Historic New England

The American woman's new encyclopedia of home decorating /by Helen Koues.

xiv, 976 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1954.

Creators: Koues, Helen.

GUSN: 254573

Call Number: 85M Stacks TX311.K68 1954

Men of modern architecture;giants in glass, steel, and stone.

223 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Forsee, Aylesa.

GUSN: 254574

Call Number: Stacks NA40.F6 1966

The view from Vermont :tourism and the making of an American rural landscape /Blake Harrison.

xiv, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Date: c2006.

Creators: Harrison, Blake A., 1970-

GUSN: 254575

Call Number: Stacks G155.U6 H245 2006

Portrait of a patriot :the major political and legal papers of Josiah Quincy Junior /editors, Daniel R. Coquillette, Neil Longley York.

v. : ill., port. ; 25 cm.

Date: 2005-<2009 >

Creators: Quincy, Josiah, 1744-1775. Coquillette, Daniel R. York, Neil Longley.

GUSN: 254576

Call Number: 85M Stacks E263.M4 Q72 2005 vol. I

Somerville, Mass.;the beautiful city of seven hills, its history and opportunities.Issued under the direction of the Somerville Board of trade.

200 p. incl. illus., plates, ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1912.

Creators: Somerville (Mass.). Board of Trade.

GUSN: 254577

Call Number: Stacks F74.S7 S72 1912

History of the Boston Fire Department and Boston fire alarm system :January 1, 1859 through December 31, 1973.

230 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1974.

Creators: Werner, William.

GUSN: 254578

Call Number: Stacks TH9505.B7 W49 1974

The Homes and haunts of our elder poets[electronic resource] :with portraits and illustrations.

1 online resource (viii, 192 p., [12] leaves of plates) : ill., ports., facsims.

Date: [c1881]

Creators: Powers, Horatio Nelson, 1826-1890. Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903. Eaton, Wyatt, 1849-1896, ill. Gifford, R. Swain (Robert Swain), 1840-1905, ill. Martin, Homer Dodge, 1836-1897, ill. Lathrop, Francis, 1849-1909, ill. Riordan, R., ill. White, G. M., ill. Vanderhoof, C. A., ill. Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, ill. Appleton, Brown, ill.

GUSN: 254579

Call Number: Stacks PS141.H55 1881

Landscape for living.

262 p. illus., plans. 28 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Eckbo, Garrett.

GUSN: 254580

Call Number: Stacks SB472.E22 1950

History of the churches of New Bedford :to which are added notices of various other moral and religious organizations : together with short memoirs of Rev. Messrs. Wheelock Craig, John Girdwood, Timothy Stowe, Daniel Webb, and Rev. Messrs. Henniss and Tallon, of St. Mary's Church.

148, 22 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Kelley, Jesse Fillmore. Mackie, Adam, 1818-1884.

GUSN: 254581

Call Number: Stacks BR560.N3 K4 1869

Old time gardens,newly set forth by Alice Morse Earle; a book of the sweet o' the year.

xix, 491 p. illus., plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1901.

Creators: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.

GUSN: 254582

Call Number: Rare SB455.E2 1901

History of Tufts College /published by the Class of 1897. Editor in chief: Alaric Bertrand Start.

382 p. : ill., ports. 26 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Tufts University. Class of 1897.

GUSN: 254583

Call Number: Stacks LD5393.A55 1896

The old house,by Alla Rebecca Soper Norton ...

47, [1] p. incl. front., ports. 21 cm.

Date: 1936.

Creators: Norton, Alla Rebecca Soper.

GUSN: 255161

Call Number: Stacks F7.N88 1936

Medford in the Revolution :military history of Medford, Massachusetts, 1765-1783 : also list of soldiers and civil officers, with genealogical and biographical notes /by Helen Tilden Wild.

67 p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Wild, Helen Tilden.

GUSN: 255162

Call Number: Stacks F74.M5 W7 1903

The manufacture of paint;a practical handbook for paint manufacturers, merchants, and painters,by J. Cruickshank Smith.

xiv, 271 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Smith, J. Cruickshank (James Cruickshank), b. 1870.

GUSN: 255163

Call Number: Stacks TP936.S73 1915

Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman.

ix, 254 p. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Whitman, Sarah. Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.

GUSN: 255164

Call Number: Stacks Z269.2.W45 A4 1907

Gardening for ladies;and Companion to the flower-garden /by Mrs. Loudon.

430 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1860, 1843.

Creators: Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858. Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852. Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858. Companion to the flower-garden.

GUSN: 255165

Call Number: Stacks SB406.L68 1860

Guide to the study of United States imprints[by] G. Thomas Tanselle.

2 v. (lxiv, 1050 p.) front. 26 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-

GUSN: 255166

Call Number: Stacks Z1215.A2 T35 1971 v.1 (and 1 more)

Sewing machines :historical trade literature in Smithsonian Institution collections.

x, 52 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Date: 2001.

