Library Collection
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Early American Silver 1670-1820 Including the Darling Foundation Collection from the First Church in Salem
AuthorChristie's Auction HouseCall NumberNK1
Jacob Alricks & His Nephew Peter Alricks
AuthorPrice, Edward A.DescriptionThis small paperback pamphlet style book contains biographical and historical information about Peter Aldricks and his nephew and their role in the exploration of New Netherland in the early 17th century.Call NumberF161 .D35Publisher1968 Conference Report: Spanish, French, & English Traditions in the Colonial Silver of North America
Call NumberNK7111 .W55 1968aLaws of the State of Delaware 1853-1859
Call NumberF174Dictionary of Fashion History
AuthorCumming, Valerie, Cunnington, C.W. , Cunnington, P. E.DescriptionA Dictionary of English Costume by C. Willett Cunnington. Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard was originally published in 1960. A monumental achievement and encyclopaedic In scope, it was a comprehensive catalogue of fashion terms from the mid-medieval period up to 1900. It was reissued and updated several times, for the last time in 1976. For decades it has served as a bible for costume historians. The Dictionary of Fashion History completely updates and supplements the Cunningtons' landmark work to bring it up to the present day. Featuring additional terms and revised definitions, this new edition represents an essential reference for costume historians, students of fashion history, or anyone involved in creating period costume for the theatre, film or television.Call NumberGT507.C79 2010PublisherISBN9781847885333
The Swedes and Dutch at New Castle 1638-1664
AuthorWeslager, C. A.DescriptionThe Swedes and Dutch at New Castle 1638-1664Call NumberF174.N5 W47 1987PublisherISBN912608501Culinary Expeditions: A Celebration of Food and Culture
AuthorWomen's Committee of Penn MuseumDescriptionFeatures cultural and culinary stories, 80 tested recipes, and glorious photography of food-related artifacts from the international collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.Call NumberTX3ISBN9780615894935Delaware Discoveries Girlhood Embroidery 1750 1850
AuthorAllen, Gloria Seaman Steinhoff, Cynthia ShankCall NumberNK9112 .A44 2019PublisherISBN9780692154083Plain & Fancy : Country Quilts of the Pennsylvania Germans
AuthorSchorsch, AnitaCall NumberNK9112 .S34 1991PublisherISBN080697432XNewhailes Draft Management Plan 1996 2001
Call NumberNA4590Birch's Views of Philadelphia: A Reduced Facsimile of The City of PhiladelphiaÖas it appeared in the Year 1800 (With Photographs of the Sites in 1960 & 1982)
AuthorTeitelman, Robert S.DescriptionAn eighteenth-century record of an American city;, photographs provide a fascinating record of Philadelphia's renewed growth and vitality between 1960 and 1982.Call NumberF158.37 .C58 1982Publisher
Delaware History Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 2015-16
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 34, No.3 has one article: "A Civil War Miniature House: The McComb House as National Emblem".Call NumberF161 .D37Old Domestic Base-metal Candlesticks from the 13th Century to the 19th
AuthorMichaelis, Ronald FrederickDescriptionRecords the development of the candlestick from the 13th to the 19th century.Call NumberNK6443 .M52PublisherISBN9780902028272
Antique American Frames Identification and Price Guide
AuthorWilner, Eli with Kaufman, MervynCall NumberN8550 .K26PublisherISBN9780380770113The Workwoman's Guide Containing Instructions to the inexperienced in cutting out and completing those articles of wearing apparel &c.
