Historic New England

Massachusetts towns: an 1840 view. [Illustrated with wood engravings of fifty-eight Massachusetts towns, drawn in 1840 by J.W. Barber. Special foreword by Mrs. Endicott Peabody.

116 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1963]

Creators: Sandrof, Ivan.

GUSN: 148191

Call Number: Stacks F64.S34

More Massachusetts towns. Illustrated with wood engravings of fifty-three Massachusetts towns, drawn in 1840 by J.W. Barber, commentary by Ivan Sandrof, and a special foreword by Mrs. Endicott Peabody.

102 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: 1965]

Creators: Sandrof, Ivan. Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, illus.

GUSN: 148192

Call Number: Stacks F64.S35

A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War. By William Schouler.

2 v. front. (port.), fold. map. 24 cm.

Date: 1868-71.

Creators: Schouler, William, 1814-1872.

GUSN: 148193

Call Number: Stacks E513.S37 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Cyclopaedia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining and engineering : in three volumes, illustrated by 63 steel engravings and 3063 wood engravings / edited by Charles Tomlinson ...

3 v., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Tomlinson, Charles, 1808-1897.

GUSN: 148194

Call Number: Stacks T9.T66 1854 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry; manufacturing and the technical arts in plates, selected from L'Encyclopâedie; ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des mâetiers, of Denis Diderot. Edited with introd. and notes by Charles Coulston Gillispie.

2 v. (chiefly illus.) 32 cm.

Date: [1959]

Creators: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Gillispie, Charles Coulston, ed.

GUSN: 148195

Call Number: Stacks T9.E473 v.1 (and 1 more)

The Pilgrims and their history. By Roland G. Usher ...

x p., 3 ¾., 310 p. front., pl., ports., maps, facsim. 20 cm.

Date: 1918.

Creators: Usher, Roland Greene, 1880-

GUSN: 148196

Call Number: Stacks F68.U86

Massachusetts; a guide to its places and people, written and compiled by the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of Massachusetts.

xxxvi, 675 p. plates, maps (1 fold., in pocket) 21 cm.

Date: 1937.

Creators: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts.

GUSN: 148197

Call Number: Stacks F70.F295

A history of inventions, discoveries, and origins. By John Beckmann ... Tr. from the German, by William Johnston.

2 v. 2 port. (incl. front.) 19 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Beckmann, Johann, 1739-1811. Johnston, William. tr. Francis, William, 1817-1904. ed. Griffith, J. W. (John William) joint ed.

GUSN: 148198

Call Number: Stacks T15.B39 v.1 (and 1 more)

Needlework in America : history, designs, and techniques / Virginia Churchill Bath.

336 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: c1979.

Creators: Bath, Virginia Churchill.

GUSN: 148199

Call Number: Coll. TT751.B3 1979

The Massachusetts state record, New England register, and year book of general information. (Annual)

1 v. ; 20 cm.

Date: 1851.

Creators: Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886, ed.

GUSN: 148200

Call Number: Stacks JK3130.M31 1851

Abstract of the census of Massachusetts, 1860 : from the eighth U.S. census, with remarks on the same / prepared ... by Geo. Wingate Chase.

373 p. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1863.

Creators: Chase, George Wingate. Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State.

GUSN: 148201

Call Number: Stacks HA432 1855.A5

Appletons' cyclopµdia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts Ed. by Park Benjamin.

2 v. fronts., illus., plates, diagrs. 26 cm.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922, ed. Appleton, firm, publishers, New York.

GUSN: 148202

Call Number: Stacks T9.A658 v.1 (and 1 more)

The Weaving book of Peace and Patience : based on the drafts in the permanent collection of Old Sturbridge Village / [edited] by Isadora Safner and Diane Piette.

6, [72] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Safner, Isadora. Piette, Diane. Old Sturbridge Village.

GUSN: 148203

Call Number: Coll. TT848.W368

The journals of each Provincial congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of safety, with an appendix, containing the proceedings of the county conventions-narratives of the events of the nineteenth of April, 1775-papers relating to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and other documents, illustrative of the early history of the American revolution. Pub. agreeably to a resolve passed March 10, 1837, under the supervision of William Lincoln.

778 p. 25 cm.

Date: 1838.

Creators: Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.

GUSN: 148204

Call Number: Stacks JK83.M4 A3

A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860... comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census. By J. Leander Bishop. With an appendix, containing statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time.

3 v. fronts., ports. 24 cm.

Date: 1868.

Creators: Bishop, J. Leander (John Leander), 1820-1868. Freedley, Edwin T. (Edwin Troxell), 1827-1904, joint author. Young, Edward, 1814-1909, joint author.

GUSN: 148205

Call Number: Stacks TS23.B72 v.1 (and 2 more)

Needlepoint in America.

160 p. illus., 6 col. plates. 27 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Hanley, Hope.

