Historic New England

The iconic jersey :baseball x fashion /by Erin R. Corrales-Diaz.

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm, "The Iconic Jersey: Baseball x Fashion explores the design and aesthetics of the iconic baseball jersey both on and off the baseball field. Featuring over 35 historic and contemporary jerseys and baseball-inspired fashion, this ground-breaking volum...

Creators: Corrales-Diaz, Erin R., author, curator. Worcester Art Museum,

GUSN: 357436

Call Number: Stacks GV867.3.C67 2021

Dressing up :the women who influenced French fashion /Elizabeth L. Block.

282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm, "A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Block, Elizabeth L., author.

GUSN: 357437

Call Number: Coll GT610.B56 2021

The Oak Park studio of Frank Lloyd Wright /Lisa D. Schrenk.

xiii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, "Lisa Schrenk offers a detailed assessment of Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in Oak Park, Illinois. She focuses on the educational atmosphere of Wright's office in the context of his developing design ideology, revealing three phases as Wright transitioned from ...

Creators: Schrenk, Lisa Diane, author.

GUSN: 357447

Call Number: Stacks NA737.W7 S294 2021

How football became football :150 years of the game's evolution /Timothy P. Brown.

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, How Football Became Football traces football's evolution from a version of rugby played before a handful of friends to a spectacle played in packed stadiums before television audiences of 100 million or more. Organized by era, How Football Became Football show...

Creators: Brown, Timothy P. (Timothy Patrick)

GUSN: 357448

Call Number: Stacks GV950.B76 2020

Turbulent years in Chelsea :documenting life in the '70s and '80s /Arnie Jarmak and Joshua Resnek.

142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Jarmak, Arnie, photographer. Resnek, Joshua, author.

GUSN: 357449

Call Number: Stacks F74.C5 J37 2020

A story of Maine in 112 objects: from prehistory to modern times /edited by Bernard P. Fishman, Director, Maine State Museum ; published in association with the Maine State Museum.

448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm, "This groundbreaking book features 112 essays and hundreds of photographs that highlight the best of the museum's collections - ranging from a walrus skull to a woman's World War II welding outfit. Included as well is the fascinating story of the museum itsel...

Creators: Fishman, Bernard P., editor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357450

Call Number: Stacks F21.S76 2018

Connecticut architecture :stories of 100 places /Christopher Wigren, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Creators: Wigren, Christopher, author.

GUSN: 357451

Call Number: Stacks NA730.C8 W54 2019

The atlas of Boston history /edited by Nancy S. Seasholes.

x, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 37 cm

Creators: Seasholes, Nancy S., editor.

GUSN: 357452

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.3.A853 2019 (and 1 more)

The paintings of J.O.J. Frost :an American story /by Bethe Lee Moulton.

xiii, 159 pages : illustrations; maps ; 24 x 27 cm

Creators: Moulton, Bethe Lee, author. Moulton, Priscilla L., dedicatee.

GUSN: 357453

Call Number: Coll ND237.F767 M68 2019 (and 1 more)

Treasures afoot :shoe stories from the Georgian era /Kimberly S. Alexander.

x, 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm, In 'Treasures Afoot', Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fort...

Creators: Alexander, Kimberly S., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357454

Call Number: Stacks TS1000.A376 2018 c.1 (and 1 more)

Summer suffragists :woman suffrage activists in Scituate, Massachusetts /Lyle Nyberg.

272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "Scituate, Massachusetts, was the summer home of a surprising number of nationally recognized leaders of the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote. Why did they stay there, and how did they fight for the vote? These questions are addressed in this book....

Creators: Nyberg, Lyle, author.

GUSN: 357729

Call Number: JK1911 M4 N83 2020

Maine quilts :250 years of comfort and community /Laureen A. LaBar ; with essays by Lynne Z. Bassett and Pamela Weeks.

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "The history of quilting in Maine is a story of community and Maine State Museum curator Laurie LaBar coaxes stories out of objects and uses those stories to enlighten, entertain, and to bring new voices to Maine history"-- Provided by publishe...

Creators: LaBar, Laureen A., author. Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961- contributor. Weeks, Pamela, contributor. Maine State Museum,

GUSN: 357733

Call Number: Stacks NK9112 L27 2021 c1 (and 1 more)

Joseph Hodges Choate;memorial addresses delivered before the Century association, January 19, 1918.

