Library Collection
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Painted Dial Clocks
AuthorLoomes, BrianCall NumberNK7495.G7 L665 1994PublisherISBN185149183XHistory Pockets Colonial America
DescriptionThe introduction pocket gives an overview of the settlement of the thirteen original colonies. The other pockets feature a look at the aspects of colonial life in the northern, middle, and southern colonies. Introduction to Colonial America; The First Settlements; The Native Americans; Homes and Villages; Daily life; School; Work; Memorable PeopleCall NumberE162PublisherPeter Pan - The 1911 Classic Edition With Original Illustrations.
AuthorBarrie, J. M.DescriptionA paperback editon The 1911 Classic Edition of Peter Pan. The original title is on the title page with an illustration of the "PETER AND WENDY" by JM BARRIE, ILLUSTRATED by FD BEDFORD. The last pages: 142 - 145 include a QUIZ about the book with an Answer Key.PublisherISBN978-9916-9870-4-9Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens
AuthorPhipps, FrancesDescriptionCasts welcome light into numerous dark corners, clears up many old problems, and banishes more than one hallowed belief about this important room in the colonial home.Call NumberTX653 .P48 1972PublisherISBN9780801514340
Kitchen & Bath Showcase:
AuthorCheever, Ellen, CKD, CBD, AISDCall NumberTX653 .K52 1995PublisherISBN9781883065034Washington in his own words American History Special Collector's Edition
Call NumberE312PublisherTownsend: Yesterday and Today: A Local History Slide Presentation
Call NumberF174
Delaware History Vol. XXXI No.4 2007
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 31, No. 4 has four articles: 1. "Tribute to William H. Williams"; 2. "A House is Not a Home": The Collins Bombing of 1959"; 3. "The Art and Mystery" of Delaware's Apprentice Indentures"; 4. "Bibliography of Delaware History, 2003-2005".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherSomething Blue: Some American Views on Staffordshire
AuthorFennelly, CatherineDescriptionOld Sturbridge Village Booklet seriesCall NumberNK4087.S6 F4PublisherThe Pennsylvania Germans A Celebration of their Arts 1683-1850: An Exhibition Organized by The Philadelphia Museum of Art & The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum
AuthorGarvan, Beatrice B.Hummel, Charles F.Call NumberNK835.P4 P53 1982PublisherISBN9780876330487
Hammond Harwood House (Annapolis, MD)
DescriptionA National Historic Landmark, built in 1774, was the final work of architect William Buckland.A great example of Georgian architecture.Call NumberF176Early Family Home
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDescribes the life of early settlers, including the construction of a home, the clearing of land, folk medicine, candle making, quilting bees, weaving, and wedding partiesCall NumberE40 .K35 1992PublisherISBN9780865050167American Maps and Mapmakers: Commecial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century
AuthorRistow, WalterDescriptionDiscusses the work of such American cartographers as Abel Buell and John Melish and the impact of the rise of lithography, which made possible the low-cost map.Call NumberGA405 .R57 1985PublisherISBN9780814317686
Quaker Roots
Call NumberBX7601American Furniture at Chipstone
AuthorRogue, Oswaldo RodriguezDescriptionTwo hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture.Call NumberNK2405 .R63 1984PublisherISBN9780299097608
Remote Sensing: A Handbook for Archeologists and Cultural Resource Managers
AuthorLyons, Thomas R. and Avery, Thomas EugeneCall NumberCC76.4 .L96Visiting Our Past: America's Historylands
AuthorBennett, Ross EditorCall NumberE178 .V58PublisherISBN9780870440038The FOUNDING FOODIES How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
AuthorDeWitt, DavidDescriptionThis book with information on the influence of our three of our Founder Fathers on American cuisine contains 235 pages of recipes and information that include a section on the location of recommended historic sites and restaurants. The first six chapters deal with the Founder Fathers' influence regarding cuisine and the seventh is entitled, "Recreating the Recipes of the Founding Fathers.Call NumberTX703 .D49 2010PublisherISBN9781402217869Nineteenth Century Applique Quilts
AuthorBlum, Dilys & Lindsey, Jack L.Call NumberNK9112Sharp and Allied Families
AuthorGeorge Valentine Massey IICall NumberCT3200American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works July 2012Vol. 37, No. 4
DescriptionReaching Out and Stretching Far, Albuquerque 2012Call NumberN8554 .A53aThe Oulde King's Roade : including the towns of Richardson Park, Elsmere, Newport, Stanton, Marshallton, Kiamensi, Ogletown, Iron Hill, Cooch's Bridge, Christiana & Glasgow
AuthorSawin, Nancy C.DescriptionA oversized softcover book that includes towns of Elsmere, Newport, Stanton, etc. as well as pictorial works buildings as well as local history.Call NumberF165 .S29 1989PublisherMembership Development: A Guide for Nonprofit Preservation Organizations
AuthorHorsey, Catherine A.Call NumberAMThe Kitchen (Historic Communities Series)
AuthorKalman, BobbieCall NumberTX653Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782 from the French by an English gentleman, who resided in America at that period. With notes by the translator Vol I & II (Translated)
Authorde Castelleux, Francois Jean MarquisDescriptionChastellux, a major general accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America. His journal provides a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people.Call NumberE163 .C56Publisher
Pennsylvania Butter Tools and Processes
AuthorPowell, Elizabeth A.DescriptionClay, Pug Mill, Throwing on the Potters Wheel, Pressed Forms, Turkshead Molds, Finishing, Handles, Covers, Decorating, etc.Call NumberTTPublisherISBN9780910302098Fanny Pierson Crane : Her Receipts 1796
AuthorHatrak, Amy; Mills, Frances; Shull, Elizabeth; Williams, SallyCall NumberTX715 .F195PublisherHistorical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
AuthorEllis, Margaret HolbenDescriptionAddresses issues on paper conservation history, techniques of prints and drawings, the causes and effects of deterioration, and conservation treatments and ethics.Call NumberNE380 .H57 2014PublisherISBN9781606064320America's Arts and Skills by editors of Life Magazine
Call NumberNK805 .L44PublisherAmerican furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century styles
AuthorComstock, HelenDescriptionAmerican Furniture Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century StylesCall NumberNK2406 .C58Publisher
Fun for the Household A Book of Games
AuthorGray, Emma J.DescriptionInscribed in pencil on first page "Horace Hotchkiss Brookside Dr Greenwich Conn."Call NumberE163PublisherISBN9781805475071
