Historic New England

Illustrated encyclopedic dictionary of building and construction terms / Hugh Brooks.

366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1976.

Creators: Brooks, Hugh, 1926-

GUSN: 145958

Call Number: HisPres. TH9.B76

Iridescent glass. Introd. by Frederick Carder.

128 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: [1956]

Creators: Freeman, Larry, 1904-

GUSN: 145959

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.F7

Victorian silverplated flatware / by Doris Jean Snell.

[7] p., [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: [1975]

Creators: Snell, Doris Jean.

GUSN: 145960

Call Number: Coll. NK7240.S63 1975

Emily Chester. A novel.

367 p. 19 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Seemèuller, Anne Moncure (Crane), 1838-1872.

GUSN: 145961

Call Number: Rare PZ3.S4535 E

Hepplewhite furniture designs from the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's guide 1794 / with a preface by Ralph Edwards.

80 p. : (chiefly illus.) ; 25 cm.

Date: 1955.

Creators: Edwards, Ralph. A. Hepplewhite and Co.

GUSN: 145962

Call Number: Coll. NK2542.H5 1955

Otis' letters in defence of the Hartford Convention, and the people of Massachusetts.

vii, 103 p. 22 cm.

Date: 1824.

Creators: Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848.

GUSN: 145963

Call Number: Rare E357.7.O88

Period furniture; design and construction / by Franklin H. Gottshall.

260 p. : ill.

Date: c1937.

Creators: Gottshall, Franklin H.

GUSN: 145964

Call Number: Coll. TT194.G67 1937

Paperweights and other glass curiosities / E. M. Elville.

116 p. illus.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Elville, E. M.

GUSN: 145965

Call Number: Coll. NK5440.P3 E4 1967

Lace and lace-making. Drawings by the author.

219 p. illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1953.

Creators: Powys, Marian, 1882-

GUSN: 145966

Call Number: Coll. NK9404.P75 1953

The Connoisseur new guide to antique English furniture / edited by L.G.G. Ramsey, editor of the Connoisseur ; with an introduction by Terence Davis.

192 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Ramsey, L. G. G.

GUSN: 145967

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.R3 1961

Nuova raccolta rappresentante i costumi religiosi, civili, e militari degli antichi Egiziani, Etruschi, Greci, e Romani. Tratti dagli antichi monumenti, per uso de' professori delle belle arti. Disegnata, ed incisa in rame da Domenico Pronti.

1 p.l., 49 pl. 22 x 27 cm.

Date: [1800?]

Creators: Pronti, Domenico, b. ca. 1750.

GUSN: 145968

Call Number: Rare DE58.P8

101 masterpieces of American primitive painting, from the collection of Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Foreword by James J. Rorimer. Pref. by John Walker. Introd. by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner.

159 p. col. illus. 31 cm.

Date: [1962]

Creators: Garbisch, Edgar William. Garbisch, Bernice Chrysler.

GUSN: 145969

Call Number: Little D207.G3 1962

Monograph of the work of Charles A. Platt, with an introd. by Royal Cortissoz.

ix l., 183 plates (incl. plans) 42 cm.

Date: [c1913]

Creators: Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933. Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948.

GUSN: 145970

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA737.P5 A3

French eighteenth-century furniture. Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Photos. by E. Boudot-Lamotte.

128 p. illus. (part col.) ports. 22 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Souchal, Geneviáeve.

GUSN: 145971

Call Number: Coll. NK2548.S653

Wallpaper, its history, design and use, by Phyllis Ackerman, PH. D.; with frontispiece in color and numerous illustrations from photographs.

xix, 268 p. col. front., plates. 22 cm.

Date: [1938]

Creators: Ackerman, Phyllis, 1893-

GUSN: 145972

Call Number: Stacks NK3395.A3 1938

Furniture history : the journal of the Furniture History Society. (Annual)

v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Creators: Furniture History Society (London, England)

GUSN: 145973

Call Number: Coll. NK2528.F8 2001 (and 2 more)

Manual for museums / Ralph H. Lewis.

xiii, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Lewis, Ralph H. United States. National Park Service.

GUSN: 145974

Call Number: Coll. AM5.L48 1976

A pictorial guide to American spinning wheels / by David A. Pennington and Michael B. Taylor ; cover design and photographs by James P. Munsie.

100 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Pennington, David A. Taylor, Michael B.

GUSN: 145975

Call Number: Coll. TS1484.P46 1975

Collector's choice of porcelain and faèience.

