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The Magazine Antiques Index 1952-1971
DescriptionBound copies of Indices 1952-1971
Call NumberNK1125 .A3Publisher
The Oulde King's Roade : including the towns of Richardson Park, Elsmere, Newport, Stanton, Marshallton, Kiamensi, Ogletown, Iron Hill, Cooch's Bridge, Christiana & Glasgow
AuthorSawin, Nancy C.DescriptionA oversized softcover book that includes towns of Elsmere, Newport, Stanton, etc. as well as pictorial works buildings as well as local history.Call NumberF165 .S29 1989PublisherPast Into Present: Effective Techniques for First Person Historical Interpretation
AuthorRoth, Stacy F.DescriptionEffective Techniques for first-person historical interpretationCall NumberD16.25 .R68 1998PublisherISBN9780807824078Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans
AuthorSwank, Scott T.DescriptionShows paintings, earthenware, glassware, metalwork, textiles, and calligraphy produced by the Pennsylvania DutchCall NumberN6530.P4 S8 1983PublisherISBN9780393017496
The Care and Repair of Antiques
AuthorRH Value PublishingDescriptionInformation necessary to repair wooden and upholstered furniture, china and ceramics, rugs and carpets, and antique metalwareCall NumberNK2400PublisherISBN051700190X
Reader's Digest Pocket Guide to American Antiques
AuthorEditors of American HeritageDescriptionThis booklet is designed to provide a quick and easy introduction to the most popular styles of American antique furnishings and decorative objects, and also includes explanatory notes on their evolution.Call NumberNK28PublisherOld Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1838 1914
AuthorLooney, Robert F.Call NumberF158.37 .P55 1976PublisherISBN9780486233451A Calendar of Ridgely Family Letters 1742 1899 Vol. I, Vol. III
AuthorDelaware. Public Archives CommissionCall NumberCD3159.5.R5 A5How Prints Look Photographs with a Commentary
AuthorIvins, William M. Jr.DescriptionAn elementary introduction to the appearance (outward and visible signs) of prints.Call NumberNE863 .I9PublisherAmerican Furniture
AuthorBeckerdite, Luke EditorDescriptionIssues: 1994, 1996, 1998-2000, 2002-2005, 2007, 2008,2012, 2013, 2017, 2018Call NumberNK2405 .A6Publisher
Art Across Time : Volume II: The Fourteenth Century to the Present 2nd edition
AuthorAdams, Laurie SchneiderDescription2nd ed.Call NumberN5300 .A3PublisherISBN9780072450064Ludwig Bemelmans
AuthorEastman, Jackie FisherCall NumberPS3503.E475 Z65PublisherISBN9780805745351The Cabinet Makers of America
AuthorBjerkoe, Ethel HallDescriptionLists 2500 American cabinetmakers from colonial times through the Industrial Revolution era with biographies, dates, and locations.†Call NumberNK2500Publisher
New Castle On The Delaware
AuthorNew Castle Historical Society Foreward by Edward W. Cooch, Jr., President of the New Castle Historical Society.DescriptionThe third edition of this book, New Castle on the Delaware was published on the eve of the Bicenntennial of American Independnce. It has information about the distinguished citizens of the town who played roles in the signing of the Declaration of Independence: George Read and Thomas McKean. It also includes many other historical facts of the town that have been updated from the 1st two editions.Call NumberF174.N5 F42Publisher
Silversmiths of Delaware, 1700-1850
AuthorHistorical Society of Delaware, Ruthanna HindesCall NumberNK7112 .H26Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles & Terms, 1600 1945
AuthorBlumenson, John J. GDescriptionA Pictorial Guide to Styles & Terms, 1600 1945Call NumberNA705 .B55†PublisherISBN9780761991434Colonial Furniture of West New Jersey
AuthorHopkins, Thomas SmithCox, Walter ScottCall NumberNK2435.N5 H6Publisher
Cooking with Stone Ground Flour
AuthorKovash, Arlene Gillette, Mrs. F. L. Anderson, MarcieCall NumberTX809.W45 K68PublisherISBN0960539417
Portraits in Delaware 1700-1850: A Check List
AuthorNational Society of the Colonial Dames of AmericaCall NumberN7593 .N25
America's Arts and Skills by editors of Life Magazine
Call NumberNK805 .L44PublisherEarly Stores & Markets
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDescribes how trading posts, general stores, and family businesses were run, explains the role of the storekeeper in the community, and looks at what goods were soldCall NumberHF5429.6.N6 K35 1992PublisherISBN9780865050020The Gourmet Cookbook Volume 1 (Revised)
Call NumberTX633 .G72Colonial Burlington Cookery: a book of Receipts April 1770
AuthorHueskin, Sue Burling, Polly Ingraham, MercyDescriptionThe thirteen recipes in this book of colonial New Jersey "receipts" predate the first published American cookbook by twenty-five years. The recipes are presented with an historical backdrop of life and times in colonial Burlington.Call NumberTX715PublisherISBN0780964837836Frank Lloyd Wright A Visual Encyclopedia
AuthorThompson, LainDescriptionComprehensive guide to the life and times of the man widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern architecture.Call NumberNA737.W7 T53 2000PublisherISBN9781855858633
Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania
AuthorRaymond, EleanorDescriptionOne of the first systematic inventories of vernacular American architecture and defined Raymond's long and successful career.Call NumberNA7235.P4 R3 1977PublisherISBN9780916838119
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 1961PublisherSilk Art Embroidery: A Women's History of Ornament & Empowerment
AuthorCardwell, DonnaCall NumberNK9204 .C37 2008PublisherISBN9780764329067Delaware History Vol. XXXI No.3 2006
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 31, No. 3 has three articles: 1. "Tribute to John A. Munroe"; 2. Persecuted but not forsaken; cut down but not destroyed"; Solomon and Thamar Bayley, Delawarean Emigrants to Liberia"; 3. "Rockwood: Joseph Shipley's English Estate in Brandywine HCall NumberF161 .D37Publisher
