Historic New England

Interior design and decoration.

vi, 699 pages illustrations 25 cm

Date: [1974]

Creators: Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, 1887-1961. Elements of interior design and decoration.

GUSN: 359546

Call Number: Coll NK2110.W55 1974

Early American wall stencils in color :full-size patterns traced in New England homes and stencils from early coverlets, together with complete directions showing how anyone can use them with ease /Alice Bancroft Fjelstul and Patricia Brown Schad with Barbara Marhoefer.

137 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: 1989.

Creators: Fjelstul, Alice Bancroft. Schad, Patricia Brown. Marhoefer, Barbara.

GUSN: 359547

Call Number: Coll TT270.F44 1989

Manufacturing modernism :Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, the W.C. Vaughan Co. /H. Reynolds Butler.

290, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 28 x 30 cm

Creators: Reynolds Butler, H., writer of added commentary. McMahon, Peter, 1957- author of introduction, etc.

GUSN: 359548

Call Number: Coll NA737.B68 M3 2018

Forgotten voices :the hidden history of a New England meetinghouse /Carolyn Wakeman.

ix, 273 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm, Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, 'Facing the Past' uncovers a hidden past. It begins with the displacement of Indigenous people in the area before Europeans arrived, continues with disputes ove...

Creators: Wakeman, Carolyn, author.

GUSN: 359549

Call Number: Stacks F104.O36 W35 2019

Recipes for respect :African American meals and meaning /Rafia Zafar.

137 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm., "Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a small tributary. Rec...

Creators: Zafar, Rafia, author.

GUSN: 359550

Call Number: Stacks E185.89.F66 Z34 2019

Restoring your historic house :the comprehensive guide for homeowners /Scott T. Hanson ; with photography by David J. Clough.

viii, 710 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm, This book does not repeat basic information that is readily available in many standard DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Rather, it shows how to adapt those DIY skills to the specialized needs of a historic house. Although there...

Creators: Hanson, Scott T., author. Clough, David J., photographer.

GUSN: 359551

Call Number: Stacks TH4816.H36 2019

Elmer Crowell :father of American bird carving, featuring masterworks from the Thomas M. Evans Jr. collection /by Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. and Chelsie W. Olney.

304 pages : color illustrations, photographs (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Creators: O'Brien, Stephen B., author. Olney, Chlesie W.

GUSN: 359552

Call Number: Coll NK4890.5 O37 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

Rufus Porter's curious world :art and invention in America, 1815-1860 /edited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff.

xiii, 137 pages : color illustrations, color facsimilies ; 27 x 29 cm, "An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innova...

Creators: Sprague, Laura Fecych, 1954- editor. Wolff, Justin P., editor. Pennsylvania State University Press, Bowdoin College. Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359553

Call Number: Coll ND237.P8135 R84 2019

Doris Duke's Shangri La :a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art /edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm, Features Doris Duke's estate, Shangri La, and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diam...

Creators: Mellins, Thomas. Albrecht, Donald. Pope, Deborah. Komaroff, Linda, 1953- Street-Porter, Tim. Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

GUSN: 359554

Call Number: Stacks NA7511.4.H66 D67 2012

Riches, rivals & radicals :100 years of museums in America /Marjorie Schwarzer.

x, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm, "As author Marjorie Schwarzer tells us, a look at the past century of America's museums reveals a captivating if slightly imperfect real-life masterpiece, flowing with a vibrant palette of wealth and ambition, accented by bold patches of jealousy, g...

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Schwarzer, Marjorie, 1957- American Association of Museums.

GUSN: 359555

Call Number: Coll AM11.S35 2006

Warren H. Manning, landscape architect and environmental planner /edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback.

xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 29 cm., Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, pa...

Creators: Karson, Robin S., editor. Brown, Jane Roy, editor. Allaback, Sarah, 1965- editor. Library of American Landscape History.

