Historic New England

Jewelry by Ed Wiener :retrospective exhibition, December 1, 1988-January 7, 1989 /essays by Milton W. Brown and Blanche R. Brown.

72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Date: Ã1988.

Creators: Brown, Milton W. (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998. Wiener, Ed. Brown, Blanche R.

GUSN: 323596

Call Number: Coll. NK7398.W42

Heywood-Wakefield /Harris Gertz.

160 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Date: Ã2001.

Creators: Gertz, Harris.

GUSN: 323597

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.H45

Heywood-Wakefield modern furniture /Steve Rouland and Roger Rouland.

352 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm, This stylish collector's guide is the first to acknowledge the highly collectible 'modern' furniture made by the Heywood-Wakefield company. Vintage advertisements, photos, and catalogs are featured in addition to the identification section. Virtually every piece of...

Date: 1995.

Creators: Rouland, Steven. Rouland, Roger W.

GUSN: 323601

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

America's treasures at Bayou Bend :celebrating fifty years /Michael K. Brown ; introduction by Jonathan Leo Fairbanks ; with contributions by Emily Ballew Neff ; photographs by Miguel Flores-Vianna.

xviii, 157 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm

Date: 2007.

Creators: Brown, Michael K. (Michael Kevin), 1953-2013. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

GUSN: 323602

Call Number: Coll. NK805

Marimekko :in patterns.

245 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm, "Internationally beloved Finnish design brand Marimekko's iconic patterns grace home decor, apparel, and accessories, and have informed and influenced tastemakers worldwide for over half a century. Richly illustrated with photographs and prints both classic a...

GUSN: 323603

Call Number: Coll. NK1035.F53

"Homes of Character: One-hundred Designs" by Robert L. Stevenson (1923)

No description

GUSN: 324179

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7201.S83 1923 (and 1 more)

Color confidence :the digital photographer's guide to color management /Tim Grey ; [foreword by Katrin Eismann].

252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Grey, Tim.

GUSN: 326356

Call Number: IT TR267.G75 2004

Code/Words :technology and theory in the museum /edited by Ed Rodley, Robert Stein and Suse Cairns

265 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Creators: Rodley, Ed, editor. Stein, Robert J., editor. Cairns, Suse, editor.

GUSN: 326362

Call Number: IT AM7.C63 2015

Real world color management :industrial-strength production techniques /Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting.

xxvi, 534 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, Professional strategies for getting accurate, consistent color reproduction; clear, readily understandable explanations of color, color theory, and the color-management problem; expert advice on building and fine-tuning ICC profiles for input, di...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Fraser, Bruce, 1954-2006. Murphy, Chris (Christopher Martin) Bunting, Fred.

GUSN: 326363

Call Number: IT T385.F6915 2003

Worcester's architectural neighborhoods /by Anthony R. Taylor. Photographs by Joseph A. Reney, Jr.

57 pages : illustrations, plans, photographs ; 28 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Taylor, Anthony R.

GUSN: 326366

Call Number: Stacks F74.W9 T38 1984

Arthur A. Shurcliff :design, preservation, and the creation of the Colonial Williamsburg landscape /Elizabeth Hope Cushing.

xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Creators: Cushing, Elizabeth Hope, 1945- author. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 326368

Call Number: Stacks SB469.385.M37 C87 2014 C87 2014

Through time's window into ... yesterday's Marshfield :a pictorial journey ... as viewed through the photographer's lens /by Robin A. Mitchell ; with historical information provided by Janet E. Peterson.

vii, 108 pages : maps, illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: Mitchell, Robin A. (Local historian), author. Peterson, Janet E., contributor.

GUSN: 326370

Call Number: Stacks F74.M4 M58 2014

Voices from the back stairs :interpreting servants' lives at historic house museums /Jennifer Pustz.

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Pustz, Jennifer.

GUSN: 326371

Call Number: Stacks E159 P867 2010

Heritage planning :principles and process /by Harold Kalman.

xvi, 344 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, "Heritage Planning : Principles and Process provides a comprehensive overview of heritage planning as an area of professional practice. The book first addresses the context and principles of heritage planning, including land-use law, planning practice, a...