56 pages 2 portrait (including frontispiece) 23 cm

Date: 1918.

Creators: Century Association (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 357735

Call Number: Stacks KF373 C4 C4

Silk stocking mats :hooked mats of the Grenfell Mission /Paula Laverty.

x, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hook...

Date: 2005.

Creators: Laverty, Paula.

GUSN: 357737

Call Number: Coll NK2813 A3 N47 2005

Lost Wonderland :the brief and brilliant life of Boston's million dollar amusement park /Stephen R. Wilk.

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm, "If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby-the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened ...

Creators: Wilk, Stephen R., author.

GUSN: 357739

Call Number: Stacks GV1853.3 M42 W668 2020

The world of Plymouth Plantation /Carla Gardina Pestana.

viii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm, "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a...

Creators: Pestana, Carla Gardina, author.

GUSN: 357741

Call Number: Stacks F68 P395 2020

The truth about baked beans :an edible history of New England /Meg Muckenhoupt.

345 pages ; 24 cm, ""The Truth about Baked Beans" is an edible history of New England"-- Provided by publisher., Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learne...

Creators: Muckenhoupt, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 357753

Call Number: Stacks TX715.2 N48 M83 2020

Forever struggle :activism, identity, & survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880-2018 /Michael Liu.

xii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm, "Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the...

Creators: Liu, Michael, 1948- author.

GUSN: 357755

Call Number: Stacks F73.9.C5 L58 2020

Inventing Boston :design, production, and consumption /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

viii, 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and ...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 357778

Call Number: Stacks NK838.B67 C665 2019

The greatest beach :a history of the Cape Cod National Seashore /Ethan Carr.

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Creators: Carr, Ethan, 1958- author.

GUSN: 357779

Call Number: Stacks F72.C3 C37 2019

Joiner's work /by Peter Follansbee.

xiv, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Forget what you think about 17th-century New England furniture. It's neither dark nor boring. Instead, it's a riot of geometric carvings and bright colors--all built upon simple constructions that use rabbets, nails and mortise-and-tenon joints. Peter F...

Creators: Follansbee, Peter, author.

GUSN: 357780

Call Number: Coll TT195.F65 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Shaker vision :seeing beauty in early America /Joseph Manca.

x, 391 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm, "The Shakers are known for self-denial and austerity in everyday living and their material world, as embodied by the heavenly simplicity and purity of their chairs and blanket chests. Yet the believers also enjoyed a diversity of visual ...

Creators: Manca, Joseph, 1956- author.

GUSN: 357781

Call Number: Stacks BX9789.A47 M36 2019

Votes for women! :a portrait of persistence /Kate Clarke Lemay ; with Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault.

xi, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, map ; 28 cm, "Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Int...

Creators: Lemay, Kate Clarke, 1978- author. Goodier, Susan, author. Jones, Martha S., author. Tetrault, Lisa (Lisa Marguerite), author. National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution),

GUSN: 357786

Call Number: Stacks KF4895.L46 2019

Newport :the artful city /John R. Tschirch.

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 25 cm, This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists ...

Creators: Tschirch, John R., author.

GUSN: 357788

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 T73 2020

Rather elegant than showy :the classical furniture of Isaac Vose /Robert D. Mussey Jr., Clark Pearce.

x, 293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 x 25 cm, "Isaac Vose was well known in his day among style-conscious Bostonians, his name synonymous with furniture of the highest quality and advanced design. His shop, the "first on Boston Neck," was in a prominent location and served ...

Creators: Mussey, Robert D., author. Pearce, Clark, author.

GUSN: 357791

Call Number: Coll NK2439.V37 M87 2018 (and 1 more)

A history of Boston in 50 artifacts /Joseph M. Bagley.

xii, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "An illustrated history of the city of Boston, as seen through fifty objects of archaeological significance, ranging from chamber pots to cowbells"--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Bagley, Joseph M., 1985- author.

GUSN: 357793

Call Number: Stacks F73.39.B34 2016

The Saturday Evening Girls Club /Jane Healey.

242 pages ; 21 cm, For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other n...

Creators: Healey, Jane (Freelance journalist), author.

GUSN: 357795

Call Number: Stacks PS3608.E2354 S28 2017

At home :historic houses of Central and Western Massachusetts /Beth Luey.

ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "With its rich history of prominent families, Massachusetts is home to some of the most historic residences in the country. In the central and western half of the Commonwealth, these include Edith Wharton's The Mount, the Salisbury Mansion in Worcester, Herman...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 357847

Call Number: Stacks F65.L838 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

In search of Amos Clough /Robert W. Averill.

viii, 370 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm + 1 stereoscope., "The story of Amos F. Clough, a pioneering photographer of the White Mountains, has rested in obscurity for a century and a half. Born and raised before the Civil War in the rural New Hampshire town of Warren, Cl...

Creators: Averill, R. W. (Robert White), 1950- author. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Journal of events &c whilst on the mountain. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Photographs.

GUSN: 357849

Call Number: Stacks TR140.C56 A94 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

At first light :two centuries of Maine artists, their homes and studios /Anne Collins Goodyear, Frank H. Goodyear III, Michael K. Komanecky ; foreword by Stuart Kestenbaum ; photography by Walter Smalling Jr.

238 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Chronicles twenty-six ... artists of the last two hundred years who have lived and worked in Maine. Published to coincide with the state's bicentennial in 2020, the volume considers the significant contributions artists have made to a deeper and more profoun...

Creators: Goodyear, Anne Collins, author. Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- author. Komanecky, Michael, author. Kestenbaum, Stuart, writer of foreword. Smalling, Walter, photographer.

GUSN: 357851

Call Number: Stacks N6530.M2 G66 2020 c.1 (and 2 more)

Visionary New England /edited by Sarah Montross ; with contributions by Sam Adams [and seven others].

147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, New England has a rich history of spiritual, mystical, and utopian strivers. Their visionary schemes range from nineteenth-century Transcendentalist experiments in communal living at Brook Farm and Fruitlands to the Harvard Project's LSD research, led ...

Creators: Montross, Sarah J., editor. Adams, Sam, contributor. deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,

GUSN: 357853

Call Number: Stacks N515.V57 2020

Rescued from oblivion :historical cultures in the early United States /Alea Henle.

x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnes...

Creators: Henle, Alea R., author.

GUSN: 357855

Call Number: Coll E172.H45 2020

Shaker fever :America's twentieth-century fascination with a communitarian sect /William D. Moore.

xi, 430 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm., "Americans were enthralled by the Shakers in the years between 1925 and 1965. They bought Shaker furniture, saw Shaker worship services enacted on Broadway, sang Shaker songs, dressed in Shaker-inspired garb, collected Shaker artifacts, and restor...

Creators: Moore, William D., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357858

Call Number: Stacks NX504.M66 2020

How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940 /Thomas C. Hubka.

xxvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- author.

GUSN: 357861

Call Number: Stacks HD6983.H83 2020

Ancestors and descendants of Robert Alfred Sands & Kate Van Volkenburgh :enduring relations /compiled by Henry B. Hoff ; with contributions and recollections by Nancy Sands Maulsby ; edited by Penelope L. Stratton.

xv, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps (some color) ; 27 cm, "When Robert Alfred Sands married Kate Van Volkenburgh in 1890, two longtime New York families were joined. Sons of the immigrant James Sands arrived in New York in the 1690s. Lambert Van Valkenburch arrived ...

Creators: Hoff, Henry B. (Henry Bainbridge), author. Maulsby, Nancy Sands, author. Stratton, Penny, editor. New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 357864

Call Number: Stacks CS71.S22 2018

Daughters of painted ladies :America's resplendent victorians /Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen ; photographs by Douglas Keister.

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, Describes and illustrates the effects of the San Francisco-based Colorist movement on Victorian-style buildings around the United States.

Date: Ã1987.

Creators: Pomada, Elizabeth. Larsen, Michael, 1941-

GUSN: 359123

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.P65 1987

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house /by Eric Hodgins ; illustrated by William Steig.

237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "Problems of a New Yorker building a house in the suburbs." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation., An $11,000 farm house becomes a dream house costing $56,263.97.

Creators: Hodgins, Eric, 1899-1971, author. Steig, William, 1907-2003, illustrator.

GUSN: 359124

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O1714 M4

Women's views :the narrative stereograph in nineteenth-century America /Melody Davis.

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 3D viewer.

