Historic New England

Column

Column fragment, perhaps a column base, with 2" wide carved flutes.

Date: 1880-1882

Maker: unknown

Material: carving (processes), fluting, sandstone

GUSN: 32

Accession Number: 1987.57

Wall fragment

Section of wall with oak lath which is up and down sawn, riven and accordianed and attached to very wide studs. There is a very fine coat of plaster covering most of the sample.

Date: 1780-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, oak (wood), plaster, splitting, sawing

GUSN: 33

Accession Number: 1964.400C

Sheathing

Fragments of wall sheathing with shadow molding and black paint as well as whitewash.

Date: 1675

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 34

Accession Number: 1964.252.2AB

Dado

Panelled dado with narrow rectangular panel over a wider rectangular panel. The panels are raised field with 1" feather edge. Grooves are quarter-round molded.

Date: ca. 1739

Maker: More, William (Cabinetmaker)

Material: molding (forming), paneling, softwood

GUSN: 35

Accession Number: 1927.847

Panelled dado with narrow rectangular panel over a wider rectangular panel. The panels have a raised field and 1" feather panel. The grooves have quarter-round molding. This panel has dado cap molding attached.

Date: ca. 1739

Maker: More, William (Cabinetmaker)

Material: molding (forming), paneling, softwood

GUSN: 36

Accession Number: 1927.848

Sliding Shutter

A shutter made from two boards held together by a batten; later covered with plaster and lath. Some hair plaster still attached.

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: hair, plaster, softwood

GUSN: 37

Accession Number: 1980.258

Shingle

Shingles with ends cut to make hexagonal pattern when put together with others; grey paint and size may indicate an attempt to imitate slate.

Date: 1846

Maker: Davis, Alexander Jackson, Mr. (Architect)

Material: painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 38

Accession Number: 1959.103A-E

Shingle

Wall shingle with 8" or so weathering face and rounded upper edge; handsplit.

Date: ca. 1718

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, pine (wood)

GUSN: 39

Accession Number: 1918.1143

Clapboard

Section of sheathing board with two bevelled edges and 4 1/2" wide clapboards; clapboaards have feathered ends and wrought nails.

Date: 1735

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, softwood

GUSN: 40

Accession Number: 1923.545.1

Shingle

No description

Date: ca. 1672

Maker: unknown

Material: softwood

GUSN: 41

Accession Number: 1928.172

Clapboard

Clapboard with nails holes on top and bottom; traces of whitewash over half of it.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

Material: pine (wood), whitewashing (coating)

GUSN: 43

Accession Number: 1966.12

Window Sash

Sash with hinge pin sockets and detached iron pull/latch. Divided into three horizontal panels.

Date: 1600-1699

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal)

GUSN: 44

Accession Number: 1925.677

Leaded Window

Ten panes of square-shaped leaded window lights with cames loops for wood transom bar.

Date: 1678

Maker: unknown

Material: lead (metal), lead glass, glass (material)

GUSN: 45

Accession Number: 1951.M24A

Shingle

Slim and much weathered roof shingles with traces of original red paint.

Date: 1844

Maker: 252 Gray Street (Maker)

Material: pine (wood)

GUSN: 46

Accession Number: 1973.183

Shingle

Shingle, hand-split and quite weathered.

Date: 1715-1740

Maker: unknown

Material: splitting, Norway spruce (wood)

GUSN: 47

Accession Number: 1928.1142

Shingle

Roof shingle.

Date: ca. 1767

Maker: unknown

Material: chestnut (wood), oak (wood)

GUSN: 48

Accession Number: 1942.1113

Shingle

Roof shingle

Date: 1795-1796

Maker: unknown

Material: cedar (wood)

GUSN: 221145

Accession Number: 1930.1165

Balustrade

B: a short newel post with handrail attached which slopes up and fits into mortise in C. C: a newel post with outline and mortises in the paint showing where two handrails attached at right angles; black paint.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 52

Accession Number: 1960.12BC

Handrail

Handrail segment; mahogany finish; grained?

Date: ca. 1870

Maker: unknown

Material: graining, softwood

GUSN: 53

Accession Number: 1959.247

Mantelshelf

No description

Date: 1794-1796

Maker: unknown

Material: molding (forming), painting (coating), softwood

GUSN: 54

Accession Number: 1926.866

Stud

Front door stud with mortise (12 1/2" from one end) and numerous hand-wrought nails in one side.