Creators: Kalman, Harold, 1943-

GUSN: 326374

Call Number: Stacks CC135 K36 2014

Stoughton in the 20th century /David Allen Lambert and Brenda Lea Lambert.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Lambert, David Allen, author. Lambert, Brenda Lea, author.

GUSN: 326375

Call Number: Stacks F74.S886 L37 2015

New England bound :slavery and colonization in early America /Wendy Warren.

xi, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm, Wendy Warren links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, demonstrating how New England's economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. Warren documents how Indians were system...

Creators: Warren, Wendy (Professor of history), author.

GUSN: 326376

Call Number: Stacks E446 W26 2017

Picturing Thoreau :Henry David Thoreau in American visual culture /Mark W. Sullivan.

xxi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Sullivan, Mark W., 1949- author.

GUSN: 326377

Call Number: Stacks PS3053 S85 2015

Practical lawn-tennis.By James Dwight.

xvi, 168 pages frontispiece, 26 plates, diagrams 18 cm

Date: 1893.

Creators: Dwight, James, 1852-1917.

GUSN: 326383

Call Number: Stacks GV995 D94

Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel :Baldwin, Crocker, Haupt, Doane, Shanly /Cliff Schexnayder, PE.

xvi, 645 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm, [This book] traces the interactions between those who worked to build the Hoosac Tunnel of Massachusetts and those who struggled mightily to hinder its construction. The driving force behind the Tunnel and a thread through the book is Alvah Crocker, pape...

Creators: Schexnayder, Cliff J., author.

GUSN: 326384

Call Number: Stacks TF238.H66 S34 2015

Sargent :portraits of artists and friends /Richard Ormond with Elaine Kilmurray ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Erica E. Hirshler, Marc Simpson and H. Barbara Weinberg.

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm, Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a...

Creators: Ormond, Richard, author. Kilmurray, Elaine, author. Fairbrother, Trevor J., author. Gallati, Barbara Dayer, author. Hirshler, Erica E., author. Simpson, Marc, author. Weinberg, H. Barbara (Helene Barbara), 1942- author. Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925. Paintings. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

GUSN: 326385

Call Number: Coll ND237.S3 A4 2015

Kittery /Andrea F. Donaghue.

127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Donaghue, Andrea F., author.

GUSN: 326389

Call Number: Stacks F29.K6 D66 2016

Fashion :a timeline in photographs : 1850 to today /Caroline Rennolds Milbank ; foreword by Harold Koda.

319 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm, A definitive and beautifully illustrated visual history of fashion from one of America's premiere fashion historians, Caroline Rennolds Milbank. This unrivaled and exceptional fashion resource is an immersive 150-year visual odyssey which tr...

Creators: Milbank, Caroline Rennolds, author. Koda, Harold, writer of foreword.

GUSN: 326464

Call Number: Stacks TR679.F36 2015

Revealing women's history :best practices at historic sites : featuring five case studies /edited by Heather Huyck & Peg Strobel.

79 pages : illustartions, portraits ; 28 cm

Creators: Huyck, Heather Ann, editor. Strobel, Margaret, 1946- editor.

GUSN: 326484

Call Number: Stacks E159 .H88 2011.H88 2011

Music :a supreme endowment for the home /by Henry Knott.

25 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: 1926.

Creators: Knott, Henry.

GUSN: 326485

Call Number: Stacks ML1050.K66

Archer Gibson :a biography in letters and articles /James Lewis.

113 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Creators: Lewis, James, 1944- author.

GUSN: 326486

Call Number: Stacks ML416.G53 L49 2016

American gastronomy :an illustrated portfolio of recipes and culinary history /Louis Szathmáry.

185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Date: [1974]

Creators: Szathmáry, Louis.

GUSN: 326487

Call Number: Stacks TX715.S9863

Vastly more than brick & mortar :reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s /Kathryn Brush.

