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Canal town : historic Chesapeake City
AuthorPerkins, Esther R.DescriptionToday, Chesapeake City is the only town in Maryland that is situated on a working commercial canal. Most of its interesting 19th-century architecture remains intact, and the area that encompasses it on the south bank has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.Call NumberF189.C5 S39Rock Ford Coloring Book
AuthorTaylor, Florence StarrDescriptionThe lovely country home of Major General Hand.Call NumberGV1218Collectors 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 .A63Quakerism on the Eastern Shore
AuthorCarrol, KennethDescriptionExceedingly-scarce history of Quakers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, a hotbed of the religion since the 17th century.†Call NumberBX7649.E3 C3Publisher
The Book of Country Living
AuthorWeiss, Jeffrey Osborn, SusanCall NumberS521.5.A2 W44PublisherISBN9780030596148Buildings of Delaware
AuthorMaynard, W. BarksdaleDescriptionThe latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's architectural history from all periods. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented by a glossary and bibliography, the volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansions to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings.Call NumberNA730.D3 M39PublisherISBN9780813927022
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
AuthorMayer, RalphDescriptionCompletely updated, expanded, and reset, this work is the definitive reference for working artists.Call NumberND1500 .M3PublisherISBN9780670136667Carlyle's House The National Trust publication
DescriptionPreserved since 1895, this writerís house in the heart of one of Londonís most famous creative quarters tells the story of Thomas and Jane Carlyle.Call NumberNA2400PublisherChair Seat Weaving for Antique Chairs
AuthorSober, Marion BurrDescriptionDetailed, step-by-step instructions on traditional methods of hand-caning, pre-woven cane webbing, paper or natural rush, and flat reed splint.Call NumberTT199PublisherISBN9780938849001Jewelry in America 1600-1900
AuthorFales, Martha GandyDescriptionA comprehensive, chronologically organized study of jewelry as it was worn by both men and women from Colonial days to the turn of the century in America.Call NumberNK7312 .F35 1995PublisherISBN9781851492237
Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg
AuthorOlmert, Michael ; drawings of buildings by Peter C. Turner ; maps by Louis LuedtkeCall NumberF234.W7 O46 1985PublisherISBN087935111XCorporate Capital: Wilmington in the Twentieth Century
AuthorHoffecker, Carol E.Call NumberJS1545.2 .H63†PublisherISBN087722305XEye for Excellence: Masterworks from Winterthur
AuthorFennimore, Donald L.DescriptionFeatures the best of the museum's collection according to its own curators. Offers a rare opportunity to understand how the curators at Winterthur view the objects in their care.Call NumberNK460.W48 H4545 1994PublisherISBN9780912724263
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
Property from the Collection of The Henry Francis duPont Wintherthur Museum
AuthorSotheby Parke Bernet Inc.DescriptionThe paperback catalog is a list of the property ffrom the Collection of the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Musem that was put on auction in April 1978. In the catalog are listed pieces that were in the Corbit Sharp House in Odessa 1978.Call NumberNK460Publisher
Houses of the Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America and the Way They Lived
AuthorHoward, HughStraus III, RogerDescriptionExamines the everyday lives of the Founding Fathers through an eye-opening tour of forty stately eighteenth-century houses.Call NumberE176 .H866 2007PublisherISBN9781579652753
Colonial Grandeur in Philadelphia. The House and Furniture of General John Cadwalder
AuthorWainwright, Nicholas B.DescriptionHow John Cadwalader's great Philadelphia mansion was decorated and furnished in colonial times.Call NumberF158.37 .W3Publisher
E.I. du Pont, Botaniste: The Beginning of a Tradition
AuthorWilkinson, Norman B.DescriptionPublished for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley FoundationCall NumberSB63.D87 W55PublisherISBN9780813903996Constitution of the State of Delaware as adopted in convention, June 4, 1897
Call NumberKFD401†PublisherJournal 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 .A53aPublisherDelaware History Vol. XXVII, No. 3, 1997