Date: ca. 1720

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood)

GUSN: 55

Accession Number: 1964.62

Joist

Floor joist, beaded along two edges and charred at one end; some evidence of dark stain.

Date: ca. 1710

Maker: unknown

Material: oak (wood), staining

GUSN: 56

Accession Number: 1969.255

Stud

A: Wall studs with nails and lathing marks on one face and sheathing and clapboarding on the other. There is a rabbet at each end and recesses on the diagonal. B: Tenons at both ends and bevelled recesses (rabbets).

Date: ca. 1700

Maker: unknown

Material: beveling, hardwood

GUSN: 57

Accession Number: 1966.454AB

Window Frame

Four pieces of wood joined by pegs; very slight decorative trim; the jambs of the interior are slightly canted; sash would have been fixed and leaded.

Date: 1724

Maker: unknown

Material: hardwood, molding (forming)

GUSN: 59

Accession Number: 1961.17

Mantelpiece

Packed in large crate, this white marble mantel consists of numerous pieces; heavily molded, segmentally arched fireplace surround, incised decoration on the spandrels, leafy capitals.

Date: ca. 1876

Maker: Bowker and Torrey (Maker)

Material: marble (rock), molding (forming), incising, carving (processes)

GUSN: 60

Accession Number: 1922.985

Newel

B: newel and handrail section, complete and unbroken; brown paint. E: newel and piece of handrail at right angles; mortise for another rail lower down; handrail is simple Federal design; newel has turnings below and is square above with simple turned circle on top; brown paint.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 61

Accession Number: 1960.6BE

Alongshore / John R. Stilgoe.

x, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

GUSN: 149214

Call Number: 85M Stacks F72.C3 S79 1994

Connecticut River master mariners : a brief record of some of the blue water shipmasters of the Connecticut River / by Thomas A. Stevens.

51 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1979.

Creators: Stevens, Thomas A.

GUSN: 149215

Call Number: Stacks F102.C7 S74 1979

Catharine Beecher : a study in American domesticity / Kathryn Kish Sklar.

xv, 356 p. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1976, c1973.

Creators: Sklar, Kathryn Kish.

GUSN: 149216

Call Number: 85M Stacks HQ1413.B4 S54 1976

The Sarsaparilla kings : a biography of Dr. James Cook Ayer and Frederick Ayer with a record of their family / by Scott C. Steward.

xii, 177 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Steward, Scott C. (Scott Campbell), 1963-

GUSN: 149217

Call Number: Stacks CS71.A98 1993

This edifice is colossal : 19th century architectural photography / Robert A. Sobieszek.

84 p. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Sobieszek, Robert A., 1943- International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

GUSN: 149218

Call Number: 85M Stacks TR659.S63 1986

Robert Adam : the creative mind : from the sketch to the finished drawing / A.A. Tait.

48 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., plans ; 29 cm.

Date: 1996]

Creators: Tait, A. A. (Alan Andrew), 1938- Sir John Soane's Museum. Frick Collection. UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.

GUSN: 149219

Call Number: Stacks NA2707.A3 T35 1996

After the Revolution : the Smithsonian history of everyday life in the eighteenth century / Barbara Clark Smith.

xxvi, 214 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: c1985.

Creators: Smith, Barbara Clark.

GUSN: 149220

Call Number: Stacks E163.S63 1985

The Children's Hospital of Boston : "Built better than they knew" / Clement A. Smith.

ix, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1983.

Creators: Smith, Clement A. (Clement Andrew), 1901-

GUSN: 149221

Call Number: Stacks RJ28.B7 S65 1983

Philadelphia on the river / Philip Chadwick Foster Smith.

175 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster. Philadelphia Maritime Museum.

GUSN: 149222

Call Number: Stacks HE554.P5 P49 1986

Source book of American architecture : 500 notable buildings from the 10th century to the present / G.E. Kidder Smith.

678 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Smith, G. E. Kidder (George Everard Kidder), 1913- Smith, G. E. Kidder (George Everard Kidder), 1913- Architecture of the United States.

