Historic New England

The paintings of Moholy-Nagy :the shape of things to come /Joyce Tsai ; with contributions by Larry J. Feinberg, Eik Kahng, James Merle Thomas, and Friederike Waentig.

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted thro...

Creators: Feinberg, Larry J., contributor. Kahng, Eik, 1963- contributor. Thomas, James M. (James Merle), contributor. Waentig, Friederike, contributor. Tsai, Joyce, 1977- Shape of things to come. Santa Barbara Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359237

Call Number: Coll ND522.5.M59 $b A4 2015

Heywood-Wakefield modern furniture :identification and value guide /Steve Rouland & Roger Rouland.

352 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Date: 1995.

Creators: Rouland, Steven. Rouland, Roger W.

GUSN: 359238

Call Number: Coll NK2439.H45 A4 1995 c.1 (and 1 more)

Moholy-Nagy :future present /edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Carol S. Eliel, and Karole P.B. Vail ; With contributions by Julie Barten, Sylvie Pénichon, and Carol Stringari, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Carol S. Eliel, Jennifer King, Olivier Lugon, Elizabeth Siegel, Karole P.B. Vail, and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

322 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm, "The pioneering artist László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) worked across a range of art forms including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, film, advertising, and theater. This publication, which offers a fresh and extensive examination of ...

Creators: Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- editor. Eliel, Carol S., 1955- editor. Vail, Karole P. B., editor. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

GUSN: 359239

Call Number: Coll N6822.5.M63 $b A4 2016

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

Loud, naked & in three colors :the Liberty boys & the history of tattooing in Boston /Derin Bray, Margaret Hodges.

160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm,

Creators: Bray, Derin, author. Hodges, Margaret, author.

GUSN: 359999

Call Number: Stacks GT5960.T362 B67 2020

The Library of Congress :the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building /edited by John Y. Cole and Henry Hope Reed ; with essays by John Y. Cole [and others] ; preface by Arthur Ross ; foreword by James H. Billington ; introductions by Daniel Boorstin and Brendan Gill ; principal photography by Anne Day.

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm, Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (now known as the Jefferson Building) reached its 100th anniversary in 1997 after an eighty million dollar restoration that returned it to its origi...

Creators: Cole, John Young, 1940- editor. Reed, Henry Hope, editor. Small, Herbert. Library of Congress, its architecture and decoration.

GUSN: 360000

Call Number: Stacks Z733.U6 L55 1997

The architects' and builders' hand-book.

pages cm

Date: 1921.

Creators: Kidder, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1859-1905. Nolan, Thomas, 1857-1926.

GUSN: 360012

Call Number: Rare TH151 K5 1921

Floating west :antique Japanese tattoo flash from the collection of Nick York /by Nick York.

pages : illustrations, photographs ; cm

Creators: York, Nick, author.

GUSN: 360013

Call Number: Stacks GT2346.J3 Y67 2021

Walter Gropius :an illustrated biography /Leyla Daybelge, Magnus Englund.

319 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 31 cm

Creators: Daybelge, Leyla, author. Englund, Magnus, author. Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Works.

GUSN: 360014

Call Number: Stacks NA1088.G85 E54 2022 c.1 (and 1 more)

Planning your home wisely! /by Royal Barry Wills.

95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Date: Ã1946.

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360015

Call Number: Stacks NA7205.W54 1946

Lost examples of colonial architecture :buildings that have disappeared or been so altered as to be denatured /by John Mead Howells ; with an introduction by Fiske Kimball.

260 pages, 244 pages of plates : illustrations 28 cm

Creators: Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959, author.

GUSN: 360016

Call Number: Stacks NA707.H75 1963

The life and letters of George Bancroft,by M.A. De Wolfe Howe ...

2 volumes 6 portraits (including frontispieces) 22 cm, George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he...

Date: 1908.

Creators: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. Strippel, Henry C.

GUSN: 360017

Call Number: Stacks E340.B2 H8 v.1 (and 1 more)

Candle days;the story of early American arts and implements,by Marion Nicholl Rawson.

xvi, 307 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm

Date: [Ã1927]

Creators: Rawson, Marion Nicholl, 1878-1956.

