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(ALHFM) Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums Membership Directory
Call NumberS548.4PublisherThe Thirteen Colonies Cookbook: a collection of favourite receipts from thirteen exemplary eighteenth-century cooks with proper menus for simple fare and elegant entertainments and selected notes of historic interest, being a guide to open-hearth and bee-hive oven cookery, adapted for twentieth-century use
AuthorDonovan, Mary, Hatrak, Amy, Mills, Frances, etc.Call NumberTX715 .T39PublisherISBN9780275223007
A Rhinebeck Album 1776 1876 1976 (Revised 1984 of 1976 publication)
Call NumberF129At the Table in Colonial America 1700-1776
AuthorMitchell, Patircia B. Gillette, Mrs. F. L.DescriptionExplores some of the foodways at the time of our nation's birth and looks at the prosperity which created its figurative and ample girth.Call NumberTX715PublisherAmerican Kids in History Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes
AuthorKing, David C.DescriptionColonial Days is filled with interesting historical information and fun facts about growing up in days gone by. Discover how different--and how similar--life was for American kids in history.Call NumberE162PublisherISBN9780471161684Spoons From Around the World
AuthorRainwater, Dorothy & Felger, DonnaCall NumberNK7235 .R34PublisherISBN9780887404252Culinary 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 NumberTX3ISBN9780615894935Delaware Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers Volume 2 Delaware Marriages and Deaths from the Delaware Gazette 1854-59, 1861-64.
AuthorRichards, Mary F. & Richards, John C.DescriptionThis information about the marriages and deaths from the Delaware Gazette 1854 -59, 1861 -64 s a special publication from the Delaware Genealogical Society Abstracts form Newspapers Volume 2.Call NumberF163 .R53 1996PublisherISBN897252799The Garden of American Methodism: The Delmarva Peninsula 1769 1820
AuthorWilliams, William H.Call NumberBX8201Staining and Finishing Unfinished Furniture and Other Naked Woods
AuthorGrotz, GeorgeDescriptionServes as a practical guide to wood finishing, covering stains, shellac, varnish, oils, and waxes with a humorous, no-nonsense approach. It's a classic DIY manual for repairing and refinishing furniture, offering step-by-step instructions and practical tips for amateurs.†Call NumberNK2400PublisherHearth & Home: Preserving a People's Culture
AuthorMcDaniel, George W.Call NumberF182 .M32PublisherISBN9780877222330The Philadelphia Antiques Show: This Glorious House Stenton
Call NumberF158.8.S7Publisher
Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania 1680-1758
AuthorLindsey, Jack L.DescriptionStyles and aesthetics of early PA illustrate the rapid advances that took place in the colony during the late 17th and early 18th cent., not only in the arts but also in commerce, technology, scientific inquiry, and philosophy.Call NumberN6530.P4 L55 1999PublisherISBN9780876331293
The Associalted Press Stylebook and Libel Manual
AuthorFrench, Christopher (editor)Call NumberP301Currier & Ives : Printmakers to the American People
AuthorPeters, Harry T.DescriptionA chronicle of the firm, and of the artists and their work, with notes on collecting; reproductions of 142 of the prints and originals, forming a pictorial record of American life and manners in the last century; and a checklist of all known prints published by N. Currier and Currier & IvesCall NumberNE2415.C7 P4PublisherPhotogrammetric Recording of Cultural Resources
AuthorPerry E. BorchersCall NumberTR693 .B68The William K. DuPont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill Vol: I II
AuthorSotheby'sDescriptionWilliam K. du Pont assembled a collection that is entirely unique in character and importance, comprising some of the best examples of Americana.Call NumberNK1Publisher
The Delaware Seashore A Journey
AuthorMoore, Kevin N.DescriptionThrough words and photographs, a journey through the past, a journey of the present and a journey to the future.Call NumberF165 .B55PublisherIn Praise of America: American decorative arts, 1650-1830; fifty years of discovery since the 1929 Girl Scouts loan exhibition
AuthorCooper, Wendy A.DescriptionA landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. It commemorated the legendary 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition by showcasing 180 years of early American craftsmanship, tracing stylistic evolution and regional discoveries across the country.Call NumberNK806 .C63 1980PublisherISBN9780394509945