GUSN: 359556

Call Number: Stacks SB470.M25 W37 2017

William Kent :designing Georgian Britain /edited by Susan Weber ; with contributions by Catherine Arbuthnott [and 14 others].

xiii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm, "The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his...

Creators: Weber, Susan, 1954- editor.

GUSN: 359557

Call Number: Coll N6797.K4 W53 2013

Elizabethan architecture :its rise and fall, 1540-1640 /Mark Girouard.

xx, 516 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm,

Creators: Girouard, Mark, 1931- author.

GUSN: 359558

Call Number: Stacks NA965.G57 2009

Houses of the National Trust :outstanding buildings of Britain /Lydia Greeves.

400 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm, "The National Trust is one of the world's leading conservation organisations and now cares for over 350 historic properties, including over 200 houses. This book covers both great mansions, such as Petworth House and Kedleston Hall, and less grand, but equall...

Date: 2008.

Creators: Greeves, Lydia.

GUSN: 359559

Call Number: Stacks DA660.G745 2008

Guastavino vaulting :the art of structural tile /John Ochsendorf ; photographs by Michael Freeman.

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Date: 2010.

Creators: Ochsendorf, John Allen. Freeman, Michael, 1945-

GUSN: 359560

Call Number: Stacks NA737.G79 O28 2010

The mate of the Daylight, and friends ashore /by Sarah Orne Jewett.

254 pages ; 16 cm

Creators: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author. Whitman, Sarah, book designer. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909. Landless farmer. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359561

Call Number: Stacks PS2132.M38 1884

Drawn from nature & on stone :the lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane /Georgia B. Barnhill, Melissa Geisler Trafton.

105 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm, An exhibition catalog accompanying the exhibition, Drawn from Nature & on Stone : The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, at the Cape Ann Museum October 7, 2017-March 4, 2018.

Creators: Barnhill, Georgia Brady, 1944- author. Oaks, Martha, writer of foreword. Trafton, Melissa Geisler, author. Lane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865. Lithographs. Cape Ann Museum,

GUSN: 359562

Call Number: Coll ND237.L27 C36 2017

Rediscovering an American Community of Color :the photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917 /Nancy Kathryn Burns, Janette Thomas Greenwood.

127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 31 cm, This book presents a photographic narrative of African American and Native American migration and resettlement in the aftermath of emancipation and reconstruction. Taken between 1897 and 1917 by itinerant photographer William Bullard of Worcester, M...

Creators: Bullard, William, 1876-1918, photographer. Burns, Nancy Kathryn, editor, author. Greenwood, Janette Thomas, editor, author. Worcester Art Museum, Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)

GUSN: 359563

Call Number: Stacks F74.W9 R43 2017

Musical clocks of early America, 1730-1830 :a catalogue raisonné /Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller.

389 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, The 130 remarkable clocks documented by this study represent a high poin in the careers of American craftsmen between 1730 and 1830 ... This is the true story--the story of gifted immigrants from Europe who passed clockmaking skills to others, of clever local...

Creators: Sullivan, Gary R. Keller, Kate Van Winkle. Willard House and Clock Museum (North Grafton, Mass.)

GUSN: 359564

Call Number: Coll TS540.7.S85 M87 2017 c.1 (and 1 more)

Country acres and cul-de-sacs :Connecticut circle magazine reimagines the Nutmeg State, 1938-1952 /edited by Jay Gitlin.

xv, 301 pages ; 31 cm, "Examines how "Connecticut Circle" magazine helped shape the state of Connecticut between 1938 and 1952."--Provided by publisher.

Creators: Gitlin, Jay, editor.

GUSN: 359565

Call Number: Stacks F100.C6632 2019

Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson :rediscovering the founding fathers of American architecture /Hugh Howard.

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm, Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale...

Date: 2006.