GUSN: 360727

Call Number: E161.R26

The Spalding memorial :a genealogical history of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay and his descendants ; with a record of their military service in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars ; together with information concerning various other branches of the Spalding family /by Charles Warren Spalding.

xvi, 1308 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Date: 1996.

Creators: Spalding, Charles Warren, 1843-

GUSN: 360728

Call Number: CS71.S739 1996

Little gardens for boys and girls,by Myrta Margaret Higgins.

vii, 152 pages illustrations, plates 20 cm

Date: 1910.

Creators: Higgins, Myrta Margaret.

GUSN: 360729

Call Number: SB457.H6 1910

Lost Springfield, Massachusetts /Derek Strahan.

158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, "At the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Armory opened in Springfield, spurring rapid growth. With that golden age of progress came iconic buildings and landmarks that are now lost to time. Railroads brought workers eager to fill Springfield's factories and ...

Creators: Strahan, Derek, author.

GUSN: 360730

Call Number: F74.S8 S95 2017

A memorial of the life and benefactions of Mary Hemenway, 1820-1894.

[10], 74 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Date: 1927.

Creators: Tileston, Mary Wilder, 1843-1934.

GUSN: 360731

Call Number: CT240.H48 M5 1927

Countering illicit traffic in cultural goods :the global challenge of protecting the world's heritage /edited by France Desmarais.

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Creators: Desmarais, France, 1956- International Council of Museums.

GUSN: 360732

Call Number: CC135.C68 2015

Building Stata :the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT /Nancy E. Joyce ; commentary by Frank O. Gehry ; photographs by Richard M. Sobol.

xxi, 137 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 x 28 cm, "This illustrated book chronicles the entire planning and construction process of the Frank Gehry-designed Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT. Taking us from the historical background and architectural context at MIT through the in...

Date: Ã2004.

Creators: Joyce, Nancy (Nancy Eleanor) Gehry, Frank O., 1929-

GUSN: 360733

Call Number: T171.M8195 J69 2004

Rough point :the Newport home of Doris Duke /written by A. Bruce MacLeish and Pieter N. Roos.

52 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Date: Ã2003.

Creators: MacLeish, A. Bruce. Helms, Cheryl, donor. Roos, Pieter N.

GUSN: 360734

Call Number: F89.N5 M33 2003

Bibliotheca Salmo salar :a selection of rare books, manuscripts, journals, diaries, photograph albums, & ephemera on the subject of Atlantic salmon fishing /from the collection of Charles B. Wood III.

242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Creators: Wood, Charles B., III, 1936- author. Parrot, Gray, binder. Hoelfer, Jonathan, type designer. Kelly, Jerry, 1955- book designer. Godine, David R., donor. Pimlico,

GUSN: 360735

Call Number: Stacks SH685.W66 2017

Houses for good living,by Royal Barry Wills.

104 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) 32 cm

Date: [Ã1940]

Creators: Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962.

GUSN: 360736

Call Number: NA7120.W65 1940

Architecture of the Old South.Georgia /Mills Lane ; special photography by Van Jones Martin ; drawings by Gene Carpenter.

252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Date: Ã1986.

Creators: Lane, Mills. Martin, Van Jones. Carpenter, Gene.

GUSN: 360737

Call Number: NA730.G4 L36 1986

Art and work :as shown in the several artistic industries employed in the use of marble, stone, and terra-cotta, metal, wood, and textile fabrics : as well as in the various details associated with decorative art : the whole exemplified by 85 lithographic drawings (each with some descriptive explanation, of antique, Mediµval, Italian, Renaissance and Oriental examples) including some illustrations from the best unpublished works of the "Brothers Adam," together with other designs from more recent authorities /by Owen W. Davis.

36 pages, 85 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

Date: 1885.

Creators: Davis, Owen W.

GUSN: 360738

Call Number: NK1175.D3

The last whole earth catalog :access to tools /[edited by Stewart Brand]

447 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm

Creators: Brand, Stewart, editor. Portola Institute,

GUSN: 360739

Call Number: TS199.L37 1971

Early Chinese jades in the Harvard Art Museums /Jenny F. So.

359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Creators: So, Jenny F., author. Harvard Art Museums,

GUSN: 360740

Call Number: NK5750.2.C6 H375 2018

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