264 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.

Date: [1968, c1967]

Creators: Berges, Ruth.

GUSN: 145976

Call Number: Coll. NK4230.B4 1967

Annals of a fortress. By E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall ...

xv, 390 p. front. (map) illus., plates, plans (part col.) diagrs. 22 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel, 1814-1879. Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895, tr.

GUSN: 145977

Call Number: Stacks UG401.V6 1876

On a New England campus [by] Frances Lester Warner.

vi, [1], 279, [1] p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm.

Date: 1937

Creators: Warner, Frances Lester, 1888-

GUSN: 145978

Call Number: Stacks LD7096.W35

Food on the frontier : Minnesota cooking from 1850 to 1900, with selected recipes / by Marjorie Kreidberg.

vii, 313 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Kreidberg, Marjorie.

GUSN: 145979

Call Number: Coll. TX715.K897

English domestic brass, 1680-1810, and the history of its origins / Rupert Gentle & Rachael Feild ; foreword by Graham Woods.

204 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Gentle, Rupert. Feild, Rachael, joint author.

GUSN: 145980

Call Number: Coll. NK7843.G45 1975

Architectural metal handbook [by] Earl P. Baker [and] Harold S. Langland.

[5] Á., 3-319 p. illus., diagrs. 29 cm.

Date: 1947.

Creators: Baker, Earl P., b. 1882. Langland, Harold S. (Harold Severin), 1898- National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers.

GUSN: 145981

Call Number: Stacks TH1651.N38 1947

Wood : colors and kinds.

36 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 1956.

Creators: Kukachka, B. Francis (Bohumil Francis), 1915- Russell, Roger B. (Roger Bridgford), 1901- Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)

GUSN: 145982

Call Number: HisPres. TA419.U65 1956

Diagnosing paint problems and correcting them / by Neil Garlock.

104 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: [c1969]

Creators: Garlock, Neil. American Paint Journal Company.

GUSN: 145983

Call Number: HisPres.

The Thirteen Colonies cookbook : a collection of favourite receipts from thirteen exemplary eighteenth-century cooks with proper menus for simple fare and elegant entertainments and selected notes of historic interest, being a guide to open-hearth and bee-hive oven cookery, adapted for twentieth-century use / written and illustrated by Mary Donovan ... [et al.].

xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Donovan, Mary, 1937-

GUSN: 145984

Call Number: Coll. TX715.T39

Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, 1606-1646; ed. by William T. Davis. With a map and three facsimiles.

xv p., 2 l., 3-437 p. fold. map, 3 facsim. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

Date: 1908

Creators: Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907, ed.

GUSN: 145985

New life for old dwellings : appraisal and rehabilitation / by Gerald E. Sherwood.

99 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1975.

Creators: Sherwood, Gerald E.

GUSN: 145986

Call Number: HisPres. S21.A37 no. 481 c.1 (and 1 more)

The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director: being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture, in the most fashionable taste. Including a great variety of chairs, sofas, beds, and couches [etc.] ... To which is prefixed, a short explanation of the five orders of architecture; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified. The whole comprehended in two hundred copper-plates ... By Thomas Chippendale ...

1 p. l., reprint ([26] p., CXCIX (i.e. 201) pl. on 101 l.), [1], 99 p. illus. 46 cm.

Date: 1938.

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779. Storey, Walter Rendell, b. 1881.

GUSN: 145987

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.C5 A3 1938

A history of English wallpaper, 1509-1914 / by Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson; with 70 plates in colour and 190 illustrations in half-tone.

ix-xiii, 281 p. front., illus., ports., plates (part col. and mounted) facsims. 34 cm.

Date: [1926]

Creators: Sugden, Alan Victor. Edmondson, John Ludlam, joint author.

GUSN: 145988

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK3443.S8

Thomas Day, cabinetmaker : an exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1975.

75 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1975.

Creators: Day, Thomas, ca. 1801-ca. 1861. North Carolina Museum of History.

GUSN: 145989

Call Number: Roth NK2439.D38 N67

Homes of our forefathers in Massachusetts. From original drawings, by Edwin Whitefield.

2 p. l., 39 l. 39 mounted col. pl. 25 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

GUSN: 145990

The homes of our forefathers. Being a selection of the oldest and most interesting historical houses, and noted places in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. From original drawings taken on the spot, by Edwin Whitefield.

3 p. 1., 36 col. pl. 25 x 20 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892.