231 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm, "This generously illustrated book - a history of the formative years of the Fogg Art Museum - discusses the educational and cultural philosophies behind its conception, its historical, social, and economic circumstances, its teaching activities, its art collections...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Brush, Kathryn. Fogg Art Museum.

GUSN: 326507

Call Number: Stacks N527.A86 2003

Traditional tole painting :with authentic antique designs and working diagrams for stenciling and brush-stroke painting, adaptable for trays, boxes, chests, chairs, and other furniture /Roberta Ray Blanchard.

95 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm, Instructions for authentic antique designs and working diagrams for stenciling and brush-stroke painting adaptable for trays, boxes, chests, chairs and other furniture.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Blanchard, Roberta Ray.

GUSN: 326508

Call Number: Stacks TT385.B58 1977

A history of metals in colonial America /James A. Mulholland.

xiv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1981.

Creators: Mulholland, James A., 1935-

GUSN: 326509

Call Number: Stacks TN623.M84

Archives of desire :the queer historical work of New England regionalism /J. Samaine Lockwood.

xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-...

Creators: Lockwood, J. Samaine, author.

GUSN: 326510

Call Number: 85M Stacks PS243.L594 2015

The Baker estate, or Ridge Hill Farms of Needham /by Leslie G. Crumbaker for the Needham Historical Society.

vi, 65 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Date: 1975.

Creators: Crumbaker, Leslie G. Needham Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 326517

Call Number: Stacks F74.N3 C78 1975

William De Morgan and his wife /by A.M.W. Stirling ; with a preface by Sir William Richmond.

403 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits

Date: 1922.

Creators: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina)

GUSN: 326518

Call Number: Stacks PR6007.E5 Z85 1922a

American rooms in miniature /by Mrs. James Ward Thorne.

78 pages, plates ; 19 cm

Date: [Ã1941]

Creators: Thorne, James Ward, Mrs.

GUSN: 326519

Call Number: Stacks NK2135.T48

Change at Park Street Under;the story of Boston's subways[by] Brian J. Cudahy.

63 pages illustrations 23 cm

Date: [1972]

Creators: Cudahy, Brian J.

GUSN: 326520

Call Number: 85M Stacks HE4491.B78 C83 1972

A deaf artist in early America :the worlds of John Brewster, Jr. /Harlan Lane.

xvi, 190 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm, The extraordinary and untold story of John Brewster Jr., a preeminent Deaf American artist. Until his death 150 years ago, John Brewster Jr. was one of the most prominent portrait painters in America. Born deaf in 1766, his hauntingly beautiful port...

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Lane, Harlan, 1936- Brewster, John, 1766-1854.

GUSN: 326534

Call Number: Little ND237.B8634 L36 2004

A laboratory for art :Harvard's Fogg Museum and the emergence of conservation in America, 1900-1950 /Francesca G. Bewer.

365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm, "[Book title] is the first book to explore the crucial role the Fogg [Museum] played in the evolution of conservation in the United States and abroad. It traces the efforts of staff and students who developed protocols for the treatment and documentati...

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Bewer, Francesca G. (Francesca Gabrielle), 1960-

GUSN: 326535

Call Number: Stacks N8560.5.B49 2010

W.M. Hunt's talks on art.[Comp. by] Helen M. Knowlton.

75 pages 24 cm

Date: 1879, Ã1875.

Creators: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879. Knowlton, Helen M. (Helen Mary), 1832-1918, compiler.

GUSN: 326536

Call Number: Stacks ND1135.H9

A catalogue of [American] silhouettes [cut] by August Edouart [between 1839-1849].

183 pages : illustrations ; cm (8vo)

Date: [1914]

Creators: Vernay, Arthur S., compiler.

GUSN: 326537

Call Number: Rare NC910.5.E36 V476 1914

Contemporary color guide :how controlled color contributes to modern living ; with 30 plates in color /by Elizabeth Burris-Meyer, consulting colorist.

ix, 30 pages, 30 pages of plates : color samples ; 24 cm

Creators: Burris-Meyer, Elizabeth, 1899- , author. William Helburn, Inc.,

GUSN: 326791

Call Number: Stacks NK2113.B8

Nantucket /Robert Gambee.

