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Lost towns of New England /Renee Mallet.

108 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm, "New England is home to abandoned towns and forgotten main streets that once bustled with life and commerce. From villages sunk underwater to cities undone by the rise and fall of mill life, madness or just plain bad luck, these ghost towns offer a unique look into...

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Colonial Weymouth :the Forgotten Second Settlement /Mark Robert Schneider ; Maps by David Finney ; Photographs by Annemarie Reardon unless otherwise noted.

iii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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The best ever! :Parades in New England, 1788-1940 /Jane C. Nylander.

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm, "Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skel...

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The citizen poets of Boston :a collection of forgotten poems, 1789-1820 /Paul Lewis, editor.

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Arts and crafts jewelry in Boston :Frank Gardner Hale and his circle /Nonie Gadsen, Meghan Melvin, Emily Stoehrer.

190 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm, "A vibrant and active community of jewelry makers at the turn of the century in Boston, united by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, created works of wearable art that came to define the 'Boston look' -- characterized by color...

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American history, art, and culture :writings in honor of Jonathan Leo Fairbanks /Pat Warner and Gerald W.R. Ward, editors.

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

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American glass :the collections at Yale /John Stuart Gordon.

xi, 312 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm, "Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital a...

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Hands employed aright :the furniture making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) /Joshua A. Klein.

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

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Claggett :Newport's illustrious clockmakers /Donald L. Fennimore, Frank L. Hohmann III ; with an introduction by Dennis Carr.

268 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm, In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers William Claggett (1694-1748), James Wady (d. 1759), and Thomas Claggett (1730-1797)--individuals...

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Collecting Nantucket :artifacts from an island community /Michael R. Harrison.

x, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, "Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community highlights historic artifacts, documents, and works of art from the permanent collection of the Nantucket Historical Association. It tells the stories of these objects and of their creator...

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Nature's nation :American art and environment /Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Teddy Cruz, Rachael Z. DeLue, Mark Dion, Fonna Forman, Laura Turner Igoe, Robin Kelsey, Anne McClintock, Timothy Morton, Rob Nixon, Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Kimia Shahi, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm, "Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment offers a compelling new vision of American art, examining for the first time how artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding while contributing to the development of modern ...

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Concrete changes :architecture, politics, and the design of Boston City Hall /Brian M. Sirman.

ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm, 'From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new generation of politicians sw...

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Between city and country :Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia /Ronald Dale Karr.

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

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Weathervanes of New England /Glenn A. Knoblock and David W. Wemmer.

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "First used to gauge ever-changing weather, now viewed as American folk art, historic weathervanes have been a part of the skyline for more than three centuries. This comprehensive study of the development of the weathervane describes changes in form and functi...

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The world the trains made :a century of great railroad architecture in the United States and Canada /James D. Dilts.

xiv, 271 pages : color illustrations, plan ; 29 cm, The World the Trains Made will appeal to railroad and architecture buffs, preservationists considering the adaptive reuse of historic structures, and anyone concerned about our transportation priorities in the age of climate change--particularly wi...

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Battle green Vietnam :the 1971 march on Concord, Lexington, and Boston /Elise Lemire.

219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm, "Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston tells the story of how America's antiwar Vietnam veterans finally grabbed and held the national spotlight by simultaneously mobilizing two powerful tools: place and performance. The aim o...

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Poland Spring :a tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900 /David L. Richards.

x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm., "Between 1860 and 1900 the Ricker family's rustic frontier farm became the world-renowned summer community of Poland Spring, Maine, a "middle landscape" where upper-middle-class patrons and their urban values of status, leisure, and consumption confronted,...

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Wisteria House :life in a New England home, 1839-2000 /Susan J. Montgomery.

xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm, "Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839-2000 tells the story of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence,...

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The most costly journey :stories of migrant farmworkers in Vermont, drawn by New England cartoonists /edited by Marek Bennett, Julia Grand Doucet, Teresa Mares, Andy Kolovos.

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "The Most Costly Journey (El viaje más caro) is a collaboration between the Open Door Clinic, Vermont Folklife Center, UVM Extension Bridges to Health, UVM Anthropology, and Marek Bennett's Comics Workshop. [It] is an ethnographic cartooning project that emplo...

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Craft :an American history /Glenn Adamson.

387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm, "A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher., Examine any phase of our nation's struggle...

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Gund Partnership /introduction by Paul Goldberger ; [edited by Christa Mahar].

288 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm, "This book details the Modern architectural work of American architectual firm Gund Partnership between the years of 1994 and 2007. The principal of the firm is Graham Gund, a well known and respected American architect working in the Modernist traditi...

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Yale University Art Gallery bulletin.

volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

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The Big Dig at night /by Dan McNichol ; photographs by Stephen SetteDucati.

