Historic New England

The Bounty :the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander.

491 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm, An account of the events surrounding the conflict aboard the HMS Bounty focuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talen...

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: Alexander, Caroline, 1956-

GUSN: 359240

Call Number: Coll DU20 $b.A53 2003

Beyond midnight :Paul Revere : September 2019 - October 2020 New-York Historical Society, Worcester Art Museum, Concord Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art /Jennifer L. Anderson, Lauren B. Hewes, Robert Martello, Nancy Siegel, Nan Wolverton ; ed. by Lauren B. Hewes and Nan Wolverton.

101 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Date: Ã2019.

Creators: Anderson, Jennifer L., 1966- Hewes, Lauren B. Martello, Robert, 1968- Siegel, Nancy. Wolverton, Nan. American Antiquarian Society.

GUSN: 359241

Call Number: Coll N6537.R437 $b A4 2019

Homer at the beach :a marine painter's journey, 1869-1880 /William R. Cross ; prelude by John Wilmerding.

xi, 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 x 30 cm

Creators: Cross, William R., 1959- Wilmerding, John, author. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359242

Call Number: Coll ND237.H7 A4 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Those misunderstood Puritans /Samuel Eliot Morison ; with an introduction by Francis J. Bremer.

31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1992.

Creators: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

GUSN: 359243

Call Number: Coll F7 $b.M84 1992

Calvin in America /International Museum of the Reformation ; Texts, Gabriel de Montmollin ; with the collaboration of Jacques Légeret, Samantha Reichenbach and Hanna Woodhead ; English translation, Hanna Woodhead.

152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Creators: Montmollin, Gabriel de. Légeret, Jacques. Reichenbach, Samantha. Woodhead, Hanna. Musée international de la Réforme (Geneva, Switzerland)

GUSN: 359244

Call Number: Coll BX9415 $b.C35 2020

Majolica mania :transatlantic pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915 /Susan Weber ; with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin, and Laura Microulis, editors.

3 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm, "The first comprehensive study of one of the most significant innovations in nineteenth-century ceramics, this three-volume exhibition catalogue considers the principal designers and manufacturers of majolica, the ware's broad dissemination, and its...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor. Arbuthnott, Catherine, editor. Briggs, Jo, editor. Hughes, Eleanor, 1971- editor. Martin, Earl (Earl James), 1974- editor. Microulis, Laura, editor. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.),

GUSN: 359245

Call Number: Coll NK4320.U5 $b M35 2020

Gem identification made easy :a hands-on guide to more confident buying & selling /Antoinette L. Matlins & A.C. Bonanno.

xvii, 270 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Date: Ã1989.

Creators: Matlins, Antoinette Leonard. Bonanno, Antonio C.

GUSN: 359246

Call Number: Coll QE392.M33 1989

Form & function :American modernist jewelry, 1940-1970 /Marbeth Schon.

256 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, This book features the work of 96 jewellers, whose jewellery was experimental and inspired originality in successive generations. It includes work by Alexander Calder, Harry Bertoia, Arline Fisch, Albert Paley, and Peter Macchiarini.

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Schon, Marbeth.

GUSN: 359247

Call Number: Coll NK7312.S338 2008

Miller's costume jewelry /Judith Miller.

256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, A comprehensive introduction to costume jewelry, from ancient times to the present. Includes information on the designers and their inspirations, as well as showing hundreds of beautiful designs and the marks to look for.

Date: Ã2010.

Creators: Miller, Judith, 1951-

GUSN: 359248

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 M555 2010

The Napier Co. idefining 20th century American costume jewelry /Melinda Lewis, with Henry Swen.

xxix, 1011 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm, The Napier Jewelry book is a visual encyclopedia of Napier Costume Jewelry. It tells the heretofore untold and phenomenal story of The Napier Co. inception, development, flowering, and ultimate success. It chronicles the history of its manage...

Date: 2013.

Creators: Lewis, Melinda L. Swen, Henry.

GUSN: 359249

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 L49 2013

Radical tradition :American quilts and social change /Lauren Applebaum, Toledo Museum of Art.

99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "Disrupting our expectations of quilts as objects that provide warmth and comfort, Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change explores the complicated and often overlooked stories quilts tell about the American experience. The more than thirty quilts...

