áa ce bel art / par Seb. Le Clerc.

194 p. : 181 plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1714.

Creators: Le Clerc, Sâebastien, 1637-1714.

GUSN: 154317

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.L46

A short treatise on forest-trees, aquaticks, ever-greens, fences and grass-seeds / by the Right Honorable the late Earl of Haddington.

viii, [48] p. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1765.

Creators: Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, 6th earl of, 1680-1735. Reid, John. The Scots gardener for the climate of Scotland ... Claridge, John. Shepherd of Banbury's rules. Claridge, John. The country kalendar, or the shepherd of Banbury's observations.

GUSN: 154318

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.S3 R35 1766

The country kalendar, or, The shepherd of Banbury's observations / John Claridge.

[40] p. ; 17 cm.

Date: 17--?]

Creators: Claridge, John. Reid, John. The Scots gardener for the climate of Scotland ... Claridge, John. Shepherd of Banbury's rules. Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, 6th earl of, 1680-1735. A short treatise on forest-trees, aquaticks, ever-greens, fences and grass-seeds.

GUSN: 154319

Call Number: Rare Browne SB466.S3 R35 1766

Five orders of architecture / Andrea Palladio.

66 p. : [31] plates ; cm.

Date: 1729.

Creators: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580. Revesi Bruti, Ottavio. Malie, Thomas.

GUSN: 154320

Call Number: Rare NA2517.P35 1729

The practical builder : or, workman's general assistant ... / William Pain.

3 p. ¾., [83] plates (incl. diagrs) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1789.

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 154321

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P185 1789

A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices / by William Pain.

30 p. ; cm.

Date: 18--?]

Creators: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

GUSN: 154322

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.P3 1805

Ferme ornâee : or, rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs ... / by John Plaw.

13 p., : ill., [38] plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1800.

Creators: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5-1820.

GUSN: 154323

Call Number: Rare Browne NA8302.P7 1800

The builder's dictionary : containing an explanation of the terms made use of in architecture ; also the terms of art used by workmen concerned in building / by William Salmon.

[27] p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1755.

Creators: Salmon, William, ca. 1703-1779. Salmon, William, ca. 1703-1779. Palladio Londinensis, or, the London art of building ... London : S. Birt, 1755. Hoppus, E. (Edward), d.1739.

GUSN: 154324

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2515.S15 1755

Rules of work : originally adopted by the carpenters of the town of Boston, in 1774.

9 p. ; 29 cm. Bound with Civil architecture, or, A complete theoretical and practical system of building, 192 p., 97 leaves of plates

Creators: Shaw, Edward.

GUSN: 154325

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2522.S45 1832

Architecture. Part I, Ancient architecture.

vi, 74 p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Howe, Hezekiah, 1775-1838.

GUSN: 154326

Call Number: Rare NA261 H69 1831

Râesidences de souverains : paralláele entre plusieurs râesidences de souverains de France, d'Allemagne, de Suáede, de Russia, d'Espagne, et d'Italie / Charles Percier et Pierre Franðcois Lâeonard Fontaine.

vii, 354 p. : plates, plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 1833.

Creators: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838. Fontaine, Pierre Franðcois Lâeonard, 1762-1853.

GUSN: 154327

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7710.P5 1833

Dining out in Boston :a culinary history /James C. O'Connell.

304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Over the years, Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O'Connell, in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinar...

Creators: O'Connell, James C., author.

GUSN: 359343

Call Number: Stacks GT2853.U5 O25 2017

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

The daguerreian annual 1995 :official yearbook of the Daguerreian Society /Laurie A. Bary, editor.

xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1995.

Creators: Bary, Laurie A., editor. Daguerreian Society.

GUSN: 359404

Call Number: Ref. TR365.D34 1995

Rare light :J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882-1919 /edited by Anne E. Dawson ; with essays by Charles Burlingham, Jr., Rachel Carley, and Jamie H. Eves.

xvi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., Rare Light is a collection of essays exploring little known facets of the life and career of a major American Impressionist painter. J. Alden Weir (18521919) painted some of his finest canvases while living in Windham in eastern Connecticuts picturesque Quiet...

Creators: Dawson, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1956- editor.

GUSN: 359405

Call Number: Stacks ND237.W4 R37 2016 c.1 (and 1 more)

The last of the hill farms :echoes of Vermont's past /Richard W. Brown ; with a foreword by Thomas P. Slayton.

133 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Creators: Brown, Richard, 1945- author, photographer.

GUSN: 359406

Call Number: Stacks F50.B749 2018

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