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Looking at Photographs: a guide to technical terms
AuthorBaldwin, Gordon & Jurgens, MartinCall NumberTR9 .B35 2009PublisherISBN9780892369713Trees and shrubs : [what to grow and how to grow it]
AuthorRushforth, KeithDescriptionIncludes more than 200 of the most popular garden trees, shrubs, palms and conifers.Call NumberSB435.5 .R87 2005PublisherISBN9780060786335Wrought with Careful Hand: Ties of Kinship on DE Samplers
AuthorAnderson, Lynne & Allen, Gloria SeamanCall NumberNK9112 .W76 2014PublisherISBN9781893287129Bayard Taylor - Brandywine Valley Artist
AuthorBerndt, DavidDescriptionA book containing the paintings of Bayard Taylor Berndt with test.Call NumberND237.B47 B47 2012PublisherISBN9780985486303
The Book and Paper Group Annual Volume 30 2011
Call NumberZ700.9 .B66Quilted Together Women, Quilts, and Communities
AuthorIce, Joyce and Norris, Linda (editors)Call NumberNK9101.D36 Q55 1989PublisherISBN9780962290305Delaware History Vol. XXV No. 1 1992
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThree articles: 1. "Like Noah's Dove: Susan Rodney and Daily Life in Rural Delaware, 1841-1852. 2; "The the Motion Picture Comes to Wilmington, Part II; Recollections of My Mother and Father and Growing up in Milford, DE, Part III".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherThe Virginia housewife, or, Methodical cook : a facsimile of an authentic early American cookbook / Mary Randolph
AuthorRandolph, MaryDescriptionMary Randolph (August 9, 1762ñJanuary 23, 1828) wrote The Virginia House-Wife (1824), the first American regional cookbook. Her recipes used Virginia produce but also showed influences from African, American Indian, and European cultures, thereby creating a cuisine unique to Virginia and the South. Randolph's influential housekeeping book was an immediate success and went through many editions until the 1860s. It included both culinary instructions and advice on household supervision. Besides popularizing the use of more than forty vegetables, Randolph's book also introduced dishes from abroad, such as gazpacho, to the southern public.Call NumberTX715 .R215 1993PublisherISBN9780486277721
Colonial Wrought Iron: The Sorber Collection
AuthorPlummer, DonAndrews, JackDescriptionPhotographic survey of early wrought iron work in America with 506 photographs from the Sorber Collection.Call NumberNK8212 .P57 1999PublisherISBN9781879535169
Wash and Gouache A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor
AuthorCohn, Marjorie B.DescriptionIllustrates some of the more important technical aspects of the materials and methods of the watercolor artistCall NumberND2430 .C63PublisherISBN9780916724061American Furniture
AuthorBeckerdite, Luke EditorDescriptionIssues: 1994, 1996, 1998-2000, 2002-2005, 2007, 2008,2012, 2013, 2017, 2018Call NumberNK2405 .A6Publisher
Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America
AuthorColonial Dames of AmericaDescriptionThe great importance and usefulness of herbs among settlers in the American colonies are made abundantly clear.Call NumberSB351.H5 S576 1995PublisherISBN9780486285290The Old Salem Toy Museum
AuthorGray, Thomas A.Call NumberNK9509.4.W56 O436 2005PublisherISBN9781879704091Early Homes of New York and the Mid Atlantic States (Architectural Treasures of Early America)
AuthorWhitehead, Russell F. Brown, (editor)Description(Architectural Treasures of Early America)Call NumberNA7235.N7 E18PublisherISBN9780405100697Great Winterthur Rooms
Call NumberNK460PublisherThe Underground Railroad in Delaware
AuthorMorgan, MichaelDescriptionThis book is an attempt to correct the oversight of the routes that freedom seekers used for escape from the bonds of slavery in Delaware that had not been documented. The book is drawn mostly from works published in the 19th century, such as the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, revised twice, William Still's Underground Railroad Records and Sarah Bradford's two books on Harriet Tubman. This book may serve as a guide to further research found from family traditions and keepsake documents.Call NumberE185 .B46PublisherISBN9781467152419King County and Its Emerald City: Seattle
AuthorWarren, James R.Call NumberF899.S457 W3698 1997PublisherISBN9780965475426Enduring Grace: Quilts from the Shelbourne Museum Collection With Instructions for 5 Heirloom Quilts
The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
AuthorPlumb, Robert C.DescriptionAn account of 5 women who changed Civil War American.Call NumberE628 .P58 2020
18th Century Clothing
AuthorKalman, BobbieCall NumberGT607 .K35 1993PublisherISBN9780865055124The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America (Creating the Norh American Landscape)
AuthorEnsminger, Robert F.DescriptionComprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn.Call NumberNA8230 .E5 1992PublisherISBN9780801843044
