Library Collection
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The Virginia House: A Home for Three Hundred Years
AuthorFaulconer, Anne M.DescriptionPresents a full survey of Tidewater Virginia homes constructed between 1640 and 1830.Call NumberNA7206 .F38 1984PublisherISBN9780887400049
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Whatever Shall I Wear?: A Guide to Assembling an 18th C Woman's Wardrobe
AuthorRiley, Mara & Johnson, CathyDescriptionGuide for 18th-century reenactors, covering garments from the early century to the Federal period. It focuses on American colonial, middle-class clothing, offering guidance on materials, basic stitches, and garment constructionCall NumberGTPublisherArt Objects Their Care and Preservation Volume I
AuthorFall, Frieda KayDescriptionHandling and preservation of art objects.Call NumberN8560 .F3PublisherDelaware 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 .D37Publisherdu Pont The Autobiography of An American Enterprise
DescriptionThe story of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the company on July 19, 1802.Call NumberHD9651.9.D8 A5Publisher
Discover the Winterthur Estate
AuthorEversmann, Pauline K.Call NumberNK460.W48 H4533 1998ISBN9780912724447Collectors 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 .A63Chinese Export Porcelain: Standard patterns and forms, 1780 to 1880
AuthorSchiffer, Herbert, Peter and NancyCall NumberNK4565.5 .S34PublisherBoscobel House and Gardens
AuthorBoscobel.orgDescriptionBoscobel House and Gardens is an esteemed Historic House Museum containing one of the finest collections of decorative arts, including furniture, from the Federal period.Call NumberF116North Devon Pottery and Its Export to American in the 17th Century
AuthorWatkins, C. MalcomCall NumberNK4087Colonial Williamsburg, its buildings and gardens; a descriptive tour of the restored capital of the British Colony of Virginia
AuthorKocher, A. Lawrence and Dearstyne, HowardCall NumberF234.W7 K6 1961PublisherMartin's Hundred (A First Account of One of the Most Important Excavations in American Historical Archaeology
AuthorHume, Ivor NoelDescriptionA First Account of One of the Most Important Excavations in American Historical ArchaeologyCall NumberF234.M378 N63PublisherISBN9780394507286E.I. du Pont, Botaniste: The Beginning of a Tradition
AuthorWilkinson, Norman B.DescriptionPublished for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley FoundationCall NumberSB63.D87 W55PublisherISBN9780813903996British Delft at Williamsburg
AuthorAustin, John CecilDescriptionMore than seven hundred museum-quality examples acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation during the past sixty years.Call NumberNK4295.5.G7 A92 1994PublisherISBN9780879351267
English 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
The American Arts Library: American Glass
AuthorMcClinton, Katharine MorrisonDescriptionThe American Arts LibraryCall NumberNK5112 .M24PublisherSeeking the Historical Cook Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways
AuthorMoss, Kay K. Gillette, Mrs. F. L.DescriptionServes up authentic recipes combined withyears of in-depth research into period cooking methodology, seasoning it with sizable helpings of her infectious enthusiasm.Call NumberTX715.2.S68 M678 2013PublisherISBN9781611172591
DEL-GEN Data Bank, Delaware Genealogical Discoveries Volume 1 Number 4
AuthorRichards, Mary FallonDescriptionA modernization of Matilda Spicer Hart's work in 1903 and goes beyond the first year. The records are reproduced in the form they were found includinge the index in Number 4. There are 4 Table of Contents listed on the cover page.Call NumberF163 .D32PublisherHistorical Needlework of Pennsylvania
AuthorSchiffer, Margaret BerwindDescriptionExamples described are samplers, which include some unusual darning and drawn-work samplers as well as the more familiar cross-stitch type; crewel embroidery, silk embroidered pictures, Florentine stitch embroidery, and the canvas and Berlin work of theCall NumberNK9110 .S35PublisherISBN9781199092113
The Connoisseur's Complete Period Guides to the Houses, Decoration, Furnishing and Chattels of the Classic Periods
AuthorEdwards, Ralph and Ramsey L. G. G. editorsDescriptionCovers the Tudor-Stuart, Early Georgian, Late Georgian-Regency and Early Victorian periods.Call NumberNK928 .C63Publisher
Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture
AuthorKeno, Leigh and Keno, LeslieCall NumberNK1133.26.K46 A2PublisherISBN9780446526920The Illustrated Dictionary of Lace
AuthorGynne, Judyith L.DescriptionA dictionary with information about lace in dictionary format. Contains illustrations.Call NumberTT800.G974 1997PublisherISBN0713478217
Interpretative Design and the Dance of Experience
AuthorVan Matre, SteveCall NumberGV181.18 .V36 2008PublisherISBN9780917011238A Social History of Tea: Tea's influence on commerce, culture , etc.