Creators: Howard, Hugh, 1952-

GUSN: 359566

Call Number: Stacks NA2543.S6 H69 2006

The power of objects in eighteenth-century British America /Jennifer Van Horn.

xvii, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm., "Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. [Van Horn] investigates these diverse artifacts--from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic d...

Creators: Van Horn, Jennifer, author. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,

GUSN: 359592

Call Number: Coll E162.V36 2017

Suspended worlds :historic theater scenery in northern New England /Christine Hadsel ; with contributions from Peter Gilbert, Richard Kerschner, Mary Jo Davis and Peter Miller ; photography by Carolyn L. Bates.

xii, 188 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm, A glorious celebration of historic stage scenery in northern New England. Painted between 1890 and 1940, the curtains can be as luminous as a Hudson valley landscape, or as simple as a cluster of local advertisements surrounding a generic, rural, f...

Creators: Hadsel, Christine, author.

GUSN: 359593

Call Number: Coll ND2887.U6 H33 2015

The Mystic River :a natural and human history and recreation guide including Winchester, Arlington, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Chelsea, Everett, Charlestown, Cambridge & Belmont /Richard H. Beinecke.

297 pages

Date: [2013].

Creators: Beinecke, Richard H, author.

GUSN: 359919

Call Number: Stacks F72.M7 B45 2013

The Naylor collection :the complete history of photography /[creative direction, Jonathan Barkan ; photography, Brian Smith and others].

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 42 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound : color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Date: Ã2005.

Creators: Naylor, Thurman F. Barkan, Jonathan. Smith, Brian (Photographer)

GUSN: 359995

Call Number: Stacks TR655.N39 2005

Gamble House :Building paradise in California /essays by Edward R. Bosley, Anne Mallek, Ann Scheid, and Robert Winter ; photographs by Alexander Vertikoff.

200 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm, "For more than a century the Gamble House has stood on a promontory overlooking the Arroyo Seco, a thin riverbed that meanders down from the San Gabriel Mountains through Pasadena, California. For much of that time the house has been open to the public. More ...

Date: 2015.

Creators: Bosley, Edward R. Mallek, Anne E. Scheid, Ann, 1940- Winter, Robert. Vertikoff, Alexander.

GUSN: 359996

Call Number: Stacks NA7238.P37 G36 2015

Global objects :toward a connected art history /Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

327 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm, "The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze in ancient China, architecture in ancient Rome, or oil painti...

Creators: Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- author.

GUSN: 359997

Call Number: Coll NK1105.C67 2022

Experiencing American houses :understanding how domestic architecture works /Elizabeth Collins Cromley.

xviii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "This book encourages readers to think creatively about buildings in terms of their function and how these functions have changed over time in American history. The work presents material culture as lived experience and is designed to expand the encounter w...

Creators: Cromley, Elizabeth C., author.

GUSN: 359998

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.C755 2022

The Saturday Evening Girls Club /Jane Healey.

242 pages ; 21 cm, For the young women living in Boston's North End in 1908, the Saturday Evening Girls Club is an escape from the drudgery of daily life. For Caprice, Ada, Maria and Thea, it's the one time each week the friends can be together. They support each other's dreams and help each other n...

Creators: Healey, Jane (Freelance journalist), author.

GUSN: 357795

Call Number: Stacks PS3608.E2354 S28 2017

At home :historic houses of Central and Western Massachusetts /Beth Luey.

ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "With its rich history of prominent families, Massachusetts is home to some of the most historic residences in the country. In the central and western half of the Commonwealth, these include Edith Wharton's The Mount, the Salisbury Mansion in Worcester, Herman...

Creators: Luey, Beth, author.

GUSN: 357847

Call Number: Stacks F65.L838 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

In search of Amos Clough /Robert W. Averill.

viii, 370 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm + 1 stereoscope., "The story of Amos F. Clough, a pioneering photographer of the White Mountains, has rested in obscurity for a century and a half. Born and raised before the Civil War in the rural New Hampshire town of Warren, Cl...