Creators: Applebaum, Lauren, author. Toledo Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359250

Call Number: Coll TT835 $b.A67 2020

American costume jewelry :art & industry, 1935-1950 /Roberto Brunialti & Carla Ginelli Brunialti.

2 volumes : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã2008.

Creators: Brunialti, Roberto. Brunialti, Carla Ginelli.

GUSN: 359251

Call Number: Coll NK4890.C67 B786 2008

Village Hall, historic structure report :Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York /by Stacey A. Matson [and others].

xi, 163 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1988.

Creators: Matson, Stacey A. Cultural Resources Center (United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office). Building Conservation Branch. United States. National Park Service.

GUSN: 359272

Call Number: Coll F129.S6124 $b V55 1988

Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York /Louise M. DeCesare.

viii, 68 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Date: 1990.

Creators: DeCesare, Louise M., author. United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office. Division of Cultural Resources.

GUSN: 359273

Call Number: Coll F129.O98 $b A7 1990

Gadsby's Tavern Museum :historic furnishing plan /Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Ellen Kirven Donald.

xv, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 27 cm

Date: 1980.

Creators: Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan. Donald, Ellen Kirven.

GUSN: 359274

Call Number: Coll F234.A3 $b S69 1980

Rapidan Camp :"the Brown House," Shenandoah National Park /by Laurel A. Racine.

2 volumes in 1 (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.

Date: [2001]

Creators: Racine, Laurel A. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359275

Call Number: Coll E802 $b.R33 2001

Historic furnishings report, Rotch-Jones-Duff House /Janice Hodson.

2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm., Greek revival style mansion in New Bedford Mass., built in 1834.

Date: 2005-[2008]

Creators: Hodson, Janice. United States. National Park Service. Northeast Museum Services Center.

GUSN: 359276

Call Number: Coll F74.N5 $b H74 2005

Alex Katz /edited by Vincent Katz ; essay by Carter Ratcliff.

412 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm, The definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development o...

Creators: Katz, Alex, 1927- artist. Ratcliff, Carter, contributor. Katz, Vincent, 1960- editor.

GUSN: 359336

Call Number: Coll ND237.K33 A85 2020

Martha's Vineyard through time :tourism and the cleansing sea /A. C. Theokas.

96 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Creators: Theokas, Andrew C., author.

GUSN: 359337

Call Number: Stacks F72.M5 $b T45 2021

Ghosts of Plymouth, Massachusetts /Darcy H. Lee.

125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Creators: Lee, Darch H., author.

GUSN: 359338

Call Number: Stacks BF1472.U6 $b L436 2017

Diseño y cultura :una introducción : desde 1900 hasta la actualidad /Penny Sparke.

285 p. : il. ; 24 cm., El diseño constituye hoy uno de los principales motores de la economía cultural así como la más poderosa herramienta para reconfigurar una de las preocupaciones clave de la contemporaneidad: la identidad individual y social. Vivimos en una sociedad modelada en gran medida a tr...

Date: D.L. 2010.

Creators: Sparke, Penny.

GUSN: 359339

Call Number: Stacks NK1390.S6318 2010

Building old Cambridge :architecture and development /Susan E. Maycock and Charles M. Sullivan.

xxi, 944 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 27 cm, Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly as the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then became the site of Harvard College. This abundant...

Creators: Maycock, Susan E., 1943- author. Sullivan, Charles, 1940- author. Cambridge Historical Commission.

GUSN: 359340

Call Number: Stacks NA735.C28 M39 2016

White on white :churches of rural New England /photographs by Steve Rosenthal ; essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg ; afterword by Robert Campbell.

135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cm

Date: Ã2009.

Creators: Rosenthal, Steve, 1940- Klinkenborg, Verlyn.

GUSN: 359341

Call Number: Stacks NA5215 $b.R67 2009

Maine photography :a history, 1840-2015 /Libby Bischof, Susan Danly, Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.

198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Bischof, Libby, author. Danly, Susan, author. Shettleworth, Earle G., Jr., 1948- author.