Start With a House Finish With A Collection
AuthorMiller, Leslie A Kirtley, AlexandraDescriptionThe story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Weber boxes, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the early American sensibility.Call NumberNK1PublisherISBN9781857599190English Furniture, 1660-1714: from Charles II to Queen Anne
AuthorBowett, AdamDescriptionDescribes the development of fashionable English furniture between the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714.Call NumberNK2528 .B685 2002PublisherISBN9781851493999
Art i Facts Summer 2016
AuthorHeuer, Amy, EditorDescriptionResearching Ungilded Daguerreotype Treatment.The Fellowship Year at CCAHA.Call NumberAM101A 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 2007PublisherISBN9780938420989American 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 NumberTX650PublisherISBN9780025885707Chinese Wallpaper in National Trust Houses
AuthordeBruin, Emile; Bush, Andrew & Clifford, HelenDescriptionWhen trade between Asia and Europe grew in the 17th century, Europeans developed a taste for Chinese art and design. By the mid-18th century, Chinese wallpapers had become a highly fashionable ingredient of British country house interiors. Eighteen historic houses in our care contain examples of Chinese wallcoverings. They include woodblock-printed wallpaper, collages of Chinese prints and paintings, and fully hand-painted wallpaper. Some of the historic woodblock prints used in these wallpapers now only survive in European houses, even though they were originally made for the Chinese market.Call NumberNK3400PublisherISBN9780707804286Sotheby's Caring For Antiques, The Complete Guide to Handling, Cleaning, Display and Restoration
AuthorSimpson, Mette Tang Huntley, Michael EditorsDescriptionAccessible advice on the precautions to be taken when handling, cleaning, storing and displaying antiques including detailed instructions on how to recognize conditions that may require attention.Call NumberNK1127.5 .S67 1992PublisherISBN9780671751050Art Across Time : Volume II: The Fourteenth Century to the Present 2nd edition
AuthorAdams, Laurie SchneiderDescription2nd ed.Call NumberN5300 .A3PublisherISBN9780072450064Pills, Pen & Politics: The Story of General Leon Jastremski
AuthorPinkowski, EdwardCall NumberF375 .P575ISBN9780960081417The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
AuthorMaddox, LucyCall NumberF187.C3 M24 2021PublisherISBN9781421440958Pierced By Mother: Over 100 Years of Quiltmaking Traditions
AuthorLasansky, JeannetteCall NumberNK9112 .L34 1987PublisherISBN9780917127021Cooking with Stone Ground Flour
AuthorKovash, Arlene Gillette, Mrs. F. L. Anderson, MarcieCall NumberTX809.W45 K68PublisherISBN0960539417
The Care of Historical Collections, A Conservation Handbook for the Nonspecialist
AuthorGuldbeck, Per E.DescriptionAppproaches the subject of conservation in three parts - health and safety of the total collection, documentation of the nature and composition of the artifacts, and specific problems and methods in the conservation of artifacts and first aidCall NumberNK1127.5 .G8ISBN9780910050074Everyday Dress of the American Colonial Period
AuthorCopeland, Peter F.DescriptionWigmakers, farriers (horse shoers), glassblowers, hatters, a whitesmith (tinsmith), cutlers, coopers, cabinetmakers, a coppersmith, and other tradesmen are shown in period costume at work, often in groups of two or more. On facing pages are illustrations of tools and products associated with each trade ó such as the whitesmith's anchored shears, flatting hammer, tin snips, tin candlestick, tin lantern, soldering iron, etc. A caption provides basic information on the craft.Call NumberGT607PublisherISBN9780486231099Delaware before the Railroads A Diamond Among the States
AuthorTabler, DavidDescriptionAn illustrated information book about the history of Delaware and its landmarks before the beginningof railroads in 1832. Note the book has been autographed by the author on the opening page, " Acknowledgements".Call NumberF164 .P88Publisher
American Elegance: Classic and Contemporary Menus from Celebrated Hosts and Hostesses
AuthorGibbs, Cheryl; Costin, LucindaCall NumberTX715 .A5132PublisherISBN9780896598867The Interior Paint of the Campbell Whittlesey House 1835 1836
AuthorSelden, Marjorie WardCall NumberTT300