352 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm

Date: Ã1993.

Creators: Gambee, Robert.

GUSN: 326793

Call Number: Stacks F72.N2.G16 1993

Heavenly mansions and other essays on architecture /John Summerson ; [with a foreword by Kent Bloomer].

xviii, 253 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm, A classic of architectural history and theory, Heavenly Mansions interprets architecture as a reflection of the age in which it flowers, and it traces the alternating themes of fantasy and functionalism as exemplified in various styles and in the works ...

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

GUSN: 327296

Call Number: Stacks NA2563.S8 1998

Silent city on a hill :landscapes of memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery /Blanche Linden-Ward.

xi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Date: 1989.

Creators: Linden, Blanche M. G., 1946-

GUSN: 327297

Call Number: 85M Stacks F73.61.M8 L56 1989

A Usable Past :American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art /edited by Lauren Lessing.

vii, 163 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, Produced and circulated outside the elite sphere of fine art, folk art appealed to the middle-class Americans who were eager to express their identities, interests, and social ambitions through these decorative, vernacular objects. This ca...

Creators: Lessing, Lauren, editor. Colby College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 327298

Call Number: Stacks NK805.U83 2016

Audacious :the fine art of wood : the Montalto Bohlen Collection /[Dean Lahikainen, Verlyn Klinkenborg].

199 p. : col. ill., port. ; 32 cm.

Date: c2015.

Creators: Lahikainen, Dean T., 1951- Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Peabody Essex Museum.

GUSN: 327299

Call Number: Coll NK9603.B64 A93x 2015

Wet sneakers & nets :The Children's School of Science in Woods Hole, Massachusetts celebrates 100 years of summer science education, 1913-2013 /edited by Charlotte Emans Moore with assistance from Mary Jo Benjamin ; essays by William D. Moore, Jennifer S. Gaines, Charlotte Emans Moore ; foreword by Elizabeth (Bettina) Corning Dudley ; appendices by Jeremy Korr ; photography assistance by Elizabeth Forbes Armstrong ; design and production by Barbara Mathews Whitehead.

xvii, 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Moore, Charlotte Emans, editor. Children's School of Science (Woods Hole, Mass.),

GUSN: 311081

Call Number: Stacks F64.M66 2013

Childe Hassam :At Dusk, Boston Common at Twilight /Erica E. Hirshler.

74 pages : illustrations (some color), plan, portrait, 21 cm

Creators: Hirshler, Erica E. Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 311082

Call Number: Coll. ND237.H345 A68 2015

Boston in the golden age of spiritualism :séances, mediums & immortality /Dee Morris.

126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Morris, Dee.

GUSN: 311083

Call Number: Stacks BF1261.2.M67 2014

Charles J. Connick :his education and his windows in and near Pittsburgh /Albert M. Tannler.

xii, 164 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Tannler, Albert M.

GUSN: 311084

Call Number: Coll. NK5398.C66 T36 2008

Drawn with spirit :Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection /Lisa Minardi ; with an interview by Ann Percy.

ix, 363 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, Among the most beloved forms of American folk art, fraktur is a Germanic tradition of decorated manuscripts and printed documents noted for its use of bold colors and whimsical motifs. This publication makes a landmark contribution to the study ...

Creators: Minardi, Lisa, 1983- author. Percy, Ann, interviewer. Philadelphia Museum of Art,

GUSN: 311085

Call Number: Coll. ND3035.P4 M56 2015

American decoration :a sense of place /Thomas Jayne.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm, Interior designer and decorative arts and antiques expert Thomas Jayne follows up his essential 2010 compendium "The Finest Rooms in America" with this new collection of his own work. Thomas Jayne possesses a unique dual vision--he keeps one eye focused on th...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Jayne, Thomas.

GUSN: 311086

Call Number: Coll. NK2004.3.J39 A4 2012 (and 1 more)

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