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Great Southern Mansions
AuthorStuart, Jozefa and Gatherings, WilsonCall NumberF206PublisherISBN9780802705761In 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
City Tavern Baking & Dessert Cookbook
AuthorStaib, Walter with Lindner, JenniferCall NumberTX763 .S72PublisherISBN9780762415540The First American Cookbook A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796
AuthorSimmons, Amelia L. Wilson, Mary Tolford - essayDescriptionFacsimile of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States. Reveals the rich variety of food Colonial Americans enjoyed, their tastes, cooking and eating habits, even their colorful language.Call NumberTX703 .S5 1984bPublisherISBN9780486247106
History Hunters Youth Reporter Program
DescriptionAward-winning, literacy-based educational initiative in Philadelphia, PA, that turns 4th and 5th-grade students into "investigative reporters". Students use pre-visit workbooks to read about local history, then visit five historic sites across the Northwest Philadelphia area to document their learning through on-site exploration and post-trip creative writing.Call NumberE162Delaware History Vol. XXXII Index
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume XXXII Index is a white pamphlet just like other indices. It contains a Table of Contents, a List of Illustrations followed by the Index.Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherNarratives of Early PA, West NJ, and DE 1630-1707
AuthorMyers, Albert CookDescriptionNarratives of Early PA, West NJ, and DE 1630-1707Call NumberF106 .M98PublisherStone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania's Bucks County and Brandywine Valley
AuthorGross, Geoffrey Ritchie, Margaret ByeHuber, Gregory D.Milner, John D.DescriptionBeloved building traditions in one of the most charming and historically significant regions in the nation. Houses, barns, and outbuildings dating from the colonial and Federal periods.Call NumberNA7170 .R53PublisherISBN9780847826872
Eighteenth Century Prints in Colonial America
AuthorDolmetsch, Joan D. (editor)Call NumberNE506 .E36PublisherISBN9780879350499More American Furniture Treasures 1620 1840
AuthorMargon, Lester, A.I.D.Call NumberNK2406 .M392PublisherISBN9780803801639Silk Art Embroidery: A Women's History of Ornament & Empowerment
AuthorCardwell, DonnaCall NumberNK9204 .C37 2008PublisherISBN9780764329067Collection of the Late Arthur J. Sussel Arts and Crafts of Pennsylvania and Other Notable Americans Vol. 1,2,3
AuthorParke Bernet GalleriesDescriptionVol. 1: 642 lots are described. Vol. 2: 729 lots are described. Vol. 3: 739 lots are described. Several lots in each part are illustrated.Call NumberNK1Publisher
The Great Age of Fresco Giotto to Pontormo Exhibition at NYC Metropolitan Museum
Description"Organized in collaboration with the Soprintendenza of the Florentine Galleries."Call NumberND2755 .G7PublisherLift The Spirit
AuthorDillon, Clarissa F.DescriptionEnglish colonists drank various fermented beverages that varied depeding upon what was available inthe area.Call NumberTX705PublisherAmerican Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works November 2012Vol. 37, No. 6
DescriptionThe Preservation and Conservation of Electronic Music: Beats, Bits, and BytesCall NumberN8554 .A53aThe Interior Paint of the Campbell Whittlesey House 1835 1836
AuthorSelden, Marjorie WardCall NumberTT300American Seating Furniture 1630-1730 an interpretive catalogue
AuthorForman, Benno M.DescriptionExplores the social and economic milieu of the American colonies and their European antecedents that produced these chairs and other furniture.Call NumberNK2715 .F65 1988PublisherISBN9780393025163
Quilt Restoration A Practical Guide
AuthorCognac, Camille DalphondCall NumberTT835 .C634 1994PublisherISBN9780939009831The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others
AuthorStill, WilliamDescriptionA "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821-1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He created this collection of preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrowCall NumberE450 .S85PublisherA Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library
AuthorRiggs, John BeverlyDescriptionAccessions through the year 1965Call NumberZ7164.E2 E44†PublisherColours from Nature: A Dyer's Handbook
AuthorDean, JennyDescriptionDescribes in full detail how to prepare and use natural dyes on a variety of fibres to produce a wide range of colours, following safe and environmentally-friendly methods.Call NumberSB285PublisherISBN9781844484683Alfred Lee First Bishop of Delaware
AuthorCongregation of St. Andrews Church, WilmingtonCall NumberBX5800The Friends Meeting House, Frenchay
AuthorVinter, DorothyCall NumberBX7601The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life
AuthorThompson, Elenanor McD.DescriptionFifteen essays, spanning the period from the mid-17th to the early 20th century, explore the history of the American house and home.Call NumberNA8480 .A63 1998PublisherISBN9780912724492
Membership Development: A Guide for Nonprofit Preservation Organizations
AuthorHorsey, Catherine A.Call NumberAMRock Ford Coloring Book
AuthorTaylor, Florence StarrDescriptionThe lovely country home of Major General Hand.Call NumberGV1218Middletown Odessa Townsend (Information & Services Booklet)
AuthorMiddletown, DE Chamber of CommerceCall NumberF174Early Furniture Made in New Jersey 1690 1870 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Description†Exhibition, October 10, 1958-January 11, 1959, the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.Call NumberNK2435.N5 N48PublisherA Culinary History of Southern Delaware
AuthorClemons, DeniseDescriptionScrapple, beach plums and muskrat†Call NumberTX631 .C546PublisherISBN9781467135467Japanese Papermaking Traditions, Tools, and Techniques
AuthorBarrett, TimothyDescriptionA new, deeper understandingof the Japanese craft of making paper by hand.Call NumberTS1130 .B37 1983PublisherISBN083480185XMonticello A Guidebook
AuthorNichols, Frederick D. and Bear, James A., Jr.Call NumberE312.5Growing Up Black in New Castle County
AuthorNutter, Jeanne D. (compiled by)DescriptionChronicling the period from 1900 to the 1950s, Growing Up Black in New Castle County, Delaware brings together the touching stories of African Americans in northern Delaware who grew up during an era of both hardship and happiness. In a time when racial segregation was law and the nation faced such challenges as war and economic depression, African-American children in New Castle County and around the country were busy exploring the world around them-playing with friends, celebrating holidays, attending school, and learning the important life lessons that would carry them through the rest of the twentieth century.Call NumberE740PublisherISBN9780738506227Folk Housing in Middle Virginia
AuthorGlassie, Henry H.Call NumberNA7235.V5 G55PublisherISBN9780870491733The People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation
AuthorMaddox, LucyCall NumberF187.C3 M24 2021PublisherISBN9781421440958