GUSN: 359342

Call Number: Stacks TR24.M2 M36 2016

Dining out in Boston :a culinary history /James C. O'Connell.

304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm, "Over the years, Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O'Connell, in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinar...

Creators: O'Connell, James C., author.

GUSN: 359343

Call Number: Stacks GT2853.U5 O25 2017

The maker's hand :American studio furniture, 1940-1990 /Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Gerald W.R. Ward, and Kelly H. L'Ecuyer ; with the assistance of Pat Warner.

168 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., "The Maker's Hand is one of the first books about the studio furniture movement, and no doubt the most authoritive. Written by two leading experts in the field, it details the history and development of studio furniture, from its origins in post-World War II America through i...

Date: c2003.

Creators: Cooke, Edward S. Ward, Gerald W. R. L'Ecuyer, Kelly H. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 297634

Call Number: Coll. NK2408.C58 2003

American chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale,by John T. Kirk.

208 pages illustrations 32 cm

Date: 1972.

Creators: Kirk, John T.

GUSN: 297635

Call Number: Coll. NK2715.K5 1972

Portfolio of photographs of the World's Fair.

16 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 29 x 35 cm.

Date: 1893-1894.

GUSN: 302360

Call Number: Ovr. T500 .C1 P67

In plain sight :discovering the furniture of Nathaniel Gould /Kemble Widmer and Joyce King ; with essays by Glenn Adamson, Daniel Finamore, Dean Lahikainen and Elisabeth Garrett Widmer.

pages cm

Creators: Widmer, Kemble, author. Hidden in plain sight. Gould, Nathaniel, 1731-1781. Furniture.

GUSN: 303518

Call Number: Coll. NK2439.G68 A4 2014 c.1 (and 2 more)

Culinary ephemera :an illustrated history /William Woys Weaver.

xiii, 299 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm., "This collection, a trove of designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels,...

Date: c2010.

Creators: Weaver, William Woys, 1947-

GUSN: 303561

Call Number: 85M Stacks GT2853.U5 W43 2010

Charles Magnus, lithographer :illustrating America's past, 1850-1900 /by E. Richard McKinstry.

xiii, 185 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Creators: McKinstry, E. Richard. Magnus, Charles.

GUSN: 303562

Call Number: Stacks NE2303.7.M158 2013

Life on a whaler,or Antarctic adventures in the Isle of Desolation,by Nathaniel W. Taylor, M.D., 1858; illustrated by William T. Peters of the U.S. Japan expedition. Narrative of a whaling voyage from New London, Connecticut, August 18, 1851, to June 4, 1853. Edited by Howard Palmer ...

2 preliminary leaves, xix, 208 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including maps) plates (1 double) portrait 23 cm

Date: 1929.

Creators: Taylor, Nathaniel William, 1823-1875. Palmer, Howard, 1883- editor.

GUSN: 303563

Call Number: Stacks G545.T3

Mario Buatta :fifty years of American interior decoration /Mario Buatta with Emily Evans Eerdmans ; foreword by Paige Rense.

429 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm, "The eagerly anticipated first monograph to celebrate the fifty-years-and-counting career of decorating legend Mario Buatta. Influenced by the understated elegance of Colefax and Fowler and the doyenne of exuberant American decor, Sister Parish, Buatt...

Creators: Buatta, Mario, author. Eerdmans, Emily, author. Rense, Paige, writer of added commentary.

GUSN: 303564

Call Number: Coll. NK2004.3.B83 A4 2013

Master carver :from Germany's passion play village to America's finest sanctuaries : Johannes Kirchmayer, 1860-1930 /[F. Shirley Prouty ; foreword by Gerald W. R. Ward].

xi, 124 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 2007.

Creators: Prouty, F. Shirley (Florence Shirley) Ward, Gerald W. R.

GUSN: 303565

Call Number: Stacks NK9798.K57 P76 2007 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Chesapeake house :architectural investigation by Colonial Williamsburg /edited by Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury.

xi, 471 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of...

Creators: Carson, Cary, editor of compilation. Lounsbury, Carl, editor of compilation. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,

GUSN: 303566

Call Number: Stacks NA7235.M32 C485 2013

The historic armories of Rhode Island /Howard F. Brown [and] Roberta Mudge Humble.

viii, 149 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Date: 2000.