GUSN: 145991

Call Number: Rare F5.W58 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Barclays of Boston. By Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis.

2 p.l., 419 p. 21 cm.

Date: 1854.

Creators: Otis, Harrison Gray, Mrs., 1796-1873.

GUSN: 145992

Call Number: Rare PZ3.O885 B

Problems in building construction : a scientific method approach / J. Trill, J.T. Bowyer.

2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1972.

Creators: Trill, John. Bowyer, Jack, joint author. Problems in building construction.

GUSN: 145993

Call Number: HisPres. TH145.T7

A dictionary of architecture / Nikolaus Pevsner, John Fleming, and Hugh Honour.

556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976, c1966.

Creators: Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902- Fleming, John, 1919- Honour, Hugh.

GUSN: 145994

Call Number: HisPres. NA31.P48 1976

Harriot Sumner Curtis, standing and holding gloves, ETV-16.03

The image shows Harriot Sumner Curtis standing and holding gloves. She is wearing a long dress with lace details and a wide-brimmed hat adorned with feathers.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397823

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.03

Margaret Curtis wearing fur, seated on sofa, ETV-16.04

Margaret Curtis is seated on a tufted sofa, wearing a fur-trimmed garment draped over her shoulders. She is dressed in a light-colored blouse and a large hat adorned with feathers. She rests her hand on the sofa while looking slightly to one side.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397824

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.04

Harriot Sumner Curtis, seated with flower bouquet, ETV-16.05

The image shows Harriot Sumner Curtis seated with a bouquet of flowers. She is wearing a formal dress and is positioned next to a table on which the vase of flowers is placed.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397825

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.05

Harriot Sumner Curtis, standing by tall dresser, ETV-16.06

The image shows Harriot Sumner Curtis standing beside a tall dresser. She is wearing a long, flowing dress and a wide-brimmed hat. A decorative tapestry or wall covering is visible behind her, along with a framed painting on top of the dresser. A portion of an upholstered chair or couch is visible t...

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397826

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.06

Margaret Curtis seated on sofa, ETV-16.07

Margaret Curtis is seated on a sofa, facing slightly to her left. She is wearing a long, white dress and a hat adorned with feathers. The background features an ornate tapestry with intricate patterns.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397827

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.07

Margaret and Harriot Sumner Curtis with props, ETV-16.08

The image depicts Margaret and Harriot Sumner Curtis standing indoors. They are wearing elaborate hats and dresses with lace details. A decorative table with intricate patterns is visible in the foreground.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397828

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.08

Margaret Curtis with vase and crystal orb, ETV-16.09

The image shows Margaret Curtis seated at a table, holding a vase with a dragon design and a crystal orb on top. She is wearing a large hat adorned with feathers and dressed in a high-collared, long-sleeved garment.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397829

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.09

Margaret and Harriot Sumner Curtis standing together, ETV-16.10

The image shows Margaret and Harriot Sumner Curtis standing together indoors. They are dressed in long skirts and elaborate hats. A window with vertical blinds can be seen behind them and there is a piece of furniture with a decorative statue on top to the side.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397830

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-16.10

Henry Goodwin Vaughan in costume, profile view, ETV-17.01

The image shows a man identified as Henry Goodwin Vaughan in a profile view. He is dressed in a costume featuring a puffed sleeve and a hat with a feather. The background is ornately patterned.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397831

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-17.01

Henry Goodwin Vaughan in costume, ETV-17.02

The image features a man identified as Henry Goodwin Vaughan dressed in a theatrical costume. The costume includes a wide-brimmed hat with a large feather and a garment with puffed sleeves. The background is ornately patterned.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397832

Ref. Code: MS013.06.01.ETV-17.02

Woods, winter evening, South Berwick, Maine, ETV-17.03

The image depicts a wooded area during a winter evening in South Berwick, Maine. Numerous trees are visible with snow covering the ground.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397833

Ref. Code: MS013.06.03.ETV-17.03

Woods, winter evening, South Berwick, Maine, ETV-17.04

The image depicts a snow-covered forest in South Berwick, Maine, during a winter evening. Tall trees with bare branches are visible, with a few bushes and undergrowth in the snowy foreground.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 397834

Ref. Code: MS013.06.03.ETV-17.04

Old Kittery, 1647-1947.

36 p.

Date: 1947]

Creators: Kittery (Me.). 300th Anniversary Publication Committee.

GUSN: 148162

Call Number: Stacks F29.K6 K63

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