Delaware History Vol. XXXII No. 1 2007
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 32, No. 1 contains three articles: 1. "A Fresh Look at Old New Castle's Architectural Heritage"; 2. "Buy It at the Galon!" A History of Lewes Diary"; 3."Another Look at Frank Zebley's Churches of Delaware Part 3 Kent County".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 57, Number 4November 2018
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionThe dating of French gilt bronzes with ED-XRFHistorical tintype plates: anaylsis of supports, japanning layers, and verso varnishesSublimable layers for protection of painted pottery during desalinationBlack and blue printing ink analysis by XRF, DRIFCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherThe Underground Railroad for Kids From Slavery to Freedom
AuthorCarson, Mary KayDescriptionA narrow escape and a secret network -- Passengers : fleeing a life of bondage -- Print adinkra cloth -- Homemade hoecakes -- Story-telling griots -- Rubber band banjo -- Ticket agents and railroad operators : fighting for abolition and aiding runaways -- Silver Seminole gorgets -- Create an antislavery handbill -- Write and decode underground railroad messages -- Singing to freedom -- Conductors : transporting illegal cargo -- Candle in a cup -- Pack up and go -- Visit an underground railroad station -- Navigate by the North Star ó Follow the drinking gourd -- Stationmasters : hiding passengers from slave catchers -- Get lost in disguise -- Design a hiding place -- Shake on it -- Make a paper quilt block -- Light a antern -- Brakemen : making a life in freedom -- Canada today -- End of the line : war, emancipation, and equality -- War in your state -- Wartime wrappings -- CelebrateCall NumberE450 .C45PublisherISBN1556525540Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware 1700 1900
AuthorHerman, Bernard H.Call NumberNA730.D32 N474PublisherISBN9780870495199Sharp and Allied Families
AuthorGeorge Valentine Massey IICall NumberCT3200The Cadwalader Family: Art and Style in Early Philadelphia
AuthorLindsey, Jack L.Sewell, DarrellDescriptionCatalogue of an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture, portraits, clothing, and objets d'art commissioned and owned by the Cadwalader family of Philadelphia.Call NumberN5198Publisher
The Story of Leather: A Trip through a Modern Leather Plant
Call NumberTS965The Servants Directory, Improved or Housekeepers Companion 4th ed
AuthorGlasse, HannahDescriptionWherein the duties of the Chamber-maid, Nursery-maid, House-maid, Laundry-maid, Scullion or Undercook, are fully and distinctly explained. To which is added, Cookery and Pickling sufficient to qualify a person to act as THOROUGH SERVANT in any family.Call NumberTX301ISBN9781140728627The Future of our Past Planning for Historic Preservation in Delaware
Call NumberF165 .D37Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700 1850
AuthorSwan, Susan BarrowsCall NumberTT715 .S9PublisherISBN003015121XTo Strengthen, to Comfort, and to Heal : Receipt Book for John H. Mundall (Philadelphia, C. 1797)
AuthorDillon, Clarissa F. EditorDescriptionOriginally published c1797 in Philadelphia. Includes a glossary of medical terms and treatments. Contains references to Philadelphia Quakers.Call NumberBX7601PublisherHome Crafts
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDescribes crafts made by early settlers, including quilts, candles, clothing, soap, and leather goodsCall NumberTT160 .K26 1993PublisherISBN9780865054851Games from long ago
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionLooks at the many different games children played in the nineteenth century, and describes the rules and play in detailCall NumberGV1200 .K35 1995PublisherISBN9780865055216Read & Respond Colonial American Literature
AuthorBrown, KarenDescriptionIf you Lived in Colonial Times Oh, What a Thanksgiving! The Matchlock Gun A Lion to Guard Us Who's That Steppin on Plymouth Rock? Samuel Eaton's DayCall NumberPZ1PublisherISBN9781564720283Damage and Deterioration of Art on Paper due to Ignorance and the Use of Faulty Materials
AuthorWeidner, Marilyn KempDescriptionStudies in ConservationCall NumberN8560PublisherGlass
AuthorGardener, Paul VickersDescriptionThe Smithsonian Illustrated Library of AntiquesCall NumberNK5104 .G33PublisherDelaware History Vol. XXXV, No. 1 2018-2019
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 35, No.1 has two articles: 1. "John Tillman of Delaware and Pennsylvania: Fredom Seeker, Agricultural Laborer, Soldier in the U.S. Colored Troop and Family Man"; 2. "Delaware in the Atlantic World: Victor Marie DuPont de Nemours and the HaitiCall NumberF161 .D37Letters of Benjamin Rush Volume II: 1793 1813
AuthorRush, Benjamin Butterfield, L. H. (editor)Call NumberR154.R9 A4
