Library Collection
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Old Farms An Illustrated Guide
DescriptionExplores the relics of old farms from the farmhouse through the fields.Call NumberS760.G7 V566 1983PublisherISBN9780805207293
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Delaware Tercentenary Almanack & And Historical Repository
Call NumberF164 .D37PublisherThe Delaware Historical and Genealogical Recall of Matilda Spicer Hart
AuthorRichards, Mary FallonDescriptionListings of marriages, wills, orphans, depositions etc from 1933Call NumberF163 .D37PublisherA History of Union Lodge #5 A.F. & A.M. For the 250th Anniversary of Its Original Charter June 2015
AuthorLaing, Gary L.Call NumberF174Harriet Tubman, SECRET AGENT How Daring Slaves and Free Slaves Spied For the Union During the Civil War
AuthorAllen, Thomas H. Featuring illustrations by Carla BauerDescriptionA small book which highlights the work of Harriet Tubman and others involved with the Underground Railroad and her work as a secret agent for the Union during the Civil War. Chapters includes key characters involved as well as events that took place.Call NumberE444.T82 A73 2006PublisherISBN9780792278894The Chesapeake Bay Country
AuthorSwepson, EarleDescriptionA comprehensive index of names and locations, and, maps of Chesapeake Bay and St. Maryís City add to the value of this work.Call NumberF187.C5 E2Publisher
Handcraft to Industry: Philadelphia Ceramics in the First Half of the 19th Century
AuthorMyers, SusanDescriptionPhiladelphia Ceramics in the First Half of the 19th CenturyCall NumberHD9611.8.P48 M9PublisherExploring Maps: History, Fabrication, and Preservation
AuthorConservation Center for Art & Historic ArtifactsCall NumberZ701The 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
Antiques: Chronology of Crafts Reprint from Antiques Treasury of Furniture and other Decorative Arts
AuthorComstock, HelenCall NumberNK806 .A57Constitution of the State of Delaware as adopted in convention, June 4, 1897
Call NumberKFD401†PublisherAmerican Silver at Winterthur
AuthorQuimby, Ian M.DescriptionIn-depth study of the American silver collection at Winterthur sets some significant new standards for silver collection catalogs.Call NumberNK7112 .Q56 1995PublisherISBN9780912724324
Delaware History Vol. XXV Index
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionA thin pamphlet with a Table of Contents and a List of Illustrations followed by an Index from pages 277-286.Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherState of Delaware from the earliest settlements to the year 1907 Vol 1, 2,3
AuthorConrad, Henry C.DescriptionAn early history of DE up to 1907 that includes 3 volumes information about people, events, and places. Vol. 1 includes a colred map, portraits, and other illustrations.Call NumberF164 .C75PublisherWinterthur Farms Complete Dispersal Friday, September 12, 1969
Call NumberNK460PublisherChair Seat Weaving for Antique Chairs
AuthorSober, Marion BurrDescriptionDetailed, step-by-step instructions on traditional methods of hand-caning, pre-woven cane webbing, paper or natural rush, and flat reed splint.Call NumberTT199PublisherISBN9780938849001Herbs 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 Annual Delaware Antiques Show 2023
DescriptionThe handbook of the 2023 Delaware Antiques Show entilted: "Best of Americana", November 10- 12, 2023 from 11:00am--5:00pm. Special note should be made of "Lecture and Book Signing" at 2:00pm on Sunday, November 12. Presenter : Philip D. Zimmerman, "A Storied Past: Collections of Historic Odessa".Call NumberNK805 .D45aPublisherWilliam Penn and New Castle
DescriptionPublished in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the landing of William Penn at New Castle, DelawareCall NumberF174
Journal of the American Institute for ConservationFall/Winter 2012Volume 51, Number 2
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionCase Studied in Basketry Repair: Two Abenaki Splint Baskets.Resistance of Digitally and Traditionally Printed Materials to Bleed, Delamination, Gloss Change, and Planar Distortion During Flood.Effects of Low-Oxygen Environments in the Light Fading of SCall NumberN8554 .A53aThe Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques CLOCKS
AuthorShaffer, Douglas H.Call NumberTS540Nancy Shippen Her Journal: The International Romance of a Young Lady of Fashion of Colonial Philadelphia
AuthorArmes, Ethel (compiled by)DescriptionThe international romance of a young lady of fashion of colonial Philadelphia with letters to her and about her.
Call NumberE302.6.L67 L6PublisherKitchen Utensils: names, origins, and definitions through the ages
AuthorBrooks, Phillips V.Call NumberTX656 .B786 2004PublisherISBN9781403966193Dayett Mills Our American Heritage A Guide to Historical Resources in Delaware
AuthorMiller, Estelle K.DescriptionCooch-Dayett Mills (locally pronounced "Die-ett") is a historic, 1830s water-powered commercial grist mill located south of Newark, Delaware, near the corner of Old Baltimore Pike and Route 72. The site offers a glimpse into early American industry, with some milling activity on the property tracing back to the 1720sCall NumberF174A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
AuthorMalaro, Marie C.Call NumberKF4305 .M35PublisherISBN9780874746563Townsend: Yesterday and Today: A Local History Slide Presentation
Call NumberF174
Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens
AuthorPhipps, FrancesDescriptionCasts welcome light into numerous dark corners, clears up many old problems, and banishes more than one hallowed belief about this important room in the colonial home.Call NumberTX653 .P48 1972PublisherISBN9780801514340
Dictionary 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 Collection Of E. Newbold And Margaret Du Pont Smith
AuthorSotheby'sDescriptionAmerican furniture and paintings from the collection of the late E. Newbold and Margaret Peggy du Pont SmithCall NumberNK1Publisher
Winterthur in Bloom: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn Foreword by Henry Francis DuPont
AuthorBruce, HaroldDescriptionA delightful book with the photographs and textual information of the flowers and trees in all 4 seasons at Winterthur as of 1968. Contains a Key to Winterthur Gardens and index.Call NumberNK460PublisherTreasures of America and Where to Find Them
DescriptionDescriptions and locations of America's most treasured houses, museums, gardens, buildings, monuments, historic sites and other fascinating places to visit.Call NumberG153PublisherAmerican Antiques from Israel Sack Collection Vol 3
AuthorHennage, Joseph H.DescriptionBrochure 18, 1970 to brochure 21, 1972Call NumberNK805 .A64Publisher
Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan Sales Catalog Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times
AuthorAnderson GalleriesDescriptionThe 1931 sales catalog "Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan: Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times" documents a significant auction held by the American Art Association / Anderson Galleries in New York on January 8ñ10. It features premier 17thñ19th century American decorative arts, including pieces now recognized as masterpieces now in the Yale University Art Gallery.Call NumberNK1Publisher
Conservation and Restoration of Pictorial Art
AuthorBrommelle, Norman Smith, Perry EditorsDescriptionThe chapters consist substantially of papers presented at a Congress in Lisbon of the International Institute for Consevation of Historic and Artistic Works in October 1972.Call NumberND1640 .C57PublisherISBN9780408707121Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700 1850
AuthorSwan, Susan BarrowsCall NumberTT715 .S9PublisherISBN003015121XThe Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America
AuthorStillinger, ElizabethDescription1600-1875Call NumberNK805 .S7PublisherISBN9780525055853Herbs & Things Jeanne Rose's Herbal
AuthorRose, JeanneDescription1974 printingCall NumberRS164 .R67PublisherISBN9780448024578Along the Brandywine River
AuthorMowday, Bruce EdwardDescriptionExplores the creek's importance from the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brandywine through 20th-century settlements. The collected postcards show the countryside as it appeared during the Revolutionary War Battle at Brandywine through the time of nineteenth-century settlements in the region and into the twentieth century.Call NumberE151PublisherISBN073850940XSlavery and Public History: the Tough Stuff of American Memory
AuthorHorton, James Oliver & Lois E. (editors)Call NumberE441PublisherHunters and Fishermen of Prehistoric Delaware Reprint from DE Conservationist Number 3 Vol. XII
AuthorThomas, Ronald A.Call NumberF161Delaware History Vol. XXVIII, No.1 1998
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThis volume contains four articles: 1. "As We Lived It: The Paddock Family in Wilmington, Delaware, Part 3"; 2. "Thrifty and intelligent, moral and religious": Wilmington's Free African American Community as Portrayed in the Blue Hen's Chicken, 1846-185Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherCulinary 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 NumberTX3ISBN9780615894935