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThis book contains 3 articles: 1."As We Lived tin The Paddock Family and the Great Depression in Wilmington, Delaware"; 2. "Letters from the Front: Edward and Mary Hodgson in World War I--and Postwar Transformations at Home in Delaware"; 3. "AnnElliotCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 58, Number 4November 2019
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionGender equality in conservationBlues of Jan de Bray's Judith and HolofernesResearch, conservation and exhibion of 1980's flourescent painted leather jacketThe case of hydrating hydraNegotiating material value at the National Park ServiceCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherWhat Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in colonial and Federal America
AuthorBaumgarten, LindaDescriptionMines the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collection of clothing, acquired over the last seven decades, initially to accessorize the buildings but eventually to display them as objects of interest in their own right.†Call NumberGT607 .B38 2002PublisherISBN9780300095807
Colonial Williamsburg Celebrates 75 years of Collecting
AuthorTheobald, Mary MileyDescriptionHow the Reverend W.A.R Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. went about restoring Virginia's colonial capital.And how the Williamsburg of today was turned from a sleepy southern town into a city alive with the voices of history.Call NumberF234.W7PublisherISBN9780879352202
Chester County, a Travelers Album
AuthorDi Orio, Eugene L.Call NumberG1200PublisherISBN9780960441402
Underground Railroad Official National Park Handbook
AuthorNational Park ServiceCall NumberE450PublisherISBN0912627646Reminiscences
AuthorJohnston, John WillardDescriptionA two volume book written by the author who wanted to present an interesting unvarnished history of the Delaware Valley. This manuscript is historically important as it provides a wealth of information on local history and genealogy,of the Delaware and HCall NumberF157PublisherSilk Art Embroidery: A Women's History of Ornament & Empowerment
AuthorCardwell, DonnaCall NumberNK9204 .C37 2008PublisherISBN9780764329067The Model Architect: A Series of Original Designs for Cottages, Villas, etc. Vol.1, 2
AuthorSloan, SamuelDescriptionSloan, Samuel. The model architect: A series of original designs for cottages, villas, suburban residencesCall NumberNA7207.S6PublisherISBN9780306707469Original Land Titles in DE, Commonly Known as the Duke of York Record 1646-1679
DescriptionOriginal land titles in Delaware commonly known as the Duke of York record, being an authorized transcript from the official archives of the state of Delaware,Call NumberF167 .D31PublisherISBN806346973Colonial Ironwork in old Philadelphia: The craftsmanship of the early days of the Republic
AuthorWallace, Philip B.DescriptionTribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork features 182 crisp black-and-white photographs and 41 measured drawings.Call NumberNK8212.P4 W3PublisherISBN9780486220796
The Glorious House Stenton Furnishing Stenton: Quaker Grandeur in Philadelphia
AuthorKeim, Laura StutmanCall NumberF158.8.S7
MAPS Finding Our Place In The World
AuthorAkerman, James R.; Karrow, Robert W. Jr. - EditorsDescriptionIntroduces the widest range of maps; maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures; maps made for divergent purposes and depiting a range of environments; and maps that embody the famous, the important, the beautiful, the groundbreaking, or the amusing.Call NumberGA201 .M365PublisherISBN9780226010755
Harriet Tubman, SECRET AGENT How Daring Slaves and Free Slaves Spied For the Union During the Civil War
AuthorAllen, Thomas H. Featuring illustrations by Carla BauerDescriptionA small book which highlights the work of Harriet Tubman and others involved with the Underground Railroad and her work as a secret agent for the Union during the Civil War. Chapters includes key characters involved as well as events that took place.Call NumberE444.T82 A73 2006PublisherISBN9780792278894Delaware 1782 Tax Assessment and Census Lists
AuthorNelson Jr, Ralph D. & Nelson, Catherine B. & Dogherty,Thomas P. & Richards, Mary Fallon & Richards, John C.DescriptionThis book is a complete re- transcription of the original records in the title. The new feature includes: A narrower time- frame, Inclusion of Addititional Lists, Inclusion of Tax assessments, Addition of a State-Wide Alphabetized Listing, Addition of SeCall NumberF161.6 .C39 N429Publisher
