Library Collection
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Colonial Silver in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AuthorSafford, Frances GruberDescriptiondocuments how colonial silversmiths developed a distinctive tradition of their own, producing work that was both practical and artistically refined.Call NumberNK7112Publisher
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The Thirteen Colonies Cookbook: a collection of favourite receipts from thirteen exemplary eighteenth-century cooks with proper menus for simple fare and elegant entertainments and selected notes of historic interest, being a guide to open-hearth and bee-hive oven cookery, adapted for twentieth-century use
AuthorDonovan, Mary, Hatrak, Amy, Mills, Frances, etc.Call NumberTX715 .T39PublisherISBN9780275223007
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Wilmington, Delaware Portrait of an Industrial City, 1830-1910
AuthorHoffecker, Carol E.Call NumberHC108.W63 H63PublisherISBN0813905192
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Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Unveiling of the Tea Monument in Greenwich, NJ "The Tea Burning Town" Oct. 4, 1958
Call NumberE201The Kindig Collection of Important American furniture, Paintings, Silver & Decorative Arts
AuthorSotheby'sDescriptionone of the most distinguished assemblages of early American antiques, built over a century by the renowned Joe Kindig Jr. and his descendantsCall NumberNK1Publisher
Colonial Williamsburg, its buildings and gardens; a descriptive tour of the restored capital of the British Colony of Virginia
AuthorKocher, A. Lawrence and Dearstyne, HowardCall NumberF234.W7 K6 1961PublisherFlowers, Fruit, and Shells; Painting on Velvet, New Method of Oriental Tinting
AuthorWhittock, Nathaniel, Esq.Call NumberND1625Textile Printing
AuthorClark, HazelCall NumberNK8800Lace and Lace Making
AuthorBullock, Alice-MayDescriptionA comphensive book well researched on the history of lace and lace making. Includes all aspects of how lace is made and maintained.Call NumberTT800.B95 1981PublisherISBN0883322617
Colonial Delaware A History
AuthorMunroe, John A.Call NumberF167 .M84 2003PublisherISBN9780924117275The Delaware State House: A Preservation Report
Call NumberF174Portrait of a Colonial City - Philadelphia 1670-1838
AuthorEberlein, Harold Donaldson Hubbard,Cortland Van Dyke - EditorsCall NumberF158.7 .E185Publisher
American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints
AuthorAxelrod, Alan (editor)Call NumberN8214.5.U6 A44 1987PublisherISBN9780896596917H. Rodney Sharp 1880 1968: Biographical Notes Marking the 100th Anniversary of his Birth
AuthorRaley, Robert L.Call NumberCT3200New Sweden on the Delaware 1638-1655
AuthorWeslager, C. A.DescriptionNew Sweden on the Delaware 1638-1655Call NumberF167 .W37 1988PublisherISBN091260865XOld Bohemia 1704-1976 History of Saint Francis Xavier Church and Bohemia Plantation Now Known as Old Bohemia
AuthorCann, Joseph C. (compiled by)Call NumberBX800Safeguarding Your Collection in Travel
AuthorKeck, Caroline K.DescriptionA discription and illustration of the basic principles governing security for historic and artistic objects in motion.Call NumberN8585 .K43Kitchen & Bath Showcase:
AuthorCheever, Ellen, CKD, CBD, AISDCall NumberTX653 .K52 1995PublisherISBN9781883065034The History of the Patchwork Quilt: Origins, Traditions and Symbols of a Textile Art
AuthorVon Gwinner, SchnuppeCall NumberNK9112 .G9513 1988PublisherISBN9780887401367Patterns of Fashions 1 Englishwomen's Dresses and their construction c. 1660 1860
AuthorArnold, JanetCall NumberTT504 .A7American Spoons: Souvenir and Historical
AuthorRainwater, Dorothy & Felger, DonnaCall NumberNK7235 .R3 1990PublisherISBN9780887402661Philadelphia Furniture & Its Makers
AuthorSnyder, John Jr. EditorDescriptionArticles from the May 1924-May 1975 issues of Antiques Magazine including bibliographical references and indexCall NumberNK2438.P5 P35PublisherISBN9780876632505
One hundred and fifty years of collecting by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1824-1974
AuthorWainwright, Nicholas B.Call NumberF146 .P578PublisherISBN9780910732093
The Book and Paper Group Annual Volume Thirty-eight 2019
DescriptionPapers presented at the Book and Paper Group Annual Meeting 2019Call NumberZ700.9 .B66Chinese Export Porcelain: Standard patterns and forms, 1780 to 1880
