Historic New England

Children in America : a study of images and attitudes : September 30, 1978-May 27, 1979, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia / by Rosamond Olmsted Humm.

72 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 25 cm.

Date: 1978.

Creators: Humm, Rosamond Olmsted. High Museum of Art.

GUSN: 153198

Call Number: Roth N7644.H84

Small antique furniture [by] Bernard and Therle Hughes.

219 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1968, c1958]

Creators: Hughes, G. Bernard (George Bernard), 1896- Hughes, Therle. joint author.

GUSN: 153199

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2240.H8 1968

Neat and tidy : boxes and their contents used in early American households / Nina Fletcher Little.

xviii, 205 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Little, Nina Fletcher, 1903-

GUSN: 153200

Call Number: Roth NK3665.L57 1980 (and 1 more)

Legend of the bushwhacker basket / by Martha Wetherbee and Nathan Taylor ; edited by Mary Lyn Ray.

64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Wetherbee, Martha. Taylor, Nathan. Ray, Mary Lyn.

GUSN: 153201

Call Number: Roth NK3649.5.W48 1986

Early furniture of Louisiana; text and catalogue by Jessie J. Poesch. Photos. by Betsy Swanson.

xviii, 85 p. illus. 28 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Poesch, Jessie J. Louisiana State Museum.

GUSN: 153202

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2435.L6 P6

Bandboxes and shopping bags : in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.

32 p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

GUSN: 153203

Call Number: Roth NK8643.3.C66 1978

English cutlery, sixteenth to eighteenth century, by J. F. Hayward.

18 p. 24 plates 21 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Hayward, J. F. (John Forrest), 1916- Victoria and Albert Museum

GUSN: 153204

Call Number: Roth NK8310.V5

The doll. Photos. by H. Landshoff.

143 p. illus. (part col.) 30 cm.

Date: [1973]

Creators: Fox, Carl, 1913- Landshoff, Herman, 1905- illus.

GUSN: 153205

Call Number: Roth NK4893.F69 1973

Baltimore painted furniture, 1800-1840. Introd. and commentary by William Voss Elder, III.

132 p. illus. 23 x 28 cm.

Date: [1972]

Creators: Elder, William Voss. Baltimore Museum of Art.

GUSN: 153206

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2438.B3 E4

The lambent flame / John D. Keating.

123 p. : ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.

Date: 1974.

Creators: Keating, John D. (John Deakin)

GUSN: 153207

Call Number: Roth TH7910.K4

Turned on : decorative lamps of the fifties / Leland & Crystal Payton ; photographs by Leland Payton.

96 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1989.

Creators: Payton, Leland. Payton, Crystal.

GUSN: 153208

Call Number: Roth NK6196.P39 1989

Folk hearts : a celebration of the heart motif in American folk art / Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein.

x, 107 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1984.

Creators: Schaffner, Cynthia V. A. Klein, Susan, 1944-

GUSN: 153209

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK806.F64 1984

December 25th : the joys of Christmas past / Phillip Snyder.

xxi, 324 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Snyder, Phillip V., 1936-

GUSN: 153210

Call Number: Roth GT4986.A1 S68 1985

Victorian electroplate.

63 p. illus., facsims., port. 19 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Bury, Shirley.

GUSN: 153211

Call Number: Roth TS680.B86

The baskets of rural America / Gloria Roth Teleki.

xx, 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Teleki, Gloria Roth.

GUSN: 153212

Call Number: Roth TT879.B3 T44 1975 c.1 (and 1 more)

Period lighting / Stanley Wells.

166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Wells, Stanley.

GUSN: 153213

Call Number: Roth TH7703.W44 1975

An egg at Easter: a folklore study; foreword by Robert Wildhaber.

xxii, 423 p., 45 plates. illus. (some col.), facsim. 23 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Newall, Venetia.

GUSN: 153214

Call Number: Roth GR735.N4 1971b

The easy expert in American antiques : knowing, finding, buying, and restoring early American furniture / Moreton Marsh.

282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Marsh, Moreton.

GUSN: 153215

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2406.M395 1978

Five hundred years of technology in the home / Doreen Yarwood ; science consultant, John Yarwood.

184 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1983.

Creators: Yarwood, Doreen.

GUSN: 153216

Call Number: Roth TX298.Y38 1983

Making fire & light in the home pre-1820 / John Caspall.

278 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1987.

Creators: Caspall, John, 1931-

GUSN: 153217

Call Number: Roth TH7975.D8 C37 1987

The Eye of the beholder : fakes, replicas, and alterations in American art / contributors, Judith Bernstein ... [et al.] ; editor, Gerald W. R. Ward.