GUSN: 148206

Call Number: Coll. TT771.H212

Annual statistics of manufactures.

v. tables.

Creators: Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor.

GUSN: 148207

Call Number: Stacks HC107.M4 A4 1888 (and 1 more)

Pictures from prison life. An historical sketch of the Massachusetts state prison. With narratives and incidents, and suggestions on discipline. By Gideon Haynes.

290 p. incl. front. pl. 18 cm.

Date: 1869.

Creators: Haynes, Gideon.

GUSN: 148208

Call Number: Stacks HV9475.M42 H4

The commerce of America with Europe : particularly with France and Great Britain, comparatively stated and explained : shewing the importance of the American revolution to the interests of France, and pointing out the actual situation of the United States of North-America in regard to trade, manufactures and population / by J.P. Brissot de Warville and Etienne Claviere.

xxxv, [1], 228 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 18 cm.

Date: 1795.

Creators: Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793. Claviáere, âEtienne, 1735-1793.

GUSN: 148209

Call Number: Stacks HF3098.B85

Catalogue of English domestic embroidery of the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, by John L. Nevinson.

xxviii, 107, [1] p. col. front., lxxii pl. on 36 ¾. 25 x 19 cm.

Date: 1938.

Creators: Nevinson, J. L. (John Lea) Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Textiles.

GUSN: 148210

Call Number: Coll. NK9243.V53

The Massachusetts register and United States calendar for the year of our Lord ... (Annual)

46 v. : ill. ; 15-16 cm.

GUSN: 148211

Call Number: Stacks JK3130.M3 1802 (and 15 more)

Trade, manufacture, and commerce in the United States of America. (Erwebszweige, Fabrikwesen und Handel der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika) Verlag von Franz Kèohler, Stuttgart, 1852. Translated from German [by E. Vilim]ï

vi, 317 p. 24 cm.

Date: 1970.

Creators: Fleischmann, Carl Ludwig.

GUSN: 148212

Call Number: Stacks TS23.F62 1970 (and 1 more)

The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation from the household to the manufactory / by R. Moore.

1016 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Moore, R. (Richard), fl. 1871-1907.

GUSN: 148213

Call Number: Stacks T49.M82

Fires: their causes, prevention and extinction, combining also a guide to agents respecting insurance against loss by fire. And containing information as to the construction of buildings ... by F. C. Moore.

3 p.l., [3]-290, vii p. incl. tables. fold. plan. 18 cm.

Date: 1885 [c1876]

Creators: Moore, Francis C. (Francis Cruger), b. 1842.

GUSN: 148214

Call Number: Stacks HG9709.M6 1885

A guide to the industrial archeology of Boston proper / Peter Stott.

66 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Stott, Peter. Society for Industrial Archeology. Conference (13th : 1984 : Boston, Mass.)

GUSN: 148215

Call Number: 85M Ref. T22.5.B67 S76 1984

The Maine register and national calendar for the year ...

v. ; 17 cm.

Date: 1841-

GUSN: 148216

Call Number: Stacks JK2830.M3 1841 c.1 (and 1 more)

The old country store.

xvi, 330 p. illus. 22 cm.

Date: 1954.

Creators: Carson, Gerald.

GUSN: 148217

Call Number: Stacks HF5429.C296

American enterprise : nineteenth-century patent models.

143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1984.

Creators: Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

GUSN: 148218

Call Number: 85M Stacks T223.U3 A44 1984

The Yankee peddlers of early America / by J.R. Dolan.

270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: c1964.

Creators: Dolan, J. R.

GUSN: 148219

Call Number: Stacks HF5459.U6 D6 1964

Jacobean embroidery, its forms and fillings including late Tudor, by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A.F. Morris Hands.

xx, 56, [2] p. illus. (part. col.) 23 cm.

Date: 1935.

Creators: Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth. Hands, A. F. Morris.

GUSN: 148220

Call Number: Coll. NK9243.F5 1935

The Philosophy of manufactures : early debates over industrialization in the United States / edited by Michael Brewster Folsom and Steven D. Lubar.

xxxix, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Date: c1982.

Creators: Folsom, Michael. Lubar, Steven D.

GUSN: 148221

Call Number: Stacks HC105.P55 1982

The great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of the origin, growth, and perfection of the chief industrial arts of this country: by Horace Greeley, Leon Case [and others]

[xxiv], [25]-1304 p. incl. illus., plates. 23 cm.

Date: 1874.

Creators: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.

GUSN: 148222

Call Number: Stacks HC103.G78 1874

The Great industries of the United States : being an historical summary of the origin, growth, and perfection of the chief industrial arts of this country / by Horace Greeley, Leon Case [and others] ; with over 500 illustrations.

[xx] [25]-1304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1872 [c1872]

Creators: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.

GUSN: 148223

Call Number: Stacks HC103.G78

New England samplers to 1840 / by Glee Krueger.

xv, 227 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Date: c1978.