AuthorSchiffer, Herbert, Peter and NancyCall NumberNK4565.5 .S34PublisherHistoric Virginia Gardens: Preservations by the Garden Club of Virginia
AuthorWilliams, Dorothy HuntCall NumberSB466.U65 V88PublisherISBN9780813906041
History of the United States
AuthorDiBacco, Thomas V. Mason, Lorna C. Appy, Christian G.DescriptionEmphasizes the broad themes and the richness of heritage. Integrates multi cultural perspectives and georgraphic, constitutional, religious, and economic themes.Call NumberE178.1 .D54 1995PublisherISBN039568885XAmerican Art from American Collections
AuthorBiddle, JamesDescriptionExhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 6 to April 28, 1963.Call NumberN6507 .N4Publisher
The brass book : American, English, and European, fifteenth century through 1850
AuthorSchiffer, Herbert F. Schiffer, Peter Berwind Schiffer, Nancy N.DescriptionLarge sections are devoted to andirons, candlesticks, fireplace accessories, kettles and tobacco boxes. Explains the composition of brass, eighteenth century method of sand casting, and ways to identify old copies and fakes.Call NumberNK7804 .S3 1978PublisherISBN091683817X
The Bible in Iron or The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans
AuthorMercer, Dr. Henry C.DescriptionDocuments and studies colonial-era cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. Originally published in 1914Call NumberNK8212 .M47PublisherISBN9780910302012
The Virginia House: A Home for Three Hundred Years
AuthorFaulconer, Anne M.DescriptionPresents a full survey of Tidewater Virginia homes constructed between 1640 and 1830.Call NumberNA7206 .F38 1984PublisherISBN9780887400049
Bookbinding & Conservation by Hand, A Working Guide
AuthorYoung, Laura S.DescriptionA working guide in the field of hand bookbinding and book conservation. It is intended as a practical manual for teachers and students.Call NumberZ271 .Y68 1995PublisherISBN9781884718106The Egyptian Revival Its Sources, Monuments, and Meaning 1808 1858
AuthorCarrott, Richard G.Descriptionits sources, monuments, and meaning, 1808-1858Call NumberNA710.5E48 C37PublisherISBN9780520033245The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American: The Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece
AuthorSack, AlbertDescriptionGuide for comparing and evaluating early American antiques.Call NumberNK2406 .S292 1993PublisherISBN051758820X
Jane Austen's Letters
AuthorLeFaye, Deirdre (collected and compiled by)Call NumberPR4036 .A4PublisherISBN9780199576074Governors Register Vol 1: 1674-1851
DescriptionThis book contains appointments and other transactions by executives of the State of Delaware from 1674-1851Call NumberF161PublisherAmerican Painted Furniture 1790 1880
AuthorSchaffner, Cynthia A. & Klein, SusaCall NumberNK2406 .S33PublisherISBN9780517700839The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others
AuthorStill, WilliamDescriptionA "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821-1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He created this collection of preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrowCall NumberE450 .S85PublisherLandscape Wallcoverings
AuthorWarner, Joanne Kosuda with Elizabeth jJohnson, EditorDescriptionIncludes a brief history of Landscape Painting and transitions from canvas to paper and the origins of it from 1650 - 1800. Includes illustrations throughout the book.Call NumberNK3400 .K68 2001PublisherISBN1857392395Kirk silver in United States museums
AuthorS. Kirk & SonDescriptionBegins with two pages of Kirk Assayer and Maker's Marks, followed by alphabetical list of form and within each form, the detailed object, its Kirk catalog number (where relevant), and the museum holding the object, and concludes with two pages on the U.S.S. Maryland Silver Service. 6 objects are illustrated along with two illustrations of objects in the U.S.S. Maryland Silver Service.Call NumberNK7112PublisherHistorical Needlework of Pennsylvania
AuthorSchiffer, Margaret BerwindDescriptionExamples described are samplers, which include some unusual darning and drawn-work samplers as well as the more familiar cross-stitch type; crewel embroidery, silk embroidered pictures, Florentine stitch embroidery, and the canvas and Berlin work of theCall NumberNK9110 .S35PublisherISBN9781199092113
