Historic New England

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)

Moholy-Nagy :future present /edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P.B. Vail ; With contributions by Julie Barten, Sylvie Pénichon, and Carol Stringari, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Carol S. Eliel, Jennifer King, Olivier Lugon, Elizabeth Siegel, Karole P.B. Vail, and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

322 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, "The pioneering artist László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) worked across a range of art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, film, advertising, and theater. This publication, which offers a fresh and extensive examination of ...

Creators: Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- editor. Eliel, Carol S., 1955- editor. Vail, Karole P. B., editor. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359239

Call Number: Coll N6822.5.M63 $b A4 2016

The Bounty :the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander.

491 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm, An account of the events surrounding the conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talen...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Alexander, Caroline, 1956-

GUSN: 359240

Call Number: Coll DU20 $b.A53 2003

Beyond midnight :Paul Revere : September 2019 - October 2020 New-York Historical Society, Worcester Art Museum, Concord Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art /Jennifer L. Anderson, Lauren B. Hewes, Robert Martello, Nancy Siegel, Nan Wolverton ; ed. by Lauren B. Hewes and Nan Wolverton.

101 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Date: Ã2019.

Creators: Anderson, Jennifer L., 1966- Hewes, Lauren B. Martello, Robert, 1968- Siegel, Nancy. Wolverton, Nan. American Antiquarian Society.

GUSN: 359241

Call Number: Coll N6537.R437 $b A4 2019

Homer at the beach :a marine painter's journey, 1869-1880 /William R. Cross ; prelude by John Wilmerding.

xi, 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 x 30 cm

Creators: Cross, William R., 1959- Wilmerding, John, author. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359242

Call Number: Coll ND237.H7 A4 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Those misunderstood Puritans /Samuel Eliot Morison ; with an introduction by Francis J. Bremer.

31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1992.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 359243

Call Number: Coll F7 $b.M84 1992

Calvin in America /International Museum of the Reformation ; Texts, Gabriel de Montmollin ; with the collaboration of Jacques Légeret, Samantha Reichenbach and Hanna Woodhead ; English translation, Hanna Woodhead.

152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Creators: Montmollin, Gabriel de. Légeret, Jacques. Reichenbach, Samantha. Woodhead, Hanna. Musée international de la Réforme (Geneva, Switzerland)

GUSN: 359244

Call Number: Coll BX9415 $b.C35 2020

Majolica mania :transatlantic pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915 /Susan Weber ; with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin, and Laura Microulis, editors.

3 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm, "The first comprehensive study of one of the most significant innovations in nineteenth-century ceramics, this three-volume exhibition catalogue considers the principal designers and manufacturers of majolica, the ware's broad dissemination, and its...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor. Arbuthnott, Catherine, editor. Briggs, Jo, editor. Hughes, Eleanor, 1971- editor. Martin, Earl (Earl James), 1974- editor. Microulis, Laura, editor. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.),

GUSN: 359245

Call Number: Coll NK4320.U5 $b M35 2020

Gem identification made easy :a hands-on guide to more confident buying & selling /Antoinette L. Matlins & A.C. Bonanno.

xvii, 270 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1989.

Creators: Matlins, Antoinette Leonard. Bonanno, Antonio C.

GUSN: 359246

Call Number: Coll QE392.M33 1989

Form & function :American modernist jewelry, 1940-1970 /Marbeth Schon.

256 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, This book features the work of 96 jewellers, whose jewellery was experimental and inspired originality in successive generations. It includes work by Alexander Calder, Harry Bertoia, Arline Fisch, Albert Paley, and Peter Macchiarini.

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Schon, Marbeth.

GUSN: 359247

Call Number: Coll NK7312.S338 2008

Miller's costume jewelry /Judith Miller.

256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, A comprehensive introduction to costume jewelry, from ancient times to the present. Includes information on the designers and their inspirations, as well as showing hundreds of beautiful designs and the marks to look for.

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Miller, Judith, 1951-

GUSN: 359248

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 M555 2010

The Napier Co. idefining 20th century American costume jewelry /Melinda Lewis, with Henry Swen.

xxix, 1011 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The Napier Jewelry book is a visual encyclopedia of Napier Costume Jewelry. It tells the heretofore untold and phenomenal story of The Napier Co. inception, development, flowering, and ultimate success. It chronicles the history of its manage...

Date: 2013.

Creators: Lewis, Melinda L. Swen, Henry.

GUSN: 359249

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 L49 2013

Radical tradition :American quilts and social change /Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art.

99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts...

Creators: Applebaum, Lauren, author. Toledo Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359250

Call Number: Coll TT835 $b.A67 2020

American costume jewelry :art & industry, 1935-1950 /Roberto Brunialti & Carla Ginelli Brunialti.

2 volumes : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Brunialti, Roberto. Brunialti, Carla Ginelli.

GUSN: 359251

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 B786 2008

Village Hall, historic structure report :Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York /by Stacey A. Matson [and others].

xi, 163 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1988.