Creators: Krueger, Glee F.

GUSN: 148224

Call Number: Coll. NK9112.K79 (and 1 more)

Technology in early America: needs and opportunities for study. With a directory of artifact collections, by Lucius F. Ellsworth.

xix, 145 p. 24 cm.

Date: [1966]

Creators: Hindle, Brooke. Ellsworth, Lucius F. Directory of artifact collections. Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

GUSN: 148225

Call Number: 85M Ref. T21.H5 1966 (and 1 more)

The practical book of tapestries, by George Leland Hunter ... with 8 illustrations in colour and 220 in double-tone.

3 p. l., v-xviii, 302 p. col. front., plates (part col.) 23 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1928.

GUSN: 148226

Call Number: Coll. NK2995.H7

Over the counter and on the shelf; country storekeeping in America, 1620-1920. Edited by Marcia Ray.

140 p. illus. 29 cm.

Date: [1961]

Creators: Johnson, Laurence Ayres, 1889- Ray, Marcia, ed.

GUSN: 148227

Call Number: Stacks HF5429.J54

Georg Scheutz and the first printing calculator / Uta C. Merzbach.

iii, 74 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1977.

Creators: Merzbach, Uta C., 1933-

GUSN: 148228

Call Number: Stacks QA75.M46

American basketry and woodenware, a collector's guide [by] William C. Ketchum, Jr.

ix, 228 p. illus. 21 cm.

Date: [1974]

Creators: Ketchum, William C., 1931-

GUSN: 148229

Call Number: Coll. TS913.K47

New England Merchantile Union business directory for, 1849; containing ... an almanac for 1849, ... a business directory for New England; name, location ... of manufacturing establishments, professional men ... advertising register ... of New York.

324, 9 p. maps 26 cm.

Date: 1849.

GUSN: 148230

Call Number: Stacks F1.N49 1849

Puritan village; the formation of a new England town.

xx, 215 p. plates, maps, tables. 29 cm.

Date: [1963]

Creators: Powell, Sumner Chilton, 1924-

GUSN: 148231

Call Number: Stacks F74.S94 P74

Hawkers & walkers in early America : strolling peddlers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, players, and others : from the beginning to the Civil War / by Richardson Wright.

317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1927.

Creators: Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961.

GUSN: 148232

Call Number: Stacks HF5459.U6 W74

The old bay paths, their villages and byways and their stories, by George Francis Marlowe, illustrated with photographs by Samuel Chamberlain.

126 p. incl. plates. 21 cm.

Date: 1942.

Creators: Marlowe, George Francis. Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-

GUSN: 148233

Call Number: Stacks F64.M3

The Andrus bindery, a history of the shop, 1831-1839.

45p. illus. 24cm.

Date: 1940.

Creators: Brainard, Newton Case, 1880- ed.

GUSN: 148234

Call Number: Stacks Z269.A6 B7

Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865 / prepared under the authority of the State by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, State Military and Naval Historian.

2 v. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1895-1896.

Creators: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905. Wilson, Charles Webster. Jacques, Florence Wyman.

GUSN: 148235

Call Number: Stacks E513.3.H63 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Fans over the ages : a collector's guide / Bertha de Vere Green.

174 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 29 cm.

Date: 1979, c1975.

Creators: De Vere Green, Bertha.

GUSN: 148236

Call Number: Coll. NK4870.D48 1979

The historie booke, done to keep in lasting remembrance the joyous meeting of the Honourable artillery company of London and the Ancient and honorable artillery company of the Massachusetts in the towne of Boston, A.D., 1903; ed. by Justin H. Smith...

lvi p., 1 ¾., 176 p. incl. front., illus., col. plates, ports., facsims. 32x25 cm.

Date: [c1903]

Creators: Smith, Justin Henry, 1857-1930, ed.

GUSN: 148237

Call Number: Stacks UA258.A5 S6

Steam, its generation and use : with catalogue of the manufactures of The Babcock & Wilcox Co., ... New York, and Babcock & Wilcox, limited ... London.

172 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Babcock & Wilcox Company.

GUSN: 148238

Call Number: Stacks TJ315.B12 A3 1893

Treasures of Massachusetts; special section for the Boston globe's 100th anniversary. [Text: Robert Taylor. Photography: J. Edward Fitzgerald, and others]

63 p. illus. (part col.) 32 cm.

Date: 1972]

GUSN: 148239

Call Number: Stacks N6530.M4 T73

Hypocrisie unmasked; a true relation of the proceedings of the governor and company of the Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton of Rhode Island, by Edward Winslow, governor of Plymouth colony. Reprinted from the original edition issued at London in 1646; with an introduction by Howard Millar Chapin.

xiv, [12], 103 p. 23 cm.

Date: 1916.

Creators: Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655. Chapin, Howard M., 1887-1940.

GUSN: 148240

Call Number: Stacks F82.W852

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