AuthorBy a LadyDescriptionPublished early in a wave of nineteenth-century books providing sewing and fancywork instructions with remarkable breath of topics and depth of instructions. Originally published in 1838 in London.Call NumberTT697PublisherISBN971760543Delaware History Vol. XXXII Index
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume XXXII Index is a white pamphlet just like other indices. It contains a Table of Contents, a List of Illustrations followed by the Index.Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherArt i Facts Summer 2016
AuthorHeuer, Amy, EditorDescriptionResearching Ungilded Daguerreotype Treatment.The Fellowship Year at CCAHA.Call NumberAM101Herbs & Things Jeanne Rose's Herbal
AuthorRose, JeanneDescription1974 printingCall NumberRS164 .R67PublisherISBN9780448024578Delaware History Vol. XXVI Index 1994-95
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherMonticello A Guidebook
AuthorNichols, Frederick D. and Bear, James A., Jr.Call NumberE312.5Washington Winter Show Antiques Fine Arts The Washington Antiques Show
DescriptionThe works displayed at the Katzen Arts Center American University for the Washington Winter Show, January 12-14, 2024.Call NumberNK1125PublisherColonial Women
AuthorWalker, NikiDescriptionIntroduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial AmericaCall NumberHQ1416 .W35 2003PublisherISBN9780778707950The Beach Wildlife, Nature and the Beauty of Coastal Delaware
AuthorFleming, KevinDescriptionCaptures the beauty of Delaware's beaches along with an incredible variety of coastal wildlife and wild places. From the salt marshes, forests and wetlands along the Delaware Bay to the First State's Atlantic Ocean beaches and inland baysCall NumberF164ISBN9780982071687The 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
Delaware History Vol. XXXI No.4 2007
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 31, No. 4 has four articles: 1. "Tribute to William H. Williams"; 2. "A House is Not a Home": The Collins Bombing of 1959"; 3. "The Art and Mystery" of Delaware's Apprentice Indentures"; 4. "Bibliography of Delaware History, 2003-2005".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherThe compleat housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ...
AuthorSmith, E(liza)DescriptionFirst published in 1758Call NumberTX705 .S53x 1727PublisherThe Pennsylvania Spice Box: Paneled Doors and Secret Drawers
AuthorGriffth, Lee EllenCall NumberNK2727 .G75 1986PublisherISBN9780929706030
History of the United States Civil War to the Present
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 NumberE175.8 .D53PublisherISBN0395688647Threatened Resources Documented in Delaware, 1996 97
AuthorSiders, Rebecca; Melson, Dawn; van dan Hurk, J.Call NumberNAHistoric Houses of Kent County: An Architectural History: 1642-1860
AuthorBourne, Michael OwenDescriptionLarge volume on Kent County history. Detailed architectural survey of individual historic houses in Kent County. Chapter on the African-American community in early Kent County. Martinet maps (1860) of Kent County. K-Files inventory. Index. Many photos of historic houses.Call NumberF176Printed Textiles: British and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850
AuthorEaton, LindaDescriptionBased on the 1970 classic by Florence M. MontgomeryCall NumberNK8843.A2 E27 2014PublisherISBN9781580933933
Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 52, Number 2May 2013
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionConservation of a Rubber Terrain Model Map from World War II.Evaluation of Coating Performance on Silver Exposed to Hydrogen Sulfide. Fluorimetric Analysis of the Constituent Dyes within Daylight Fluorescent Pigments: Implications for Display and PreseCall NumberN8554 .A53aGeorge Logan of Philadelphia
AuthorTolles, Frederick B.DescriptionA Quaker idealist who attempted by private diplomacy to avert the Revolutionary War. He was an intimate friend of all the well known names of that time.Call NumberE302.6.L8 T6Publisher
Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper Basic Procedures for Paper Preservation
AuthorClapp, Anne F.DescriptionDesigned to aid the conservation technician, private and institutional, in caring for works of art on paper.Call NumberTS1109 .C55PublisherISBN9780941130318St. Paul's Methodist Church 1851 1991 Odessa, Delaware
AuthorLoven, Marjorie K.Call NumberBX8201MAPS Finding Our Place In The World
AuthorAkerman, James R.; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. - EditorsDescriptionIntroduces the widest range of maps; maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures; maps made for divergent purposes and depiting a range of environments; and maps that embody the famous, the important, the beautiful, the groundbreaking, or the amusing.Call NumberGA201 .M365PublisherISBN9780226010755
The Care and Display of Historic Clothing
AuthorDePauw, Karen M.DescriptionThis book seeks to put the collection before ego and share the knowledge gained through years of education, training, and practical work in museums, so that costume collections of all sizes can be cared for and preserved for future generations.Call NumberNK4704.5 .D47 2017PublisherISBN9781538105924E.I. du Pont, Botaniste: The Beginning of a Tradition
AuthorWilkinson, Norman B.DescriptionPublished for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley FoundationCall NumberSB63.D87 W55PublisherISBN9780813903996
