Library Collection
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American Furniture 1997
AuthorBeckerdite, Luke EditorDescriptionSouthern Furniture Dutch Trade Seventeenth Century Chesapeake Furniture Eighteenth-Century Furniture Cabinetmaking
Call NumberNK2405 .A6Publisher
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Little Book of Early American Crafts and Trades
AuthorStockholm, Peter (editor)Call NumberT47 .B722†PublisherISBN9780486233369A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago
AuthorNaeve, MiloRoberts, Lynn SpringerCall NumberNK805 .A78 1986ISBN9780865590694
Delaware History Vol. XXXI No.1 2005
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 31, No.1. has three articles: 1."The Artists of Brandwine Springs: Revelations of Design and Use"; 2. "An English Tory and His Delaware Family: The Petersons of Delaware"; 3. "Another Look at Frank Zevley's Churches of Delaware, Part 1".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherRecipes from the Personal Cookbook of Thomas Jefferson
DescriptionHis personal collection, preserved by his family and the Library of Congress, features both European sophistication and plantation-style Virginia comfortCall NumberTX715Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice 2nd Edition
AuthorMcDaniel, Donna and Julye, VanessaCall NumberBX7601Winterthur Magazine
DescriptionIssues: 1987, 1988, 1990-1999, 2002, 2003, 2005Call NumberNK460.W5 A2Ceramics in America 2nd Printing
AuthorQuimby, Ian M. G. (editor)Call NumberNK4005 .W5PublisherISBN9780813904764Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic 1755 1828
Call NumberND237.S8 A46PublisherA History of Asbury United Methodist Church Smyrna, Delaware Founded 1778
AuthorCaley, George L.Call NumberBX8201The 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 .D3PublisherA Windsor Handbook
AuthorNutting, WallaceCall NumberNK2715 .N8ISBN9780804811057Henry Francis du Pont 1880 1969
AuthorSweeney, John A. H.Call NumberCT3200Audubon's Birds of America
AuthorAudubon, John JamesCall NumberQL681The Primer of American Antiques Illustrated
AuthorDrepperd, Carl W.DescriptionReprint of the ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.YCall NumberNK805 .D73 1980PublisherHistory of Chrisfield and Surrounding Areas on Maryland's Eastern Shore
AuthorWilson, Woodrow T.DescriptionCrisfield, Maryland, a small city on the southernmost part of Maryland's Eastern Shore formerly was known as Somers Cove and called the seafood capital of the world. Using original primary and secondary sources, this book offers history, folklore, and photographs of areas, businesses and people of interest to Crisfield as well as Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Marion Station areas.Call NumberF187PublisherISBN9798879739985
New Castle On The Delaware
AuthorNew Castle Historical Society Foreward by Edward W. Cooch, Jr., President of the New Castle Historical Society.DescriptionThe third edition of this book, New Castle on the Delaware was published on the eve of the Bicenntennial of American Independnce. It has information about the distinguished citizens of the town who played roles in the signing of the Declaration of Independence: George Read and Thomas McKean. It also includes many other historical facts of the town that have been updated from the 1st two editions.Call NumberF174.N5 F42Publisher
Life in The English Country House A Social and Architectural History
AuthorGirouard, MarkDescriptionHistory of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Revealing glimpse of the English upper classes--their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes.Call NumberHT653.G7 G57PublisherISBN9780300058703
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 .A53aUseful Beauty: early American decorative arts from St. Louis collections
AuthorCanradson, David H.Call NumberNK806 .C625 1999PublisherISBN9780891780809
Delaware Genealogical Research Guide
DescriptionInformation on the types of records availabe in Delaware, where they are kept and where they can be found.Call NumberF163.D349PublisherA Story of the Odessa Quakers
AuthorWalker, John S.Call NumberBX7601Corporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century
AuthorHoffecker, Carol E.Call NumberJS1545.2 .H63†PublisherISBN087722305XBed Hangings: A Treatise on Fabrics and Styles in the Curtaining of Beds 1650 1850
AuthorCummings, Abbot Lowell (compiled by)Call NumberGT455.N48 B4Dictionary 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 Davenport House Savannah, GA
Call NumberLC-J7-GA- 1178The Old Salem Toy Museum
AuthorGray, Thomas A.Call NumberNK9509.4.W56 O436 2005PublisherISBN9781879704091The 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.PublisherISBN9780815386865Conservation 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 .C57PublisherISBN9780408707121Start 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 NumberNK1PublisherISBN9781857599190The Book and Paper Group Annual Volume 30 2011
Call NumberZ700.9 .B66Looking at Photographs: a guide to technical terms
AuthorBaldwin, Gordon & Jurgens, MartinCall NumberTR9 .B35 2009PublisherISBN9780892369713The American Fireplace: Chimneys, Mantelpieces, Fireplaces and Accessories
AuthorKauffman, Henry J.DescriptionAccount of American fireplaces from the primitive hearths of Jamestown to the sophisticated models of today.Call NumberNA3050 .K34 1972bPublisherISBN9780883653302
The Journal of Major George Washington
AuthorGray, Emma J.DescriptionAn account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the Commandant of the French Forces on the Ohio, October 1753- January 1754Call NumberE312.8PublisherThe annual ... winter antiques show
AuthorEast Side Settlement BenefitDescriptionIssues: 1967, 1978, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1998, 1999Call NumberNK1125 .A22PublisherColonial 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 .T8PublisherOnce of a Night Ghost Stories Told in Delaware
AuthorBurdick, Kim RogersCall NumberF174Eleutherian Mills Historical Library: A Record of Its Dedication on Oct. 7, 1961
DescriptionRecord of its dedication on 7 October 1961Call NumberZ733 .E4PublisherTechnological Innovations and the Decorative Arts
AuthorEarl, Polly Ann Quimby, Ian M. G. (editor)Call NumberT19 .W77PublisherISBN9780813905693
A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library
AuthorRiggs, John BeverlyDescriptionAccessions through the year 1965Call NumberZ7164.E2 E44†PublisherThe American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies
AuthorThe Editors of American HeritageCall NumberE188 .W79Publisher
