Historic New England

Château Higginson :social life in Boston's Back Bay, 1870-1920 /Margo Miller.

304 pages : illustrations some color ; 24 cm, ".A vivid and absorbing account of one man's efforts to construct a building that would create "a new way of life for Bostonians-and Americans-to live." Not only does Henry Lee Higginson (best known for founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and his hou...

Creators: Miller, Margo, author.

GUSN: 361626

Call Number: Stacks F73.68.B33 M55 2017

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

Agricultural literature :proud heritage, future promise : a bicentennial symposium, September 24-26, 1975 /edited by Alan Fusonie, Leila Moran ; sponsored by the Agricultural History Society [and others].

371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Date: Ã1977.

Creators: Fusonie, Alan M. Moran, Leila, 1924- Agricultural History Society.

GUSN: 361792

Call Number: Stacks S494.5.A39 A37

Farming in the new nation :interpreting American agriculture, 1790-1840 /edited by Darwin P. Kelsey.

ii, 239 pages ; 24 cm

Date: 1972.

Creators: Kelsey, Darwin P. Agricultural History Society.

GUSN: 361793

Call Number: Stacks S441.F26

The old farmer and his almanack :being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert. B. Thomas's Farmer's almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter /by George Lyman Kittredge.

xiv, 403 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates, map, facsimiles ; 23 cm, Being some observations on life and manners in Vew England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert. B. Thomas's Farmer's almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive,...

Date: 1920. [c 1904]

Creators: Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941.

GUSN: 361794

Call Number: Stacks F5.K62 1920

Nantucket,a camera impression,by Samuel Chamberlain.

73 pages frontispiece, illustrations 19 x 16 cm

Date: 1939.

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975.

GUSN: 361795

Call Number: Stacks F72.N2 C45 1939

Directory of historical organizations in the United States and Canada /American Association for State and Local History.

1358 pages ; 28 cm

Date: Ã2002.

Creators: American Association for State and Local History.

GUSN: 362295

Call Number: Ref E172.D5 2002

Records of Boston architecture in the architectural records of the Smithsonian Institution.

224 pages ; 27 cm

Date: 1969.

Creators: Mathieson, Moira B. Smithsonian Institution.

GUSN: 362297

Call Number: Ref NA735.B7 M43

Luigi Lucioni :modern light /edited by Katie Wood Kirchhoff ; essays by David Brody, Thomas Denenberg, Katie Wood Kirchhoff, Alexander Nemerov, Nancie Ravenel, and Richard Saunders ; in association with Shelburne Museum, Vermont.

159 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 x 25 cm

Creators: Lucioni, Luigi, 1900-1988, artist. Wood Kirchhoff, Katie, editor, writer of supplementary textual content. Brody, David Eric. writer of supplementary textual content. Denenberg, Thomas Andrew, 1967- writer of supplementary textual content. Nemerov, Alexander, writer of supplementary textual content. Ravenel, Nancie, writer of supplementary textual content. Saunders, Richard H., 1949- writer of supplementary textual content. Shelburne Museum,

GUSN: 362472

Call Number: Stacks ND237.L83 A4 2022

Indigenous continent :the epic contest for North America /Pekka Hämäläinen.

xiv, 571 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possibl...

Creators: Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- author.

GUSN: 362473

Call Number: Stacks E77.H197 2022

Here & everywhere else :small-town Maine and the world /Andrew Witmer.

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer ...

Creators: Witmer, Andrew, author.

GUSN: 362474

Call Number: Stacks F29.M8 W58 2022

The Maine lobster boat :history of an iconic fishing vessel /Daniel Sheldon Lee.

xxiii, 459 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm, "Filled with colorful characters, old maritime tales, and fascinating details, this a definitive look at the origins and lore of Maine's most ubiquitous vessel"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Lee, Daniel Sheldon, 1966- author.

GUSN: 362475

Call Number: Stacks VM431 L44 2022

William Rimmer :champion of imagination in American art /Dorinda Evans.

x, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Evans, Dorinda, author. Rimmer, William, 1816-1879.

GUSN: 362476

Call Number: Stacks N6537.R546 E83 2022

The art & times of Daniel Jocz /foreword by Susan Grant Lewin ; with essays by Wendy Steiner, Jeannine Falino, Patricia Harris, and David Lyon ; edited by Sarah Davis.

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 28 cm

Creators: Jocz, Daniel. Lewin, Susan Grant, writer of added commentary. Steiner, Wendy, writer of added commentary. Falino, Jeannine J., writer of added commentary. Harris, Patricia, writer of added commentary. Lyon, David, writer of added commentary. Davis, Sarah, editor.

GUSN: 362477

Call Number: Coll NK7398.J63 A4 2022

Champlain Valley Fair /Stephen Mease.

127 pages : chiefly illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.

Creators: Mease, Stephen Michael, 1955-

GUSN: 362478

Call Number: Stacks F59.E7 M43 2022

Design with nature on Cape Cod and the islands /Jack Ahern.

180 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 x 27 cm, "Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of ...

Creators: Ahern, Jack (John F.), author.

GUSN: 362479

Call Number: Stacks SB472.45 .A43 2022

Ghost towns of New England :twenty-six locations lost to time /Taryn Plumb.

viii, 241 pages ; 23 cm, "People are inexplicably drawn to abandoned places. Believe it or not, New England is home to numerous ghost towns long abandoned, but filled with mystery, unexpected beauty, and a sense that these locations are simply biding their time, waiting for people to return. Taryn ...

Creators: Plumb, Taryn, 1981- author.

GUSN: 362480

Call Number: Stacks F2.3 .P585 2022

Shaker fancy goods :shaker survival through sisterhood and craft /Catherine S. Goldring.

xxv, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Goldring, Catherine S., author.

GUSN: 362481

Call Number: Stacks NK805.G65 2022

Lost on the Freedom Trail :the National Park Service and urban renewal in postwar Boston /Seth C. Bruggeman.

xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm., "Boston National Historical Park is one of America's most popular heritage destinations, drawing in millions of visitors annually. Tourists flock there to see the site of the Boston Massacre, to relive Paul Revere's midnight ride, and to board Old Iron...

Creators: Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- author.

GUSN: 362622

Call Number: Stacks F73.65 .B78 2022

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