Creators: Averill, R. W. (Robert White), 1950- author. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Journal of events &c whilst on the mountain. Clough, Amos F. (Amos Franklin), 1833-1872. Photographs.

GUSN: 357849

Call Number: Stacks TR140.C56 A94 2019 c.1 (and 1 more)

At first light :two centuries of Maine artists, their homes and studios /Anne Collins Goodyear, Frank H. Goodyear III, Michael K. Komanecky ; foreword by Stuart Kestenbaum ; photography by Walter Smalling Jr.

238 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm, "Chronicles twenty-six ... artists of the last two hundred years who have lived and worked in Maine. Published to coincide with the state's bicentennial in 2020, the volume considers the significant contributions artists have made to a deeper and more profoun...

Creators: Goodyear, Anne Collins, author. Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- author. Komanecky, Michael, author. Kestenbaum, Stuart, writer of foreword. Smalling, Walter, photographer.

GUSN: 357851

Call Number: Stacks N6530.M2 G66 2020 c.1 (and 2 more)

Visionary New England /edited by Sarah Montross ; with contributions by Sam Adams [and seven others].

147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm, New England has a rich history of spiritual, mystical, and utopian strivers. Their visionary schemes range from nineteenth-century Transcendentalist experiments in communal living at Brook Farm and Fruitlands to the Harvard Project's LSD research, led ...

Creators: Montross, Sarah J., editor. Adams, Sam, contributor. deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,

GUSN: 357853

Call Number: Stacks N515.V57 2020

Rescued from oblivion :historical cultures in the early United States /Alea Henle.

x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., "In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnes...

Creators: Henle, Alea R., author.

GUSN: 357855

Call Number: Coll E172.H45 2020

Shaker fever :America's twentieth-century fascination with a communitarian sect /William D. Moore.

xi, 430 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm., "Americans were enthralled by the Shakers in the years between 1925 and 1965. They bought Shaker furniture, saw Shaker worship services enacted on Broadway, sang Shaker songs, dressed in Shaker-inspired garb, collected Shaker artifacts, and restor...

Creators: Moore, William D., 1963- author.

GUSN: 357858

Call Number: Stacks NX504.M66 2020

How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940 /Thomas C. Hubka.

xxvi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm., "The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"-- Provided by publisher.

Creators: Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- author.

GUSN: 357861

Call Number: Stacks HD6983.H83 2020

Ancestors and descendants of Robert Alfred Sands & Kate Van Volkenburgh :enduring relations /compiled by Henry B. Hoff ; with contributions and recollections by Nancy Sands Maulsby ; edited by Penelope L. Stratton.

xv, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps (some color) ; 27 cm, "When Robert Alfred Sands married Kate Van Volkenburgh in 1890, two longtime New York families were joined. Sons of the immigrant James Sands arrived in New York in the 1690s. Lambert Van Valkenburch arrived ...

Creators: Hoff, Henry B. (Henry Bainbridge), author. Maulsby, Nancy Sands, author. Stratton, Penny, editor. New England Historic Genealogical Society.

GUSN: 357864

Call Number: Stacks CS71.S22 2018

Daughters of painted ladies :America's resplendent victorians /Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen ; photographs by Douglas Keister.

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm, Describes and illustrates the effects of the San Francisco-based Colorist movement on Victorian-style buildings around the United States.

Date: Ã1987.

Creators: Pomada, Elizabeth. Larsen, Michael, 1941-

GUSN: 359123

Call Number: Stacks NA7207.P65 1987

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house /by Eric Hodgins ; illustrated by William Steig.

237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, "Problems of a New Yorker building a house in the suburbs." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation., An $11,000 farm house becomes a dream house costing $56,263.97.

Creators: Hodgins, Eric, 1899-1971, author. Steig, William, 1907-2003, illustrator.

GUSN: 359124

Call Number: Stacks PS3515.O1714 M4

Women's views :the narrative stereograph in nineteenth-century America /Melody Davis.

