Historic New England

Old historic homes of Cheshire, Connecticut, with an account of the early settlement of the town, description of its churches, academy and old town cemetery, places of interest--Roaring brook, Scott's rock, barytes and copper mines, ancient trees, etc. Compiled by Edwin R. Brown. Illustrated by John R. Paddock.

138 p. incl. plates, ports. 21 x 27 cm.

Date: 1895.

Creators: Brown, Edwin Roys, d. 1930, comp. Paddock, John R., illus.

GUSN: 148377

Call Number: Stacks F104.C5 B8

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire, a history.

288 p. illus. 27 cm.

Date: 1915.

Creators: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930, comp.

GUSN: 148378

Call Number: Stacks HD9879.A5 B7

Life in Danbury : being a brief but comprehensive record of the doings of a remarkable people under more remarkable circumstances and chronicled in a most remarkable manner / by the author James M. Bailey ; and carefully compiled with a pair of eight-dollar shears, by the compiler.

303 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1873.

Creators: Bailey, James M. (James Montgomery), 1841-1894.

GUSN: 148379

Call Number: Stacks PN6161.B275 1873b

East Hartford : its history and traditions / Joseph O. Goodwin.

249 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Goodwin, Joseph Olcott.

GUSN: 148380

Call Number: Stacks F104.E18 G6 1976

Greens Farms, Connecticut, the old West parish of Fairfield ... historical sketches and reminiscences, by George Penfield Jennings.

5 p. ¾., 152 p. front., plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1933.

Creators: Jennings, George Penfield, 1855-1933.

GUSN: 148381

Call Number: Stacks F104.G75 J3

Semi-centennial of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire September 6, 7, 8, 9, 1896. Compiled by Herbert W. Eastman.

204 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. ports.) 26 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Eastman, Herbert Walter, comp. 1857-1898, Manchester (N.H.)

GUSN: 148382

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 M2 1897

Black Rock, seaport of old Fairfield, Connecticut, 1644-1870; pages of history gathered by Cornelia Penfield Lathrop, including the Journal of William Wheeler, with maps, illustrations & genealogies, fully indexed.

xi, [1], 214 p. front., illus. (incl. facsim.) plates, maps. 25 cm.

Date: 1930.

Creators: Lathrop, Cornelia Penfield, 1892- ed. Wheeler, William, 1762-1845.

GUSN: 148383

Call Number: Stacks F104.B52 L35

Manchester of yesterday; a human interest story of its past, with one hundred illustrations, including rare wood engravings of old pioneers and places, by L. Ashton Thorp.

xxv, [1] p., 2 ¾., 561 p. : incl. front., illus. 24 cm.

Date: [c1939]

Creators: Thorp, Louis Ashton, 1876-

GUSN: 148384

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 T56

Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. Photographic reproductions, illustrating every home in the town. Prominent people past and present, all of the school children, local antiques, etc.

212 p., 1 ¾. incl. front. (facsim.) illus. pl. 32 cm.

Date: 1906.

Creators: Brandegee, Arthur L., comp. Smith, Eddy N., joint comp.

GUSN: 148385

Call Number: Stacks F104.F4 B8

Farmington papers [by] Julius Gay.

4 p.¾., 5-338 p. front., illus., plates, port., facsims. 22 cm.

Date: 1929.

Creators: Gay, Julius, 1834-1918. O'Connor, Alice Keats, d. 1928, ed.

GUSN: 148386

Call Number: Stacks F104.F4 G276

Other days in Greenwich, or, Tales and reminiscences of an old New England town / by Frederick A. Hubbard.

xviii, 346 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Hubbard, Frederick A.

GUSN: 148387

Call Number: Stacks F104.G8 H8

The stone records of Groton, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins; ed. by Emily S. Gilman.

96 p. illus. 23 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, 1795-1869. Gilman, Emily Serena, 1835- ed.

GUSN: 148388

Call Number: Stacks F104.G84 C3

Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. / by local writers ; Charles F. Burgess, editor and publisher.

101 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1909.

Creators: Burgess, Charles F.

GUSN: 148389

Call Number: Stacks F104.G84 B9

Yester-years of Guilford, by Mary Hoadley Griswold.

165 p. double front., plates. 24 cm.

Date: [c1938]

Creators: Griswold, Mary Hoadley.

GUSN: 148390

Call Number: Stacks F104.G9 G7

Old Guilford, including the land now consistuting the towns of Guilford and Madison; drawings, text and hand lettering by Charles D. Hubbard.

3 p. ¾., 51, [1] p. front., illus. (incl. map) 26 cm.

Date: c1939]

Creators: Hubbard, Charles Daniel, 1876-1951.

GUSN: 148391

Call Number: Stacks F104.G9 H83

A century in Hartford, being the history of the Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company in relation to the hundred years of local and national progress and experiences and the world development in invention and discoveries-- the age of marvels, written by Charles W. Burpee.

xi p. 1 l., 363 p. front., illus., plates, ports., double map, facsims. 24 cm.

Date: 1931.

Creators: Burpee, Charles Winslow.