Creators: Davis, Melody D., 1959- author.

GUSN: 359125

Call Number: Stacks TR780.D38 2015

Jewels :a secret history /Victoria Finlay.

xvi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, A history of gemstones brings together the lore and legends of fabulous jewels, from ancient times to the present day, offering tales, trivia, and secrets about diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, opals, and other precious and semi-precious stones.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Finlay, Victoria.

GUSN: 359208

Call Number: Coll TS740.F56 2006

Tiara /Diana Scarisbrick.

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm, The tiara has played a glittering role in the lives of the elegant and extravagant -- from the doe-eyed Audrey Hepburn in the film classic Roman Holiday to generations of England's royal family -- representing the height of sophisticated glamour. Worn ...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Scarisbrick, Diana. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 359209

Call Number: Coll NK7423.S28 2000

Love entwined :the curious history of hairwork in America /Helen Sheumaker.

xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "In the largely forgotten craft of hairwork, practiced widely in nineteenth-century America, the hair of loved ones - living and deceased - was woven into jewelry, wall decorations, and keepsakes. Rings, bracelets, lockets, and brooches were set with metalwork ...

Date: 2007.

Creators: Sheumaker, Helen.

GUSN: 359210

Call Number: Coll NK6076.S54 2007

Bedazzled :5,000 years of jewellery : the Walters Art Museum /Sabine Albersmeier.

64 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Albersmeier, Sabine.

GUSN: 359211

Call Number: Coll NK7302.B35 W353 2005

The complete poetical works of Edna Dean Proctor.

xxvi, 411 pages frontispiece (portrait) 21 cm

Date: 1925.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923.

GUSN: 359212

Call Number: Stacks PS2665.A2 1925

Songs of America, and other poems /by Edna Dean Proctor.

viii, 123 pages ; 20 cm

Date: 1905.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923. Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359213

Call Number: Stacks PS2667.S63

The glitter & the gold :fashioning America's jewelry /Ulysses Grant Dietz [and others].

189 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm, Most of the exhibits were made in or near Newark, but are drawn frrom various public and private American collections, including the Newark Museum itself.

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Dietz, Ulysses G. (Ulysses Grant), 1955- Newark Museum.

GUSN: 359214

Call Number: Coll TS723.G55 1997

Earl Pardon's portable art :jewelry & design /with essays by Sarah Schleuning, Berry Lowden Perkins.

100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Pardon, Earl B., designer. Schleuning, Sarah, author. Perkins, Berry Lowden, author. High Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359215

Call Number: Coll NK7398.P37 A4x 2015

John Rogers :American stories /edited by Kimberly Orcutt ; contributions by Michael Clapper, Melissa Dabakis, Jessica Fracassini, Leslie Ransick Gat, David Jaffee, Michael Leja, Leo G. Mazow, Kirk Savage, Thayer Tolles, and Erin Toomey.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Date: 2010x.

Creators: Rogers, John, 1829-1904. Orcutt, Kimberly. Clapper, Michael Roy. Dabakis, Melissa. Fracassini, Jessica. Gat, Leslie Ransick. Jaffee, David. Leja, Michael, 1951- Mazow, Leo G. Savage, Kirk, 1958- Tolles, Thayer. Toomey, Erin. Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University) New-York Historical Society. Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

GUSN: 359235

Call Number: Coll NB237.R65 A4 2010x

Benjamin Franklin in terra cotta :portrait medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont /Richard Margolis.

232 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Date: 2015.

Creators: Margolis, Richard.

GUSN: 359236

Call Number: Coll NB623.N56 $b A4 2015

The paintings of Moholy-Nagy :the shape of things to come /Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng, James Merle Thomas, and Friederike Waentig.

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted thro...

Creators: Feinberg, Larry J., contributor. Kahng, Eik, 1963- contributor. Thomas, James M. (James Merle), contributor. Waentig, Friederike, contributor. Tsai, Joyce, 1977- Shape of things to come. Santa Barbara Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359237

Call Number: Coll ND522.5.M59 $b A4 2015

Heywood-Wakefield modern furniture :identification and value guide /Steve Rouland & Roger Rouland.

352 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1995.

Creators: Rouland, Steven. Rouland, Roger W.

GUSN: 359238

Call Number: Coll NK2439.H45 A4 1995 c.1 (and 1 more)

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