Creators: Brown, Howard F. Humble, Roberta Mudge.

GUSN: 303567

Call Number: Stacks UF544.R45 B7 2000

The race underground :Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway /Doug Most.

viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, "In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers--Henry M...

Creators: Most, Doug.

GUSN: 303568

Call Number: Stacks HE4491.B782 M67 2014

Newport revisited /Rob lewis and Ryan A. Young.

128 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c2001.

Creators: Lewis, Rob. Young, Ryan A.

GUSN: 303569

Call Number: Stacks F89.N5 L491 2001

"With éclat" :the Boston Athenaeum and the origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston /Hina Hirayama.

235 pages ; 27 cm

Creators: Hirayama, Hina, 1964-

GUSN: 303579

Call Number: Book Prize N521.A8 H57 2013 (and 1 more)

Curiosities of the craft :treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts collection /Aimee E. Newell, Hilary Anderson Stelling, Catherine Compton Swanson.

287 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Date: 2013.

Creators: Newell, Aimee E. Swanson, Catherine Compton. Stelling, Hilary Anderson.

GUSN: 303580

Call Number: Book Prize HS537.M45 N49 2013 (and 2 more)

Harper's new monthly magazine.

101 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24-28 cm.

Date: [1850-c1900]

Creators: Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919. John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 303581

Call Number: Stacks AP2.H3 v. XVI (and 2 more)

Luminaries of early West Barnstable :the stories of a Cape Cod village /James H. Ellis.

No description

Creators: Ellis, James H., 1932-

GUSN: 303582

Call Number: Stacks F74.W423 E45 2014

Prudence Crandall's legacy :the fight for equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education /Donald E. Williams Jr.

xiv, 450 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.

Creators: Williams, Donald E., author.

GUSN: 303583

Call Number: Stacks LA2317.C73 W55 2014

Seeing Gertrude Stein :five stories /Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer.

ix, 403 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm, Gertrude Stein is justly famous for her modernist writings and her patronage of vanguard painters (most notably Matisse and Picasso) in Paris before the First World War. This work is the companion book to an exhibition of the same name, ...

Date: Ã2011.

Creators: Corn, Wanda M. Latimer, Tirza True. Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.) National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

GUSN: 303584

Call Number: Stacks PS3537.T323 Z56 2011

City water, city life :water and the infrastructure of ideas in urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago /Carl Smith.

xii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people wh...

Creators: Smith, Carl S., author.

GUSN: 303585

Call Number: 85M Stacks TD223.S64 2013

Boston beer :a history of brewing in the Hub /Norman Miller ; foreword by Kerry J. Byrne.

142 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm, "Explore the celebrated brewing history and beer culture of Boston"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Miller, Norman, 1974-

GUSN: 303586

Call Number: Stacks TP577.M56 2014

African American Connecticut explored /edited by Elizabeth J. Normen ; with Katherine J. Harris, Stacey K. Close, and Wm. Frank Mitchell.

422 pages : llustrations ; 27 cm.

Creators: Normen, Elizabeth J.

GUSN: 303587

Call Number: 85M Stacks E185.93.C7 A47 2013

Tobacco sheds :vanishing treasures in the Connecticut River Valley /Dale and Darcy Cahill.

112 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Creators: Cahill, Dale F., author. Cahill, Darcy, author.

GUSN: 303588

Call Number: Stacks NA8230.C15 2013

For kith and kin :the folk art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago /Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski.

120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 25 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. The detailed entries in this text serve as an introduction to an array of masterworks, from New England portraits to New Mexican ceramics and Oh...

Date: Ã2012.

Creators: Barter, Judith A., 1951- Obniski, Monica. Art Institute of Chicago.

GUSN: 303589

Call Number: Coll. NK805.A78 2012

The Boston Floating Hospital :how a Boston harbor barge changed the course of pediatric medicine : the first one hundred years /Lucie Prinz ; with Jacoba Van Schaik.

177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Prinz, Lucie, 1931- Van Schaik, Jacoba, author.

GUSN: 303590

Call Number: Stacks RJ28.B7 P75 2014

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