Creators: Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries.

GUSN: 255167

Call Number: Stacks Z5853.M2 S55 2001

Guide to modern architecture, northeast states,edited by John McAndrew.

127, [1] p. illus. (incl. plans.) 21 cm.

Date: [c1940]

Creators: McAndrew, John, ed. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

GUSN: 255168

Call Number: Stacks NA712.M25 1940

A report on the trees and shrubs growing naturally in the forests of Massachusetts.Originally published agreeably to an order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State.

2 v. plates. 25 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881. Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey.

GUSN: 255169

Call Number: Stacks QK484.M4 E6 1894 v.1 (and 1 more)

Cambridge on the cutting edge :innovators and inventions.

47 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [199-?]

Creators: Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.)

GUSN: 255170

Call Number: Stacks T22.5.C3 C36 1990

A new system of domestic cookery :formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families /by a lady.

3 p.l., xx, 296 p. ; 15 cm.

Date: 1807.

Creators: Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828. A lady, pseud.

GUSN: 255171

Call Number: Rare TX715.R86 1807

Springfield city directory and business advertiser.

v. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.

GUSN: 255172

Call Number: Stacks F74.S8 S67 1863

The cabinet makers' assistant,embracing the most modern style of cabinet furniture: exemplified in new designs, practically arranged on forty-four plates containing one hundred and ninety-eight figures: to which is prefixed a short treatise on linear perspective, for the use of practical men /by John Hall.

40, 43 p. : ill. ; 15 x 24 cm.

Date: 1944]

Creators: Hall, John, architect.

GUSN: 255173

Call Number: Stacks TT197.H2 1944

Polk's Lowell suburban (Middlesex County, Mass.) directory.

v. ; 27 cm.

Creators: R.L. Polk & Co.

GUSN: 255174

Call Number: Stacks F74.L6 P6 1905

The child's book of health in easy lessons for schools /by Albert F. Blaisdell.

viii, 136 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Blaisdell, Albert F. (Albert Franklin), 1847-1927.

GUSN: 255175

Call Number: Stacks QP37.B636 1895

Industrial drawing:comprising the description and uses of drawing instruments, the construction of plane figures, tinting ... mechanical and topographical drawing. For the use of high schools, academies, and scientific schools.By D.H. Mahan ...

xiii, 209 p. col. front. (plan) illus. 24 cm. and atlas of 30 fold pl., 23 1/2 x 14 cm.

Date: [1877]

Creators: Mahan, D. H. (Dennis Hart), 1802-1871. Thompson, Dwinel F. (Dwinel French), 1846-1919.

GUSN: 255176

Call Number: Stacks T353.M22 1877

Tercentenary of the founding of Boston.An account of the celebration marking the three hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the site of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.Compiled by direction of His Honor James M. Curley, mayor of the city of Boston. Committee on compilation.

xii, 392 p. incl. front., illus., ports., tab., form. 26 cm.

Date: 1930]

Creators: Herlihy, Elizabeth May, 1880- Boston (Mass.). Committee on compilation of the tercentenary celebration.

GUSN: 255177

Call Number: Stacks F73.37.B53 1930

A primer of New England crewel embroidery.

72 p. ill. (1 on title-page, 1 on cover) incl. diagr. 22 x 14 cm.

Date: 1971.

Creators: Hedlund, Catherine A.

GUSN: 255178

Call Number: Coll. NK9212.H4 1971

West Cambridge on the nineteenth of April, 1775An address delivered in behalf of the Ladies' soldiers' aid society of West Cambridge,by Samuel Abbot Smith. Boston, A. Mudge & son, printers. 1864.

66 p. 20 cm.

Date: 1955]

Creators: Smith, Samuel Abbot, 1829-1865. Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, West Cambridge, Mass.

GUSN: 255179

Call Number: Stacks F74.A7 S6 1955

Text books of art education,book I-,by Hugo B. Froehlich and Bonnie E. Snow.

v. illus. (part col.) plates (part col.) 22 x 18 cm.

Date: [c1904-

Creators: Froehlich, Hugo B., 1862-1925. Snow, Bonnie E., d. 1925. Prang Company.

GUSN: 255180

Call Number: Stacks N357.F81 1904

Old rooms for new living,being a collection of early American interiors, authentic in design, various in period, and suitable for today's living; this is a treasury of tradition for the home decorator.Photos. by Samuel Chamberlain.

130 p. illus. 25 cm.

Date: [1953]

Creators: Chamberlain, Narcissa G.

GUSN: 255181

Call Number: Stacks NK2115.C47 1953

Notes on Colonel Henry Vassall (1721-1769)his wife Penelope Royall, his house at Cambridge, and his slaves Tony & Darby ...By Samuel Francis Batchelder.

85 p. illus. folded geneal. table 24 cm.

Date: 1917.

Creators: Batchelder, Samuel Francis, 1870-1927.