GUSN: 149223

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA705.S578 1996

Meet your neighbors : New England portraits, painters, & society, 1790-1850 / essays by Jack Larkin, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and David Jaffee ; catalog of the exhibition by Jessica F. Nicoll ; Caroline F. Sloat, editor.

143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Jaffee, David. Larkin, Jack, 1943- Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, 1950- Nicoll, Jessica F. Sloat, Caroline. Old Sturbridge Village.

GUSN: 149224

Call Number: Stacks ND1311.5.M44 1992 (and 2 more)

Opulent textiles : the Schumacher Collection / by Richard E. Slavin, III.

xvii, 219 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: c1992.

Creators: Slavin, Richard E.

GUSN: 149225

Call Number: Stacks NK8998.F2 S5 1992

The political, personal, and property rights of a citizen of The United States. How to exercise and how to preserve them. Together with I. A treatise on the rules of organization and procedure in deliberative assemblies; II. A glossary of law terms in common use. By Theophilus Parsons.

xvi, 744 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1874.

Creators: Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882.

GUSN: 149226

Call Number: Stacks JK1756.P3 1874

A guide to the country home, by Edward Kneeland Parkinson ...

5 p. ¾., 3-156 p., l ¾. front., 16 pl. 20 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Parkinson, Edward Kneeland.

GUSN: 149227

Call Number: Stacks S521.P2

Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect, 1803-1892 / edited by Amelia Peck ; introduction by Jane B. Davies.

192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1992.

Creators: Peck, Amelia.

GUSN: 149228

Call Number: 85M Stacks NA737.D34 A84 1992

History of the American field service in France, °Friends of France", 1914-1917; told by its members...

3 v. fronts. [v. 2. col.] illus. [part col.] plates [part col.] ports., maps [part fold.] plans, facsims. [part col.] diagrs. 24 cm.

Date: 1920.

Creators: Seymour, James William Davenport, ed.

GUSN: 149229

Call Number: Stacks D629.F8 F7 1920 v.1 (and 2 more)

The good things of Life. [1st]-10th series.

10 v. illus. 22 x 27 cm.

Date: 1884-93.

Creators: Life (New York).

GUSN: 149230

Call Number: Stacks NC1428.L5 v.10

The forgotten aquariums of Boston / by Jerry Ryan.

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995?]

Creators: Ryan, Jerry. New England Aquarium Corporation.

GUSN: 149231

Call Number: Stacks QL79.U62 B7 1995

Guide to research collections of former United States senators, 1789-1995 : a listing of archival repositories housing the papers of former senators, related collections, and oral history interviews / compiled by Karen Dawley Paul ; Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant ; prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston.

xii, 743 p. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1995.

Creators: Paul, Karen Dawley. Boyle, Diane B.

GUSN: 149232

Call Number: Ref. CD3043.P39 1995

Brick and tile engineering / by Harry C. Plummer.

vii, 466 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1962.

Creators: Plummer, Harry C. (Harry Custer), 1897-

GUSN: 149233

Call Number: Stacks TA432.P48 1962b

The coming of industrial order : town and factory life in rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860 / Jonathan Prude.

xvii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1983.

Creators: Prude, Jonathan.

GUSN: 149234

Call Number: Stacks HC107.M4 P78 1983

The taverns and turnpikes of Blandford, 1733-1833, by Sumner Gilbert Wood ...

5 p. ¾., 329, [23] p. front., plates, ports., fold. map. 22 cm.

Date: 1908.

Creators: Wood, Sumner Gilbert, 1855-1942.

GUSN: 149235

Call Number: Stacks F74.B45 W8

At wood end : Reading, Massachusetts, 1644-1994 : a pictorial history / by Reading 350th Book Committee.

x, 342 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Reading 350th Book Committee (Reading, Mass.)

GUSN: 149236

Call Number: Stacks F74.R28 A19 1994

Bridges of Central Park / by Henry Hope Reed, Robert M. McGee, and Esther Mipaas ; drawings by Ronald Rife and Joseph LoGuirato.

95 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1990.

Creators: Reed, Henry Hope. McGee, Robert M. Mipaas, Esther.

GUSN: 149237

Call Number: Stacks TG25.C328 R44 1990

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