Creators: Matson, Stacey A. Cultural Resources Center (United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office). Building Conservation Branch. United States. National Park Service.

GUSN: 359272

Call Number: Coll F129.S6124 $b V55 1988

Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York /Louise M. DeCesare.

viii, 68 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Date: 1990.

Creators: DeCesare, Louise M., author. United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office. Division of Cultural Resources.

GUSN: 359273

Call Number: Coll F129.O98 $b A7 1990

Gadsby's Tavern Museum :historic furnishing plan /Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Ellen Kirven Donald.

xv, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Date: 1980.

Creators: Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. Donald, Ellen Kirven.

GUSN: 359274

Call Number: Coll F234.A3 $b S69 1980

Rapidan Camp :"the Brown House," Shenandoah National Park /by Laurel A. Racine.

2 volumes in 1 (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: [2001]

Creators: Racine, Laurel A. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359275

Call Number: Coll E802 $b.R33 2001

Historic furnishings report, Rotch-Jones-Duff House /Janice Hodson.

2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm., Greek revival style mansion in New Bedford Mass., built in 1834.

Date: 2005-[2008]

Creators: Hodson, Janice. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359276

Call Number: Coll F74.N5 $b H74 2005

Alex Katz /edited by Vincent Katz ; essay by Carter Ratcliff.

412 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, The definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development o...

Creators: Katz, Alex, 1927- artist. Ratcliff, Carter, contributor. Katz, Vincent, 1960- editor.

GUSN: 359336

Call Number: Coll ND237.K33 A85 2020

Martha's Vineyard through time :tourism and the cleansing sea /A. C. Theokas.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Creators: Theokas, Andrew C., author.

GUSN: 359337

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 $b T45 2021

Ghosts of Plymouth, Massachusetts /Darcy H. Lee.

125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Lee, Darch H., author.

GUSN: 359338

Call Number: Stacks BF1472.U6 $b L436 2017

Diseño y cultura :una introducción : desde 1900 hasta la actualidad /Penny Sparke.

285 p. : il. ; 24 cm., El diseño constituye hoy uno de los principales motores de la economía cultural así como la más poderosa herramienta para reconfigurar una de las preocupaciones clave de la contemporaneidad: la identidad individual y social. Vivimos en una sociedad modelada en gran medida a tr...

Date: D.L. 2010.

Creators: Sparke, Penny.

GUSN: 359339

Call Number: Stacks NK1390.S6318 2010

Building old Cambridge :architecture and development /Susan E. Maycock and Charles M. Sullivan.

xxi, 944 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 27 cm, Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly as the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then became the site of Harvard College. This abundant...

Creators: Maycock, Susan E., 1943- author. Sullivan, Charles, 1940- author. Cambridge Historical Commission.

GUSN: 359340

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C28 M39 2016

White on white :churches of rural New England /photographs by Steve Rosenthal ; essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg ; afterword by Robert Campbell.

135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cm

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Rosenthal, Steve, 1940- Klinkenborg, Verlyn.

GUSN: 359341

Call Number: Stacks NA5215 $b.R67 2009

Maine photography :a history, 1840-2015 /Libby Bischof, Susan Danly, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Bischof, Libby, author. Danly, Susan, author. Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948- author.

GUSN: 359342

Call Number: Stacks TR24.M2 M36 2016

The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson :volume 1: 1740-1766 /John W. Tyler, editor [and] Elizabeth Dubrulle, associate editor.

xlvi, 625 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Creators: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780. Tyler, John W., 1951- Dubrulle, Elizabeth. Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 294259

Call Number: Stacks F61.C71 v. 84

The maker's hand :American studio furniture, 1940-1990 /Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Gerald W.R. Ward, and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer ; with the assistance of Pat Warner.

168 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., "The Maker's Hand is one of the first books about the studio furniture movement, and no doubt the most authoritive. Written by two leading experts in the field, it details the history and development of studio furniture, from its origins in post-World War II America through i...

Date: c2003.

Creators: Cooke, Edward S. Ward, Gerald W. R. L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 297634

Call Number: Coll. NK2408.C58 2003

American chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale,by John T. Kirk.

208 pages illustrations 32 cm

Date: 1972.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 297635

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.K5 1972

Portfolio of photographs of the World's Fair.

16 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 29 x 35 cm.

Date: 1893-1894.

GUSN: 302360

Call Number: Ovr. T500 .C1 P67

In plain sight :discovering the furniture of Nathaniel Gould /Kemble Widmer and Joyce King ; with essays by Glenn Adamson, Daniel Finamore, Dean Lahikainen and Elisabeth Garrett Widmer.

pages cm

Creators: Widmer, Kemble, author. Hidden in plain sight. Gould, Nathaniel, 1731-1781. Furniture.

GUSN: 303518

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.G68 A4 2014 c.1 (and 2 more)

Culinary ephemera :an illustrated history /William Woys Weaver.

xiii, 299 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm., "This collection, a trove of designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels,...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Weaver, William Woys, 1947-

GUSN: 303561

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2853.U5 W43 2010

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