127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Spectacular photographs of Boston's Big Dig at night--and an inside account of what goes on while the city sleeps."

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American passage :the communications frontier in early New England /Katherine Grandjean.

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm, "We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-- not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a 'public print.' But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of l...

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Buried in shades of night :contested voices, Indian captivity, and the legacy of King Philip's war /Billy J. Stratton ; foreword by Frances Washburn ; afterword by George E. Tinker.

xvi, 203 pages ; 24 cm, "Billy J. Stratton's critical examination of Mary Rowlandson's 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase M...

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Brethren by nature :New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery /Margaret Ellen Newell.

xi, 316 pages ; 25 cm, "In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shap...

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A storm of witchcraft :the Salem trials and the American experience /Emerson W. Baker.

xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort thei...

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Unfreedom :slavery and dependence in eighteenth-century Boston /Jared Ross Hardesty.

xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "In Unfreedom, Jared Ross Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenth-century Boston. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part of a continuum of ...

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Paths, tracks, and trails :designing for pedestrians and cyclists /edited by Paolo Ceccon & Laura Zampieri.

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm, Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growing demand for the construction of pedestrian and cyclist paths internationally, and i...

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Green space in the community /edited by Steffan Robel.

248 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "Public Green Space in the Community refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important...

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American ceramics now /Twenty-seventh Ceramic National Exhibition ; [editor of catalogue, Thomas Piché, Jr.].

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

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Creations in clay :contemporary New England ceramics /[foreword by Susan Strickler ; introduction by Gillian Nagler ; essay by Gerry Williams.

40 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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A spectacle in motion :the grand panorama of a whaling voyage 'round the world.

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 28 cm, "This two-volume publication dives into the detail and narrative of the Panorama and allows people to quite literally hold the entire artwork in the palm of their hands. A maritime artwork of national historical importance, the Panorama is a fi...

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American furniture 2018 /edited by Luke Beckerdite.

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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The Newport experience :sustaining historic preservation into the 21st century /Jeannine Falino ; foreword by Denis de Kergorlay, afterword by Trudy Coxe, edited by Terry Dickinson, Lise Dube-Scherr, Katherine Garrett-Cox, and Gary Ruff.

xx, 162 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm, "Preserving historic houses. Preserving Colonial-era Georgian to Gilded Age mansions. History of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, 75 years. Conservation of American architecture, decorative arts and landscape...

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An American palace :Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House /David Bagnall ; with an introduction by Richard H. Driehaus.

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm

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Edwin Lutyens :country houses : from the archives of Country life /Gavin Stamp.

192 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson th...

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Great houses of London /James Stourton ; photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg.

328 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm, The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. From the romantic 17th century Ashburn...

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The White House :the history of an American idea /William Seale.

xiv, 336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, For two centuries the White House has served not only as the official residence of the president of the United States, but as the symbolic home of its owners, the American people. The White House: The History of an American Idea celebrates the man...

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Technology in the country house /Marilyn Palmer and Ian West.

ix, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

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The National Trust book of great houses of Britain /Nigel Nicolson.

287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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Through an uncommon lens :the life and photography of F. Holland Day /Patricia J. Fanning.

xxiii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm, "Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Ka...

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The national Capitol :its architecture, art and history /by George C. Hazelton, Jr. ; illustrated.

[8], 287 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans ; 24 cm

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The Train on the Beach :Forgotten Railroads that Transformed Winthrop, Orient Heights, and Revere Beach, Massachusetts /William Lieberman.

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Boston history for kids :from Red Coats to Red Sox with 21 activities /Richard Panchyk ; foreword by Michael Dukakis.

ix, 129 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm, "Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revolutionary War and its many contributions to art and literature, Boston has earned its reputation as a m...

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House stories :the meanings of home in a New England town /Beth Luey.

x, 182 pages ; 23 cm, "Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the country. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes rea...

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United tastes :the making of the first American cookbook /Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald.

xi, 351 pages ; 24 cm, "The Library of Congress has designated American Cookery (1796) by Amelia Simmons one of the eighty-eight 'Books That Shaped America.' Its recognition as 'the first American cookbook' has attracted an enthusiastic modern audience of historians, food journalists, and general re...

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Circle around Monadnock :time travel with horses /Francelia Mason Clark with Pam Godin and Shelley Mozier.

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm, "Finding and following one of New Hampshire's oldest trails into history--on horseback . . . Francelia Clark finds and follows one of the oldest trails in New Hampshire's Monadnock region into history--on horseback. Along the way she stu...

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The music of early American clocks, 1730-1830 /Kate Van Winkle Keller and Gary R. Sullivan.

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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H.H. Richardson :three architectural tours /Ken Bressler.

103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm