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Old Clothes: But all I wanted to do was wear old clothes and go backÖ.
AuthorPawling, RichardDescriptionCaptures the essence of "living history". For historians, docents, and reenactors, slipping into authentic period clothing acts as an immersive tool to bridge the gap between modern life and the past.Call NumberE171ISBN9781463542191Delaware Archives, Military and Naval, Vol II
DescriptionAn archival book of Delaware Military and Naval information. Volume 2 of a 3 volume setCall NumberF161The Lipton Collection: Antique English Silver Designed for Serving Tea
AuthorThomas J. Lipton, IncDescriptionA review of different styles of teapots and tea caddies in the Lipton Tea Company's collection of antique English silver relating to tea drinking.Call NumberNK7143 .D3PublisherAmerican Indian Food and Lore 150 Authentic Recipes
AuthorNiethammer, CarolynDescriptionFocuses on the customs and foods that American Indians of the southwestern desert regions of North America enjoyed.
Call NumberTX650PublisherISBN9780025885707The Nutcracker Lady's Introduction to Nutcrackers
AuthorWagner, ArleneDescriptionAn educational and engaging guide to the history, types, and craftsmanship of nutcrackersCall NumberNK8551PublisherISBN9780978513504Archival Products News Volume 15 No.1 2008
DescriptionJMU Libraries and Educational Technologies Celebrates James Madison University's Centennial with Real and Virtual Exhibits.The Next Wave of Statewide Preservation Planning.Call NumberZ700PublisherDiscover the Winterthur Estate
AuthorEversmann, Pauline K.Call NumberNK460.W48 H4533 1998ISBN9780912724447The 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 1989PublisherColonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry
AuthorTunis, EdwinDescriptionDescribes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops,Call NumberT21 .T8PublisherAmerican Painted Furniture 1790 1880
AuthorSchaffner, Cynthia A. & Klein, SusaCall NumberNK2406 .S33PublisherISBN9780517700839Delaware History Vol. XXVI No.1 1994
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThree articles: 1. " Barriers to Technological Diffusion: Samuel Bancroft, Jr., and the Mather Kier in America, 1885-1907"; 2. Charles Pusey's Voyage to Trinidad and the Orinoco in 1890"; 3. "John Abel Hopkins, Jr.: Distinguished Agricultural EconomisCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherLayton's Legacy: A Historic Art Collection, 1888-2013
AuthorEastberg, John C. Vogel, EricDescriptionDraws on a recently discovered archive of Layton family papers, travel journals, and vintage photographs and on five years of extensive archival research in the United States and Great Britain.Call NumberN582.M5 A85PublisherISBN9780982381014
The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1786 Rule Book
AuthorPeterson, Charles E. (Annotated with an Introduction)DescriptionArticles of the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia and their rules for measuring and valuing house-carpenters workCall NumberTH5608 .C25 1971aPublisherISBN9780878610167Henry Benbridge, Charleston Portrait Painter (1743 -1812)
AuthorMack, Angela Exhibit CuratorDescriptionThe goal of this exhibition is two-fold: to bring the work of Henry Benbridge into clearer focus, and to reinforce and understanding of Charleston's role in the artistic legacy of this nation.Call NumberND1329.B45Publisher
The American Craftsman
AuthorWilliamson, Scott GrahamCall NumberHD2346.U5 W55Newport Gazette Number 24 October 1965
Call NumberF89.N5PublisherCollectors and Collections: The Antiques Anniversary Book
AuthorWinchester, Alice, ed.Description†The Antiques anniversary book. Edited by Alice Winchester and the staff of Antiques magazine.Call NumberNK1125 .A63House Paints in Colonial America: Their Materials Manufacture and Application
AuthorCandee, Richard M.Call NumberTT300Delaware 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 .D37PublisherAmish Quilts of Lancaster County
AuthorHerr, Patricia T.Call NumberNK9112 .H467 2004PublisherISBN9780764320170Property from the Collection of The Henry Francis duPont Wintherthur Museum
AuthorSotheby Parke Bernet Inc.DescriptionThe paperback catalog is a list of the property ffrom the Collection of the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Musem that was put on auction in April 1978. In the catalog are listed pieces that were in the Corbit Sharp House in Odessa 1978.Call NumberNK460Publisher
The Drinking Gourd
AuthorBrenner, F. N.DescriptionSent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroadCall NumberPZ7.M75 DrPublisherJournal 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 .A53aThe People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
AuthorMaddox, LucyCall NumberF187.C3 M24 2021PublisherISBN9781421440958Middletown Odessa Townsend (Information & Services Booklet)
AuthorMiddletown, DE Chamber of CommerceCall NumberF174A Visit to Old New Castle Our American Heritage A Guide to Historical Resources in Delaware
AuthorMiller, Estelle K.Call NumberF174The Delaware Continentals
AuthorWard, ChristopherDescriptionThe landmark study in the military history of the American Revolution written by the author of "The War of the Revolution." The work is an exhaustive study of the organization of this regiment and its action throughout the war, especially at Long Island, Brooklyn, Trenton, Princeton, and the middle Atlantic states and its later service at Camden, King's Mountain, Guilford Court House, and Yorktown. Unabridged reprint of the original 1941 edition.Call NumberE263.D3 W3Publisher
The brass book : American, English, and European, fifteenth century through 1850
AuthorSchiffer, Herbert F. Schiffer, Peter Berwind Schiffer, Nancy N.DescriptionLarge sections are devoted to andirons, candlesticks, fireplace accessories, kettles and tobacco boxes. Explains the composition of brass, eighteenth century method of sand casting, and ways to identify old copies and fakes.Call NumberNK7804 .S3 1978PublisherISBN091683817X
The American Craftsmen and the Eurpean Tradition 1620-1820
AuthorPuig, Francis J. Conforti, MichaelCall NumberNK2400PublisherISBN9780912964386
Once Upon a Time in Delaware
AuthorPyle, KatharineCall NumberF165 .P99Guide to Lace and Linens
AuthorKurella, Elizabeth M.Call NumberNK9404 .K869 1998PublisherISBN9780930625894Delaware The Diamond State
Call NumberF164 .D4Annapolis: A Walk Through History
AuthorAnderson, Elizabeth B.Call NumberF189.A68 A23PublisherISBN9780870333118Country Folk Medicine: tales of skunk oil, sassafras tea and other old-time remedies
AuthorJanos, Elisabeth EditorDescriptionTales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea, and Other Old-Time RemediesCall NumberGR106 .J36 2004PublisherISBN9781592281787American Furniture 2001
AuthorBeckerdite, Luke EditorDescriptionMannerist Furniture Cabinetmakers New York Turned Chairs Schranke
Call NumberNK2405 .A6Publisher
A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738 1860
AuthorAllen, Gloria SeamanDescription"A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860 presents for the first time an extraordinary assemblage of Maryland samplers and pictorial embroideries that will appeal to scholars, collectors, and modern day embroiderers. Students of women's history, the decorative arts, and Maryland history will discover more about the role of needlework in early female education and in the lives of ordinary women in the changing currents of Chesapeake regional history.Call NumberNK9112 .A46 2007PublisherISBN9780938420989
