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The Janvier Family of Cabinetmakers of Odessa, Delaware Master of Arts Thesis
AuthorSharp, L. CorwinCall NumberNK1The Book and Paper Group Annual Volume Thirty-nine 2020
DescriptionPapers presented at the Book and Paper Group Annual Meeting 2020Call NumberZ700.9 .B66A Rhinebeck Album 1776 1876 1976 (Revised 1984 of 1976 publication)
Call NumberF129Past Into Present: Effective Techniques for First Person Historical Interpretation
AuthorRoth, Stacy F.DescriptionEffective Techniques for first-person historical interpretationCall NumberD16.25 .R68 1998PublisherISBN9780807824078Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 61, Issue 1 2022
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionSuitability of unplasticized poly vinyl chloride for showcasesHeat and solvent-set repair tissuesRediscovery of Jan Ruyscher and its consequenceCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherDictionary 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
Bounty of Biltmore a cookbook
AuthorPickering, Whitney Wheeler Editor Gold, CharlesDescriptionAllows readers to savor the delicious cuisine and gracious hospitality that represent the pleasures of fine dining at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.Call NumberTX715 .B7558 2000PublisherISBN9780848719555Field Guide to Emergency Response A vital tool for cultural institutions
DescriptionDescribes the kind of problems that might be encountered and how to deal with them.Call NumberAM121 .F55 2006PublisherDelaware History Vol. XXVII, No. 1-2, 1996-7
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThis book contains Nos.1-2 and has 5 articles: 1. "Introduction"; 2. "Be Loyal to Your Industry": Frank gordy, Jr., the Cooperative Extension Service, and the Making of a Business Community in the Delmarva Poultry Industry, 1945-1970"; 3. "Evangelist PeCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherThe Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg
AuthorHeuvel, Johannes (Interpreter)Call NumberNK2500Glossary of Needlework Terms
AuthorSwan, Susan B.Call NumberTT753Liberty and Independence The Delaware State During the American Revolution
AuthorHancock, Harold B.Call NumberE263.D3 H36Washi Basics
AuthorNakamura, Ann K.Call NumberTS1130 .N16 1994PublisherISBN9784990032319Look Back with Love: The Duck Creek Fergusons
AuthorFerguson, BassettCall NumberCT3200An Edible History of Humanity
AuthorStandage, TomDescriptionA journey through the uses of food that have helped to shape and transform societies around the world, from prehistory to the present. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, anthropology, ethno-botany and economics, the story of these gastronomic revolutions is a deeply satisfying account of the whole of human history.
Call NumberGT2850 .S73 2009PublisherISBN9780802715883The Philadelphia Chair, 1685-1785
AuthorKindig, Joseph K. IIICall NumberNK2715 .K48
Looms and Weaving
AuthorBenson, AnnaWarburton, NeilCall NumberTS1490 .B42 1986PublisherISBN9780852637531The Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch: Hidden Glen Farms
AuthorSotheby'sDescriptionThe sale includes Chippendale carved furniture, Delft ceramics, dueling pistols, needlepoint samplers and artwork.Call NumberNK1Publisher
Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 54, Number 2May 2015
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionThe Use of Flexible Sticks for ClampingChoosing an adhesive for Exterior Woodwork through Mechanical TestingSource Code Analysis as Techical Art HistoryExamining and Conserving and Eygptian Anthropoid CoffinCall NumberN8554 .A53aAudubon's Birds of America
AuthorAudubon, John JamesCall NumberQL681The Old Salem Toy Museum
AuthorGray, Thomas A.Call NumberNK9509.4.W56 O436 2005PublisherISBN9781879704091Martin'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 N63PublisherISBN9780394507286Delaware History Vol. XXXIII No. 3 2011
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 33, No. 3 contains three articles: 1. " The Slaves of Whitehall Plantation: A True Story of Defiance and Reistance"; 2. "For America Now, Huzza!: Revisiting Alexander Hamilton's Favorite Song"; 3. "Another Look at Frank Zebley's Churches of DCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherEarly American Crafts and Occupations
AuthorCopeland, Peter F.DescriptionTravel back in time over 300 years for an authentic glimpse of typical occupations practiced in colonial America from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Artist Peter Copeland makes it possible in this carefully researched and meticulously rendered coloring book. Forty lively scenes ó five of them double-page ó depict a variety of tradespeople and crafters: the watercart driver, who supplied townspeople with fresh water daily for a small fee; the town crier, a colonial version of today's TV newscaster; the tinker, a traveling repairman; and many more.Call NumberTT23PublisherISBN9780486282978Letters of Benjamin Rush Volume II: 1793 1813
AuthorRush, Benjamin Butterfield, L. H. (editor)Call NumberR154.R9 A4The 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
Currier & Ives
AuthorCunningham, F.A.Call NumberNE2312Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania
AuthorSchiffer, Margaret BerwindCall NumberNK2435.P4 S3PublisherThe American Craftsmen and the Eurpean Tradition 1620-1820
AuthorPuig, Francis J. Conforti, MichaelCall NumberNK2400PublisherISBN9780912964386
Selections from the Campbell Museum Collection
DescriptionA renowned assemblage of historic, high-quality soup tureens and related dining silver, porcelain, and earthenware from Europe, Asia, and America, dating from 1720 to the present. Founded in 1966 by the Campbell Soup Company, the collection features ornate pieces designed for serving soup.Call NumberNK1PublisherThe Antiques Book
AuthorEdited by Alice Winchester and the staff of the magazine AntiquesDescription†Outstanding, authoritative articles on ceramics, furniture, glass, silver, pewter, architecture, prints and other collecting interests.†Call NumberNK1125 .A6The Colonial Cook
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDiscusses the foods, methods, equipment, and places used by cooks in colonial AmericaCall NumberTX715 .K127496 2002PublisherISBN9780778707943"Wood Shavings to Hot Sparks": The History of Shipbuilding in Milford, Delaware
AuthorOates, MichaelCall NumberF174
