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The Printed Picture
AuthorBenson, RichardDescriptionRelief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photographyCall NumberN5300 .B54 2008PublisherISBN9780870707216Artists in Wilmington 1890 1940
DescriptionDelaware Art Museum exhibit Feb 3 to Apr 20 1980Call NumberN6535.W52 A77PublisherCarlyle's House The National Trust publication
DescriptionPreserved since 1895, this writerís house in the heart of one of Londonís most famous creative quarters tells the story of Thomas and Jane Carlyle.Call NumberNA2400PublisherEarly American Dress: The Colonial and Revolutionary Period
AuthorWarwick, Edward Pitz, Henry C. Wyckoff, AlexanderCall NumberGT605 .H64Publisher
Quilted Together Women, Quilts & Communities
AuthorIce, JoyceNorrid, Linda EditorsDescriptionExhibit catalogCall NumberNK9101.D36 Q55 1989PublisherISBN9780962290305The Illustrated Dictionary of Lace
AuthorGynne, Judyith L.DescriptionA dictionary with information about lace in dictionary format. Contains illustrations.Call NumberTT800.G974 1997PublisherISBN0713478217
American Cookery: or The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry & Vegetables, etc. First edition
AuthorSimmons, AmeliaDescription1st edCall NumberTX703 .S5PublisherISBN155709439XSeeking the Historical Cook Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways
AuthorMoss, Kay K. Gillette, Mrs. F. L.DescriptionServes up authentic recipes combined withyears of in-depth research into period cooking methodology, seasoning it with sizable helpings of her infectious enthusiasm.Call NumberTX715.2.S68 M678 2013PublisherISBN9781611172591
The 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 NumberTT697PublisherISBN971760543Old Farms An Illustrated Guide
DescriptionExplores the relics of old farms from the farmhouse through the fields.Call NumberS760.G7 V566 1983PublisherISBN9780805207293
Potters and Firebrick Makers of Cecil County, Maryland and Nearby 1750-1950
AuthorKoterski, James R.DescriptionEarly potters and firebrick makers of Cecil Co., Md., fashioned and fired wheel-turned redware and stoneware, examples of which survive today and are illustrated in color. This book details the successes and failures of those who practiced these trades by integrating land and court records, newspaper reports, business documents, and family histories.Call NumberTP785PublisherISBN97816012745The Crafts of Williamsburg
AuthorWalmsley, James S.Call NumberTT24.V8 W35PublisherISBN9780879350642Henry Francis du Pont 1880 1969
AuthorSweeney, John A. H.Call NumberCT3200American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection Vol 3
AuthorHennage, Joseph H.DescriptionBrochure 18, 1970 to brochure 21, 1972Call NumberNK805 .A64Publisher
Revolutionary Medicine 1700-1800
AuthorWilbur, C. Keith MDDescriptionIn 1775 less than 12 percent of the colonies' practicing physicians held a medical degree. And those few awarded one had graduated without ever seeing a patient. Here are their struggles, their strategies, their odd treatments, and their theories.Call NumberE283 .W54 1997PublisherISBN9780762701391City Tavern Baking & Dessert Cookbook
AuthorStaib, Walter with Lindner, JenniferCall NumberTX763 .S72PublisherISBN9780762415540Experiencing Architecture
AuthorRasmussen, Steen EilerDescriptionTranslation from Danish by Eve WendtCall NumberNA2550 .R313PublisherThe Delaware Antiques Show
DescriptionEditions: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975,1984, 1985, 2014Call NumberNK805 .D45aDelftware: Faience Production at Delft
AuthorFourest, Henri-PierreDescriptionTranslation of La faÔences de DelftCall NumberNK4295 .F613PublisherISBN9780847803224
Flowers, Fruit, and Shells; Painting on Velvet, New Method of Oriental Tinting
AuthorWhittock, Nathaniel, Esq.Call NumberND1625Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 55, Number 2May 2016
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionFerrous Attractions: The Science Behind the Conservation Use of Rare-Earth MetalsDevelopment of Contact Portable Microfade Tester to Assess Light Sensitivity of Collection ItemsFluorescence Fails: Analysis of UVA induced Visible FluorescenceCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherSpoons From Around the World
AuthorRainwater, Dorothy & Felger, DonnaCall NumberNK7235 .R34PublisherISBN9780887404252American Furniture 1997
AuthorBeckerdite, Luke EditorDescriptionSouthern Furniture Dutch Trade Seventeenth Century Chesapeake Furniture Eighteenth-Century Furniture Cabinetmaking
Call NumberNK2405 .A6Publisher
A Culinary History of Southern Delaware
AuthorClemons, DeniseDescriptionScrapple, beach plums and muskrat†Call NumberTX631 .C546PublisherISBN9781467135467Colonial Williamsburg Celebrates 75 years of Collecting
AuthorTheobald, Mary MileyDescriptionHow the Reverend W.A.R Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. went about restoring Virginia's colonial capital.And how the Williamsburg of today was turned from a sleepy southern town into a city alive with the voices of history.Call NumberF234.W7PublisherISBN9780879352202
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
The Living History Anthology Perspectives from the (ALHFM) Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
AuthorKatz-Hyman, Martha B. EditorDescriptionEffective Techniques for first-person historical interpretationCall NumberS548.PublisherISBN9780815386865The Unsinkable Molly Brown House Denver, Colorado
Call NumberF771The Brandywine An Intimate Portrait
AuthorMaynard, W. Barksdale,DescriptionSweeping narrative about the men and women who shaped the Brandywine's history and culture.Call NumberF157.B77 M39 2015PublisherISBN9780812246773
Ceramics in America 2nd Printing
AuthorQuimby, Ian M. G. (editor)Call NumberNK4005 .W5PublisherISBN9780813904764350 Years of New Castle, Delaware: Chapters in a Town's History
AuthorCooper, Constance JDescriptionRichly illustrated anthology, published in celebration of New Castle's 350th anniversary, provides an introduciton to the town's rich historical heritage.Call NumberF174.N8 A15 2001PublisherISBN1892142120Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 52, Number 3August 2013
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionOil-Based House Paints from 1900-1960: An Examination of their History and Development, with Particular Reference fo Ripolin Enamels.Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Investigation of Materials and Techniques.Scientifically Investigation PiCall NumberN8554 .A53aCorporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century
AuthorHoffecker, Carol E.Call NumberJS1545.2 .H63†PublisherISBN087722305XEarly Americam Cookery "The Good Housekeeper," 1841
AuthorHale, Sarah Josepha Gillette, Mrs. F. L.DescriptionEarly Victorian cookbook shows the intriguing world of the mid-19th-century homemaker. It was designed to "promote the health, comfort, and prosperity" of American families.Call NumberTX715PublisherISBN0486292967
American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works November 2012Vol. 37, No. 6
DescriptionThe Preservation and Conservation of Electronic Music: Beats, Bits, and BytesCall NumberN8554 .A53aMonticello A Guidebook
AuthorNichols, Frederick D. and Bear, James A., Jr.Call NumberE312.5Ancient Families of Bohemia Manor, their homes and their graves
AuthorMallery, Rev. Charles PaysonDescriptionBrief summaries of 7 ancient familes of Bohemia Manor with alphabetical index in last 2 pages.Call NumberF161 .D35PublisherThe Seven Centuries Cookbook From Richard II to Elizabeth II
AuthorMcKendry, MaximeDescriptionTriumphant vindication of 7 centuries of English gastronomy. It corrects the commonplace conception of what the English culinary tradition represents.Call NumberTX715PublisherISBN9780070451537
