Historic New England

Historic house museums in the United States and the United Kingdom :a history /Linda Young.

xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "This book addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, the author identifies a typology that casts light on what they were intended to repre...

Creators: Young, Linda, 1953 June 16- author.

GUSN: 361627

Call Number: Stacks E159.Y685 2017

John F. Kennedy in New England /Raymond P. Sinibaldi.

95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Creators: Sinibaldi, Raymond, author.

GUSN: 361628

Call Number: Stacks E842.S534 2017

Work sights :the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America /Vanessa Meikle Schulman.

xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Creators: Schulman, Vanessa Meikle, 1981- author.

GUSN: 361629

Call Number: Stacks N72.I53 S38 2015

New Hampshire women farmers :pioneers of the local food movement /Helen Brody ; photographs by Leslie Tuttle.

xv, 127 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 18 cm

Creators: Brody, Helen, author.

GUSN: 361630

Call Number: Stacks HD6077.2.U62 N43 2015

The center of the world :regional writing and the puzzles of place-time /June Howard.

xix, 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm, Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be ...

Creators: Howard, June, author.

GUSN: 361631

Call Number: Stacks PS169.R45 H59 2018

The Lowells of Massachusetts :an American family /Nina Sankovitch.

xii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm, "The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scien...

Creators: Sankovitch, Nina, author.

GUSN: 361632

Call Number: Stacks F63.S27 2017

Stonlea :a timeworn, gilded age survivor transformed /Peter W. Clement, Victoria Chave Clement.

xx, 135 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "A Peabody & Stearns summer house in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. The story of a time-worn Gilded Age survivor transformed into a handsome and sustainable year round, family house."

Creators: Clement, Peter W., 1946- Clement, Victoria Chave, 1949-

GUSN: 361633

Call Number: Stacks NA737.P6 C59 2014

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

E.A. Bartlett's Nantasket Beach :a pictorial introduction to Hull, Massachusetts during the 1890s /photographs by Edrick A. Bartlett ; text by Dennis R. Means.

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Date: Ã1995.

Creators: Bartlett, Edrick A. Means, Dennis R., 1950- Means Library.

GUSN: 327320

Call Number: Stacks F74.N15 B37 1995

The elegant homes of America 100 years ago /compiled by Skip Whitson.

2 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Whitson, Skip.

GUSN: 327330

Call Number: Stacks NA7127.E55x

Songs of the old town,by Walter J. Phelan ...

41 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portrait) 22 cm

Date: 1930.

Creators: Phelan, Walter Jordan.

GUSN: 327331

Call Number: Stacks PS3531.H25S66

The Paul Revere album,by Howard W. Spurr; containing a complete description of Goss' "Life of Col. Paul Revere," and more than twenty engravings with descriptions of incidents in the life of the hero of the "Midnight ride," April 18, 1775.

43, [1] pages illustrations (including portraits) 22 cm

Date: 1897.

Creators: Spurr, Howard W.

GUSN: 327332

Call Number: Stacks F69.R44

Country by-ways /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

viii, 127 pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Date: 1981.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.

GUSN: 327365

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.C6 1981

The day it rained fish :& other encounters of a landscape architect /Sidney Nichols Shurcliff ; [editor, Alice W. Shurcliff].

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1991.

Creators: Shurcliff, Sidney Nichols, 1906- Shurcliff, Alice W.

GUSN: 327366

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.S58 S48x 1991

Rites of way :the politics of transportation in Boston and the U.S. city /Alan Lupo, Frank Colcord, Edmund P. Fowler.

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: 1971.

Creators: Lupo, Alan, author. Colcord, Frank C. (Frank Carlton), 1925- author. Fowler, Edmund P., 1942- author.

GUSN: 327367

Call Number: Stacks HE355.L84 1971

Mary Pratt Sears, 1864-1928;letters to her friends.Edited by Annie Lyman Sears. With an introduction by Ella Lyman Cabot.

xii, 429 pages frontispiece 24 cm

Date: 1932.

Creators: Sears, Mary Pratt, 1864-1928. Sears, Annie Lyman, editor.

GUSN: 327368

Call Number: Stacks PS2797.S56 Z74 1932

Gropius baut privat :seine Wohnhäuser in Dessau (1925/26) und Lincoln, Mass (1938).

119 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Kraft, Sabine.

GUSN: 327373

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA1088.G85 K73 1997

A white heron ;and, the Hiltons' holiday /by Sarah Orne Jewett ; illustrations by Charles and Marcia Oakes Woodbury from Deephaven, 1893.

59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Date: 1979.

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Donahue, Marie.

GUSN: 327374

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.W472 1979

Descendants of John Cogswell :the Cogswell family, 1635-1996 /by Donald James Cogswell.

xxxv, 1044 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm, John Cogswell was born in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England in 1592 and died in Ipswich, Mass. in 1669. Ca. 1615, he married the Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Thompson-vicar of Westbury from 1603-1623. The...

Date: Ã1998.

Creators: Cogswell, Donald James.

GUSN: 327375

Call Number: Stacks CS71.C64 1998

The bicentennial of the pipe organ in Vermont, 1814-2014 :the 2013 atlas of the Organ Historical Society /Stephen L. Pinel ; with the assistance of Edgar A. Boadway and Len Levasseur.

xxix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2013.

Creators: Pinel, Stephen L. Boadway, E. A. (Edgar Atkinson), 1936- Levasseur, Len. Organ Historical Society.

GUSN: 327379

Call Number: Stacks ML561.7.V5 P56 2013

Cephas Thompson's Bristol, Rhode Island :patronage and subjects, 1805-1821 /Keith Arbour.

176 pages ; 23 cm

Creators: Arbour, Keith, author.

GUSN: 327380

Call Number: Stacks ND237.T552 A73 2017

Ultimate visual dictionary.

640 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm, Color photographs and detailed text describe more than 50,000 terms and 270 major entries on everything from the prehistoric earth and the sciences to sports, art, and music.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

GUSN: 327476

Call Number: Coll PE1629.D67 1994

Croquêt :the laws and regulations of the game, thoroughly revised, with a description of the implements, etc., etc. ; illustrated with diagrams and engravings /by John Jacques.

30, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: 1865.

Creators: Jacques, John.

GUSN: 327559

Call Number: Stacks GV931.J36 1865

Remembering the Revolution :memory, history, and nation making from independence to the Civil War /edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., In today s United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted,...

Creators: McDonnell, Michael A.

GUSN: 328099

Call Number: Stacks E209.R39 2013

Opening the Museum :history and strategies toward a more inclusive institution /Patricia A. Steuert, with Aylette Jenness and Joanne Jones-Rizzi.

76 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm

Date: Ã1993.

Creators: Steuert, Patricia A. Jenness, Aylette. Jones-Rizzi, Joanne. Children's Museum of Boston. Rockefeller Foundation.

GUSN: 328100

Call Number: Stacks AM101.B7256 S74 1993

A tourist's New England :travel fiction, 1820-1920 /Dona Brown, editor.

viii, 217 pages ; 22 cm., Stories and novel excerpts on the attractions and perils of vacationing in 19th century New England. Included are writers who helped to create the myths and those who exposed them.

Date: Ã1999.

Creators: Brown, Dona.

GUSN: 328101

Call Number: Stacks PS648.N38 T68 1999

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