AuthorPettigrew, Jane & Richardson, BruceDescriptionTea's influence on commerce, culture , etc.Call NumberGT2907.G7 P48PublisherISBN070780289XDelaware History Vol. XXV No. 4 1993-4
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThree articles: 1. Everett Johnson (1879-1926): Political Visionary and Eternal Optimist"; 2. "Securing One of the Blessings of Liberty: Black Families in Lower New Castle County, 1790-1850"; 3. Chicken-House Apartments on the Delmarva Peninsula"; 4.Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherHistory of Delaware Index
AuthorScharf, J. ThomasDescriptionHistory of Delaware - INDEX 1609 -1888Call NumberF164 .S3 1972PublisherISBN940907178The World of Bertoia
AuthorSchiffer, Nancy N. Bertoia, ValoDescriptionItalian-born Bertoia (d.1978) studied at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and went on to set up a studio for sculpture and furniture in Pennsylvania.†Call NumberNB237.B44 A4 2003PublisherISBN9780764317989
Currier & Ives
AuthorCunningham, F.A.Call NumberNE2312Exploring Maps: History, Fabrication, and Preservation
AuthorConservation Center for Art & Historic ArtifactsCall NumberZ701Wrought with Careful Hand: Ties of Kinship on DE Samplers
AuthorAnderson, Lynne & Allen, Gloria SeamanCall NumberNK9112 .W76 2014PublisherISBN9781893287129Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art
AuthorHall, JamesDescriptionReference book divided into six sections, according to subject: abstract signs, Animals (including birds and insects0, Artefacts, Earth and Sky, Human Body and Dress, Plants.Call NumberN7740 .H35PublisherISBN64309827
The World of Antiques, Art and Architecture in Victorian America
AuthorBishop, Robert & Coblentz, PatriciaCall NumberNK807 .B54†PublisherISBN9780525474302American 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 NumberE162PublisherISBN9780471161684Caring for Your Historic House
AuthorHeritage Preservation and National Park ServiceCall NumberTH4817 .C32 1998PublisherISBN9780810927797Colonial Women
AuthorWalker, NikiDescriptionIntroduces the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial AmericaCall NumberHQ1416 .W35 2003PublisherISBN9780778707950The Williamsburg art of cookery; or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most ancient & approv'd recipes in Virginia cookery...And also a table of favorite Williamsburg garden herbs...
AuthorBullock, HelenDescriptionRectangular form; patterned paper boards with tan ground bearing a grid of orange broken lines forming repeating diamonds in each of which is a green floral sprig; white leatherette trim at spine with gilt lettering: "The WILLIAMSBURG ART OF COOKERY -- Bullock"; handwritten ink inscription inside reads: " ? May/ Williamsburg. May 1\st/ 1950". Printer: - Dietz & SonCall NumberTX715 .B946Publisher
The Gourmet Cookbook Volume 1 (Revised)
Call NumberTX633 .G72Bookbinding The Classic Arts and Crafts Manual
AuthorCockerell, DouglasDescriptionDescribes the best methods of bookbinding, and of keeping books when bound, taking into account the present-day conditions.Call NumberZ271 .C66 2005PublisherISBN9780486440392