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 3D viewer.

Creators: Davis, Melody D., 1959- author.

GUSN: 359125

Call Number: Stacks TR780.D38 2015

Jewels :a secret history /Victoria Finlay.

xvi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm, A history of gemstones brings together the lore and legends of fabulous jewels, from ancient times to the present day, offering tales, trivia, and secrets about diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, opals, and other precious and semi-precious stones.

Date: Ã2006.

Creators: Finlay, Victoria.

GUSN: 359208

Call Number: Coll TS740.F56 2006

Tiara /Diana Scarisbrick.

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm, The tiara has played a glittering role in the lives of the elegant and extravagant -- from the doe-eyed Audrey Hepburn in the film classic Roman Holiday to generations of England's royal family -- representing the height of sophisticated glamour. Worn ...

Date: Ã2000.

Creators: Scarisbrick, Diana. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GUSN: 359209

Call Number: Coll NK7423.S28 2000

Love entwined :the curious history of hairwork in America /Helen Sheumaker.

xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, "In the largely forgotten craft of hairwork, practiced widely in nineteenth-century America, the hair of loved ones - living and deceased - was woven into jewelry, wall decorations, and keepsakes. Rings, bracelets, lockets, and brooches were set with metalwork ...

Date: 2007.

Creators: Sheumaker, Helen.

GUSN: 359210

Call Number: Coll NK6076.S54 2007

Bedazzled :5,000 years of jewellery : the Walters Art Museum /Sabine Albersmeier.

64 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Date: 2005.

Creators: Albersmeier, Sabine.

GUSN: 359211

Call Number: Coll NK7302.B35 W353 2005

The complete poetical works of Edna Dean Proctor.

xxvi, 411 pages frontispiece (portrait) 21 cm

Date: 1925.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923.

GUSN: 359212

Call Number: Stacks PS2665.A2 1925

Songs of America, and other poems /by Edna Dean Proctor.

viii, 123 pages ; 20 cm

Date: 1905.

Creators: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923. Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

GUSN: 359213

Call Number: Stacks PS2667.S63

The glitter & the gold :fashioning America's jewelry /Ulysses Grant Dietz [and others].

189 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm, Most of the exhibits were made in or near Newark, but are drawn frrom various public and private American collections, including the Newark Museum itself.

Date: Ã1997.

Creators: Dietz, Ulysses G. (Ulysses Grant), 1955- Newark Museum.

GUSN: 359214

Call Number: Coll TS723.G55 1997

Earl Pardon's portable art :jewelry & design /with essays by Sarah Schleuning, Berry Lowden Perkins.

100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Creators: Pardon, Earl B., designer. Schleuning, Sarah, author. Perkins, Berry Lowden, author. High Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359215

Call Number: Coll NK7398.P37 A4x 2015

John Rogers :American stories /edited by Kimberly Orcutt ; contributions by Michael Clapper, Melissa Dabakis, Jessica Fracassini, Leslie Ransick Gat, David Jaffee, Michael Leja, Leo G. Mazow, Kirk Savage, Thayer Tolles, and Erin Toomey.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Date: 2010x.

Creators: Rogers, John, 1829-1904. Orcutt, Kimberly. Clapper, Michael Roy. Dabakis, Melissa. Fracassini, Jessica. Gat, Leslie Ransick. Jaffee, David. Leja, Michael, 1951- Mazow, Leo G. Savage, Kirk, 1958- Tolles, Thayer. Toomey, Erin. Palmer Museum of Art (Pennsylvania State University) New-York Historical Society. Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

GUSN: 359235

Call Number: Coll NB237.R65 A4 2010x

Benjamin Franklin in terra cotta :portrait medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont /Richard Margolis.

232 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Date: 2015.

Creators: Margolis, Richard.

GUSN: 359236

Call Number: Coll NB623.N56 $b A4 2015

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