GUSN: 148392

Call Number: Stacks HG9898.H3 B3

The city of Hartford and vicinity and their resources / compiled and managed by J. H. Sutherland.

246, [5] p. : ill., ports., plates ; 27 x 32 cm.

Date: 1900.

Creators: Sutherland, John H

GUSN: 148393

Call Number: Stacks F104.H3 S97

The Hartford State House of 1796.

x, 68 p. illus., facsims., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1964?]

Creators: Brainard, Newton Case, 1880-1964. Connecticut Historical Society.

GUSN: 148394

Call Number: Stacks F104.H3 B83

Harvard guide to American history.

2 v. (xxx, 1290 p.) 25 cm.

Date: 1974.

Creators: Freidel, Frank Burt. Showman, Richard K., joint author. Handlin, Oscar, 1915- Harvard guide to American history.

GUSN: 148395

Call Number: Ref. Z1236.F77 1974

Monument, the Connecticut State Capitol / edited by David Park Curry and Patricia Dawes Pierce to accompany an exhibition celebrating the centennial of the capitol's completion, held at the Old State House, Hartford, with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

107 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Curry, David Park. Pierce, Patricia Dawes.

GUSN: 148396

Call Number: Stacks NA4413.H3 M66

Clarke's Manchester directory / compiled and published by John B. Clarke.

2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1883-1884

Creators: Clarke, John B., compiler.

GUSN: 148397

Call Number: Stacks F44.M2 C53 vol.5 1883

Portraits of a nineteenth century family : a symposium on the Beecher family / edited by Earl A. French and Diana Royce.

127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: French, Earl A. Royce, Diana.

GUSN: 148398

Call Number: Stacks CS71.B4405 1976

The Mechanic. (Monthly)

1 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: 1834.

Creators: Mechanic Fund Association.

GUSN: 148399

Call Number: Stacks T1.M43 1834 Jan-Dec

Colonial history of the parish of Mount Carmel as read in its geologic formations, records and traditions, by John H. Dickerman ...

109, [1] p. incl. front., illus. 26 cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Dickerman, John H.

GUSN: 148400

Call Number: Stacks F104.M92 D5

Historic Lebanon; highlights of an historic town.

79 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Date: [1950]

Creators: Armstrong, Robert G. (Robert Grenville), 1888-

GUSN: 148401

Call Number: Stacks F104.L4 A7

Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833, being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school, comp. by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel. Ed. by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel.

465 p. front., plates, ports., facsims., charts (1 col.) 25 cm.

Date: 1903.

Creators: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939. Buel, Elizabeth Cynthia Barney, 1868-1943, ed.

GUSN: 148402

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.L7 V2 (and 1 more)

More chronicles of a pioneer school, from 1792 to 1833, being added history on the Litchfield Female Academy kept by Miss Sarah Pierce and her nephew, John Pierce Brace, compiled by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel ...

xii p., 1 ¾., 376 p. front., plates, ports., map. 25 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939. Brace, John Pierce, 1793-1872.

GUSN: 148403

Call Number: Stacks LD7251.L7 V3

History of the First Unitarian Society in Dunstable, now Nashua, 1826-1926 / by Leonard Freeman Burbank.

82 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: [1926]

Creators: Burbank, Leonard Freeman.

GUSN: 148404

Call Number: Stacks F44.N2 B87 1926

History and antiquities of New Haven, (Conn.) from its earliest settlement to the present time. Collected and comp. from the most authentic sources. / by J.W. Barber.

108 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., maps (part col.) ; 19 cm.

Date: 1831.

Creators: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, comp.

GUSN: 148405

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 B2

History of New Boston, New Hampshire. Comp. and written by Elliott C. Cogswell.

469 p. plates, ports., fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1864.

Creators: Cogswell, Elliott C. (Elliott Colby), 1814-1887.

GUSN: 148406

Call Number: Stacks F44.N5 C6

New Haven, a guide to architecture and urban design / Elizabeth Mills Brown ; [photos. by Gilbert Kenna, Ray Schmakel, and Lee Tabor].

ix, 228 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1976.

Creators: Brown, Elizabeth Mills.

GUSN: 148407

Call Number: Stacks NA735.N39 B76

Yale and "The city of elms," by W. E. Decrow. Illustrated with heliotypes of all the principal college buildings, a plan of the college grounds,and a map of the city of New Haven.

xi, [1], 130 p., 1 l. illus., 14 pl., double plan. 20 cm.

Date: 1882.

Creators: Decrow, W. E. (William Emery), 1853-1905.

GUSN: 148408

Call Number: Stacks LD6338.D18

Colonial houses of New Haven / photographs and descriptions by Susan C. Gower.

32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1894.

Creators: Gower, Susan Charlotte.

GUSN: 148409

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 G7

New Haven, a book recording the varied activities of the author in his efforts over many years to promote the welfare of the city of his adoption since 1883, together with some researches into its storied past and many illustrations, by George Dudley Seymour ...

xxvi, 805 p. front., illus. (incl. ports., plans, facsims.) 25 cm.

Date: 1942.

Creators: Seymour, George Dudley, 1859-1945.

GUSN: 148410

Call Number: Stacks F104.N6 S37

The United Church on the green, New Haven, Connecticut; an architectural history.