GUSN: 255182

Call Number: Stacks F74.C1 V3 1917

Lexington and Concord.

73 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975.

GUSN: 255183

Call Number: Stacks F74.L67 C5 1939

Keywords in American landscape design /Therese O'Malley ; with contributions by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Anne L. Helmreich.

724 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: O'Malley, Therese. Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. Helmreich, Anne. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)

GUSN: 255922

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB469.25.O45 2010 c.1 (and 1 more)

The food axis :cooking, eating, and the architecture of American houses /Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 21 cm., Blending architectural and social history with the necessityùand the passionùfor food, this engaging new book attempts to understand the development of the American house by viewing it through one very specific lens: the food axis. Taking in far more than the kitchen, a...

Date: 2010.

Creators: Cromley, Elizabeth C.

GUSN: 256320

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA7205.C76 2010 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Building a housewife's paradise :gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century /Tracey Deutsch.

337 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., "Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that Americans feed themselves. In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the importa...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Deutsch, Tracey.

GUSN: 256321

Call Number: Stacks HF5469.23.U62 D48 2010

Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine :commerce, culture, and community on the Eastern frontier /Kevin D. Murphy.

xiv, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Murphy, Kevin D.

GUSN: 256322

Call Number: Stacks F29.B78 M87 2010 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Fur, fortune, and empire :the epic history of the fur trade in America /Eric Jay Dolin.

xvii, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm., For all of fur's contentious position in American culture today, historian Eric Jay Dolin shows its centrality in our nation's ever-surprising history. He argues that the trade in animal skins turned colonial America into a tumultuous frontier w...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Dolin, Eric Jay.

GUSN: 256323

Call Number: Stacks E46.D65 2010 c. 1 (and 1 more)

Firsting and lasting :writing Indians out of existence in New England /Jean M. O'Brien.

xxvi, 269 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: O'Brien, Jean M.

GUSN: 256324

Call Number: Stacks E78.N5 O35 2010

The archaeology of clothing and bodily adornment in colonial America /Diana DiPaolo Loren ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.

xviii, 121 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Loren, Diana DiPaolo. Nassaney, Michael S.

GUSN: 256325

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT607.L67 2010

A queer history of the United States /Michael Bronski.

xx, 287 p. ; 24 cm., Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, the book takes the reader through the centuries, from Columbus' arrival and the brutal treatment the Native peoples received, through the American Revolution's radical challenging of sex and gender rol...

Date: c2011.

Creators: Bronski, Michael.

GUSN: 256326

Call Number: 85M Stacks HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011

Peabody & Stearns :country houses and seaside cottages /Annie Robinson.

247 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 32 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: Robinson, Annie (Ann E.)

GUSN: 256327

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.P36 R63 2010

Hill-Stead :the country place of Theodate Pope Riddle /James F. O'Gorman, editor ; essays by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. ... [et al.] ; foreword by Robert A. M. Stern.

200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: c2010.

Creators: O'Gorman, James F.

GUSN: 256328

Call Number: 85M Stacks N569.H55 2010

Yankee modern :the houses of Estes/Twombly /William Morgan.

167 p. : chiefly col. ill., plans ; 26 cm., "Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as 'quiet modernism.' Their Rhode Island-based firm, Estes/Twombly Architects, builds modestly sized and geometrically precise houses that are unique to their New Eng...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Morgan, William, 1944-

GUSN: 256329

Call Number: Stacks NA7239.E88 A4 2010

House that John Built : /ten generations of the Pickering family of Salem

xi, 242 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, plans, ports ; 27 cm.

Date: c2010

Creators: Armstrong, Richard C.

GUSN: 256330

Call Number: Stacks CT274.P51 A3 2010

Boston beheld :antique town and country views /D. Brenton Simons.

x, 148 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 x 29 cm.

Date: c2008.

Creators: Simons, D. Brenton. New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 256331

Call Number: 85M Stacks N8214.5.U6 S47 2008

Boston & beyond :a bird's eye view of New England : an exhibit from the collections of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, January 2008-June 2008 /written and edited by Ronald E. Grim, Roni Pick, and Eileen Warburton ; foreword by Bernard A. Margolis ; with essays by Alex Krieger and Debra Block.

167 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 2008.

Creators: Grim, Ronald E. Pick, Roni. Warburton, Eileen. Boston Public Library. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center.

GUSN: 256332

Call Number: 85M Stacks GA109.B67 2008

Beatrix Farrand :private gardens, public landscapes /Judith B. Tankard.

240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm., Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of...

Date: c2009.

Creators: Tankard, Judith B.

GUSN: 256333

Call Number: 85M Stacks SB470.F37 T36 2009

Becoming American Jews :Temple Israel of Boston /Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, Lisa Fagin Davis.

xvii, 259 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Date: c2009.

Creators: Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan. Porter, Susan L. Davis, Lisa Fagin.

GUSN: 256334

Call Number: 85M Stacks BM225.B6 D89 2009

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