95 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1977.

Creators: Bernstein, Judith. Ward, Gerald W. R. Yale University. Art Gallery.

GUSN: 153218

Call Number: Roth/Coll. N6505.E88

Clean and decent : the fascinating history of the bathroom & the water closet, and of sundry habits, fashions & accessories of the toilet, principally in Great Britain, France, & America / by Lawrence Wright.

xii, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1960.

Creators: Wright, Lawrence, 1906-

GUSN: 153219

Call Number: Roth RA780.W7

The book of copper and brass.

96 p. 115 illus., 2 facsims., 2 ports. 26 cm.

Date: 1968.

Creators: Wills, Geoffrey.

GUSN: 153220

Call Number: Roth NK8100.W48

Christbaumschmuck : e. Buch fèur Sammler u. Liebhaber alter Dinge / Text, Eva Stille ; Foto u. Gestaltung, Ursula Pfistermeister.

206 p. : 537 ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Stille, Eva. Pfistermeister, Ursula, joint author.

GUSN: 153221

Call Number: Roth GT4988.S73

The American design adventure, 1940-1975 / Arthur J. Pulos.

vii, 446 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1988.

Creators: Pulos, Arthur J.

GUSN: 153222

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK1404.P85 1988

America at home : a celebration of twentieth-century housewares / by Victoria Kasuba Matranga with Karen Kohn.

208 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Matranga, Victoria Kasuba. Kohn, Karen. National Housewares Manufacturers Association.

GUSN: 153223

Call Number: Roth TX298.M38 1997

Furnishing the world : the East London furniture trade, 1830-1980 / by Pat Kirkham, Rodney Mace, Julia Porter.

vii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1987.

Creators: Kirkham, Pat. Mace, Rodney. Porter, Julia.

GUSN: 153224

Call Number: Roth HD9773.G73 L665 1987

Produce and conserve, share and play square : the grocer and the consumer on the home-front battlefield during World War II / edited by Barbara McLean Ward.

240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Ward, Barbara McLean. Strawbery Banke, Inc.

GUSN: 153225

Call Number: Roth D769.85.N26 P74 1994 c.1 (and 1 more)

Copycats & artifacts : 42 creative artisan projects to make / Marianne Ford, drawings by Anna Pugh.

96 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm., Instructions for making projects which are modeled on museum artifacts.

Date: 1986, c1983.

Creators: Ford, Marianne. Pugh, Anna, ill.

GUSN: 153226

Call Number: Roth TT160.F56 1986

French art of the eighteenth century / Achieved under the editorial supervision of Stâephane Faniel . . . with a panel of experts.

231 p. : ill. (part mounted, part col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: 1957.

Creators: Faniel, Stâephane, ed.

GUSN: 153227

Call Number: Roth/Coll. N6846.F365 1957

World furniture : an illustrated history / edited by Helena Hayward ; [by] Douglas Ash ... [et al.].

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Date: 1965.

Creators: Hayward, Helena. Ash, Douglas

GUSN: 153228

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2270.H3 1965

Country house floors, 1660-1850 : [exhibition] / Christopher Gilbert, James Lomax, Anthony Wells-Cole.

111 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Gilbert, Christopher. Lomax, James. Wells-Cole, Anthony. Leeds (England). City Art Gallery. Temple Newsam House.

GUSN: 153229

Call Number: Roth/Coll. NK2119.G55 1987 c.1 (and 1 more)

Dover Stamping Co., 1869; tinware, tin toys, tinned iron wares, tinners material, enameled stove hollow ware, tinners' tools and machines. Illustrated catalog and historical introd.

205, ix, [8] p. illus., port. 23 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Dover Stamping Company.

GUSN: 153230

Call Number: Roth/Coll. HD9539.T6U58 1869a

L. H. Mace & Co., 1883: Woodenware, meat safes, toys, refrigerators, children's carriages, and house furnishing goods; illustrated catalog and historical introduction.

68 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1971]

Creators: Mace (L. H.) & Company.

GUSN: 153231

Call Number: Roth/Coll. HD9773.U7 M32

Foodways in the northeast / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.

144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Benes, Peter. Benes, Jane Montague.

GUSN: 153232

Call Number: Roth F1.D82 1982 c.1 (and 1 more)

English regional chairs / Bernard D. Cotton.

511 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: Cotton, Bernard D.

GUSN: 153233

Call Number: Roth NK2715.C67 1990

American design ethic : a history of industrial design to 1940 / Arthur J. Pulos.

441 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Pulos, Arthur J.