47 p. illus. 24 cm.

Date: [1965]

Creators: Brown, Elizabeth Mills.

GUSN: 148411

Call Number: Stacks NA5235.N55 B7

Eighteenth century vignettes / by Austin Dobson.

261 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Date: 1892.

Creators: Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921. Dodd, Mead & Company. Cambridge University Press.

GUSN: 150972

Call Number: Rare Browne PR441.D5

The heroes, or, Greek fairy tales for my children / by the Rev. C. Kingsley ; with illustrations by the author.

320 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1856.

Creators: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.

GUSN: 150973

Call Number: Rare Browne PR4842.H6

Rameses to Rockefeller; the story of architecture.

xvi, 360 p. illus., plates, diagrs. 24 cm.

Date: [c1934]

Creators: Whitaker, Charles Harris, 1872-1938.

GUSN: 150974

Call Number: Rare Browne NA200.W5

An encyclopµdia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. By Joseph Gwilt ... illustrated with about seventeen hundred engravings on wood.

xiv, viii, 1443 p. incl. front., illus., diagrs. 23 cm.

Date: 1888.

Creators: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863. Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894.

GUSN: 150975

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2520.G94 1888

Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou, Abregâe de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poâesie & la musique; avec la dâefinition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. L**, avocat.

2 p. l., viii, 707, [3] p. 17 cm.

Date: 1752.

Creators: [Lacombe, Jacques] 1724-1811.

GUSN: 150976

Call Number: Rare N33.L3

A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental ... / which, with the best ancient authors are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, No. 56 High Holborn, London ...

16 p. ; cm.

Date: [19--?]

Creators: I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)

GUSN: 150977

Call Number: Rare Z5945.T3

Dictionnaire d'architecture, civile, militaire et navale, antique, ancienne et moderne : et de tous les arts et mâetiers qui en dâependent; dont tous les termes sont exprimâes, en franðcois, latin, italien, espagnol, anglois et allemand; enrichi de cent une planches de figures en taille-douce ... auquel on a joint une notice des architectes, ingâenieurs, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, & autres artistes les plus câeláebres, dont on rapporte les principaux ouvrages / par m. C.F. Roland le Virloys ...

3 v. : plates (part fold.. plans, diagrs. ' 29 cm.

Date: 1770.

Creators: Roland le Virloys, Charles Franðcois, 1716-1772.

GUSN: 150978

Call Number: Rare Browne NA31.R6 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Discourses on architecture, by Eugáene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc. Translated with an introductory essay, by Henry Van Brunt; illustrated with plates and woodcuts.

2 v. : ill ; 26 cm.

Date: 1875.

Creators: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugáene-Emmanuel, 1814-1879. Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903, tr.

GUSN: 150979

Call Number: Rare NA2520.V7 1875 vol.1 (and 1 more)

An historical essay on architecture. By the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany ...

2 v. 97 (i.e. 99) pl. (incl. plans) 26 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150980

Call Number: Rare NA200.H7 vol.1 (and 1 more)

The architecture of the Renaissance in Italy : a general view for the use of students and others.

xvii, 155 p. : ill., plates ; 24 cm.

Date: 1896.

Creators: Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900.

GUSN: 150981

Call Number: Rare Browne NA520.A5 1896

Zehn Tafeln Sèaulen-Ordnungen nebst Construktion der architektonischen Glieder / gezeichnet und mit erklèarendem Texte begleitet von L. Bergmann.

23 p. : [11] plates ; cm.

Date: [18--?]

Creators: Bergmann, Leo.

GUSN: 150982

Call Number: Rare Browne NA1068.B47

Cours d'architecture : qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bãatimens, & de ceux de Michel-Ange... Avec une ample explication par ordre alphabetique de tous les termes...

2 v. : ill., plates (part fold.) ; 21 cm.

Date: 1691.

Creators: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653-1701. Vignola, 1507-1573. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.

GUSN: 150983

Call Number: Stacks NA2515.A9 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Histoire physique, civile et morale des environs de Paris, : depuis les premiers temps historiques jusqu'a nos jours; contenant l'histoire et la description du pays et de tous les lieux remarquables compris dans un rayon de vingt-cinq áa trente lieues autour de la capitale; ... / Par J.A. Dulaure, ...

7 v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Date: 1825.-1828.

Creators: Dulaure, J.-A. (Jacques-Antoine), 1755-1835. Moreau, printer. Guillaume, publisher.

GUSN: 150984

Call Number: Rare DC768.D85 vol.1 (and 6 more)

A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita the latter / written in French by Roland Frâeart, sieur de Chambray; made English for the benefit of builders. To which is added An account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms, particularly affected by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn.

115 p. : ill. ; cm.

Date: 1733.

Creators: Frâeart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676. Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. The elements of architecture. Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. An account of architects and architecture ... with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues. Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De statua.

GUSN: 150985

Call Number: Rare Browne NA2812.F8 1733

Chateaux & manoirs de France ...

v. : ill., maps, plans, plates ; 23 cm.

Date: 1934-

GUSN: 150986

Call Number: Rare Browne NA7735.C48 vol.2

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