GUSN: 153234

Call Number: Roth TS23.P84 1983

White linen; pointed collar, open front, sleeves and hem all trimmed with embroidered scalloped edges; broad self ties at neck; one set of cotton twill tape ties at middle; tape loop inside neck at back; raglan bell-shaped sleeves.

Date: 1855-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material)

GUSN: 875

Accession Number: 1969.6450

Dressing Sacque

White linen; pointed collar, open front, hem & sleeves all trimmed with embroidered scalloped edges; broad self ties at neck; 2 sets of cotton twill tape ties at middle; tape loop inside collar; raglan bell-shaped sleeves.

Date: 1855-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, stitching, linen (material)

GUSN: 876

Accession Number: 1969.6451

Bed Jacket

White sheer cotton; white floral lace band around neck; wide collar with white silk floral embroidery and edged with lace ruffle; body gathered to yoke; two mother-of-pearl buttons at yoke; bands of lace on either side of front opening, at center back and around hem; three rows of tucks above hem; b...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, silk (textile)

GUSN: 877

Accession Number: 1969.6453

Bed Jacket

White cotton; round collar trimmed with wide eyelet ruffle, also forming jabot at center front; four small mother-of-pearl buttons center front; body gathered to yoke with lace insert; triple pleats at center back; long bell-shaped sleeves trimmed with wide eyelet ruffle.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 878

Accession Number: 1969.6454

Bed Jacket

White sheer cotton; white floral lace band around neck; wide collar with white silk floral embroidery and edged with lace ruffle; body gathered to yoke; two mother-of-pearl buttons at yoke; bands of lace on either side of front opening, at center back, and around hem; three rows of tucks above hem; ...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering, silk (textile)

GUSN: 879

Accession Number: 1969.6455

Bed Jacket

White cotton; small pointed collar with embroidered scalloped edge; six vertical tucks on either side of front; three small mother-of-pearl buttons down center front; long sleeves gathered to two-button cuffs with embroidered scalloped edges.

Date: 1865-1879

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), embroidering

GUSN: 880

Accession Number: 1969.6456

Bed Jacket

Ivory linen with floral whitework embroidery panels linked with silk crocheted lace; V-shaped neckline, yoke and body; crocheted flower inserts in yoke; scalloped lace ruffle all around neck, body and sleeves; five small mother of pearl buttons with loop closure concealed at front; full elbow-length...

Date: 1895-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: embroidering, linen (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 881

Accession Number: 1969.6951

Parasol and Umbrella

Combination umbrella and parasol or "en tout cas". Black silk taffeta, plain; two-tone handle of light brown bamboo, with L-shaped handle of celluloid imitation horn; silver plated copper collar and band; brass hardware - spokes and points painted black; brass tip.

Date: 1900-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), celluloid (cellulosic), silk (textile), silver (metal), taffeta

GUSN: 882

Accession Number: 1969.2691

Parasol

Black floral Chantilly lace with tan silk and white silk (double) lining; squared bottom ivory carved handle with twisted cord and beaded bands spiraling up handle; collapsible; black silk tassel attached to ivory tip (tip matches design of handle); ivory points. A = parasol B = piece of handle

Date: 1860-1869

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), Chantilly lace, ivory (tooth component), lace (needlework), silk (textile)

GUSN: 883

Accession Number: 1969.5158AB

Umbrella Cover

White cotton striped herringbone twill; gathered at tip; drawstring closure - drawstring is missing.

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), twill

GUSN: 884

Accession Number: 1969.5408

Parasol

Black lace with flowers, ribbon and scalloped edge, over tan silk with white silk lining with white silk fringe (short); ivory handle carved to imitate bamboo; black and white silk tassels; ivoery tip and ivory points.

Date: 1860-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), ivory (tooth component), lace (needlework), silk (textile)

GUSN: 885

Accession Number: 1969.5455

Parasol and Cover

Body (A) is pink silk taffeta, plain; scalloped edge trimmed with pink, vertical chenille; dark brown wood with elaborate knob handle; handle is silver plated brass, lavender enamel collar; top of knob is same lavender enamel with garland of pink roses and green leafed branches; brass tip and points...

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy), chenille (yarn), silk (textile), silver (metal), taffeta

GUSN: 886

Accession Number: 1969.6056AB

Parasol with Cover

Parasol (A) is dark and light blue, red and cream striped silk taffeta, brocaded with pink rose sprig with yellow bow, background of patterned floral trail; lined with white china silk; black (ebony) with silver art nouveau handle with purple enamel; bone at tip; tassel of matching silk with braided...

Date: 1890-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: brocading, cotton (textile), ebony (wood), silk (textile), silver (metal), taffeta

GUSN: 887

Accession Number: 1969.6072AB

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