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One hundred and fifty years of collecting by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1824-1974
AuthorWainwright, Nicholas B.Call NumberF146 .P578PublisherISBN9780910732093
The Unsinkable Molly Brown House Denver, Colorado
Call NumberF771Visitors Guide to Historic Sites Tri State Coalition of Historic Places
Call NumberF158PublisherMasterpieces of Furniture In Photographs and Measured Drawings
AuthorSalomonsky, Verna CookCall NumberNK2260 .S53PublisherISBN9780486213811All About Antiquing and Restoring Furniture 1982 edition
AuthorBerger, RobertDescription1982 editionCall NumberTT199 .B47PublisherISBN051738552XThe Instruction for Johan Printz, Gov. of New Sweden, "the first constitution or supreme law of the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware;"
AuthorJohnson, AmandusDescriptionThis a well preserved blue leather covered book that was first translated by Israel Acrelius with two translations since. It covers the most interesting period of New Sweden under the Governship of Printz. It includes and index and noted that leather bouCall NumberF167 .J66PublisherBounty 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 2000PublisherISBN9780848719555Art i Facts Summer 2013
AuthorMagaziner, Katherine, EditorDescriptionThe Complexities of Treating Contemporary Art.Behind-the-Scenes at the Philadelphia Stewardship Resource Center.Call NumberAM101Bookbinding 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 2005PublisherISBN9780486440392Preserving Textiles A Guide for the Nonspecialist
AuthorMailand, Harold F.Alig, Dorothy StitesCall NumberNK8804.5 .M3424 1999PublisherISBN9780936260716Colonial Delaware, a History
AuthorMunroe, John A.DescriptionHistory of Colonial Delaware 1600-1775 and the Revolution 1775-1783.Call NumberF167 .M84 2003PublisherISBN527187119English Artists' s' paper : Renaissance to Regency
AuthorKrill, JohnDescriptionAn overview of the types of paper available to artists from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.Call NumberNC847 .K75PublisherISBN158456055XColonial Spices & Herbs
AuthorMitchell, Patricia B.Call NumberTX406 .M57PublisherISBN9780925117861Delaware Discoveries Girlhood Embroidery 1750 1850
AuthorAllen, Gloria Seaman Steinhoff, Cynthia ShankCall NumberNK9112 .A44 2019PublisherISBN9780692154083Colonial Families of Delaware Vol 1
AuthorWright, F. EdwardDescriptionThis is the first volume of a planned series of genealogies of the first families of Delaware.Call NumberF163 .W74 1999PublisherNew Castle County DE Land Records 1715-1728
AuthorBryant, CarolDescriptionNew Castle County DE Land Records 1715-1728Call NumberF172.N5 B794 1998PublisherISBN158549481XGames from long ago
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionLooks at the many different games children played in the nineteenth century, and describes the rules and play in detailCall NumberGV1200 .K35 1995PublisherISBN9780865055216American History October 2021 Vol. 56, NO. 4
DescriptionThis issue of American History contains feature articles on the following: Rock'n Roll; John Jay, Abolitionist; Yuma, AZ -geography; Abraham's Prescott's bass intstrumentl; Orville Wright and aerial toys. It also has nine articles listed under each different departments.PublisherBayou Bend: The Interiors and the Gardens
AuthorWarren, David B.Call NumberN6505 .W3PublisherISBN9780890900000
A One-Room School
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDescribes how building a school was a priority once an early community became established. Students of all ages shared one teacher and the same fourCall NumberLC5146.5 .K35 2020PublisherISBN9780778773214Caesar Rodney Patriot: Delaware's hero for all times and all seasons
AuthorFrank, William P.Call NumberE207.R6 F73Pook & Pook Inc. Sales Catalog
AuthorPook & PookDescriptionCatalogs from Pook & Pook auctionsCall NumberNK1Publisher
Kirk silver in United States museums
AuthorS. Kirk & SonDescriptionBegins with two pages of Kirk Assayer and Maker's Marks, followed by alphabetical list of form and within each form, the detailed object, its Kirk catalog number (where relevant), and the museum holding the object, and concludes with two pages on the U.S.S. Maryland Silver Service. 6 objects are illustrated along with two illustrations of objects in the U.S.S. Maryland Silver Service.Call NumberNK7112PublisherA Topical History of Delaware (
Call NumberF174English 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
Moravian Architecture and Town Planning Bethlehem, PA and other 18th Century American Settlements
AuthorMurtagh, William J.Call NumberNA735.B4 M8PublisherISBN9780812216370Underground Railroad Official National Park Handbook
AuthorNational Park ServiceCall NumberE450PublisherISBN0912627646English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford
AuthorRay, AnthonyCall NumberNK3740 .W35 1968bPublisherISBN8780571085972
Philadelphia Reviewed: The Printmakers Record 1750 1850 An exhibition of prints from the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: September 28 through October 28, 1960, Winterthur, Delaware
AuthorHummel, Charles F. & Betts, M. ElinorCall NumberNE215.U7 P53The Bible in Iron or The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans
AuthorMercer, Dr. Henry C.DescriptionDocuments and studies colonial-era cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. Originally published in 1914Call NumberNK8212 .M47PublisherISBN9780910302012
Dictionary of Ornament
AuthorLewis, Philippa & Darley, GillianDescriptionSurvey of ornament, pattern and motifs in the applied arts and architecture. The coverage is mainly of European and North American buildings and objects from the Renaissance to the present day, with reference, where relevant, to ancient and oriental sources and precedents.Call NumberNK1165 .L48PublisherISBN394509315George Mason's Home: Its Social, Economic, and Cultural History, and Its Restoration : Gunston Hall Plantation
AuthorBates, William SheldonDescriptionLocated in Mason Neck, Virginia, Gunston Hall was the 5,500-acre plantation home of Founding Father George Mason. The estate offers deep insights into 18th-century plantation life, detailing its social hierarchies, economic foundations, and cultural significance, alongside ongoing historical restorationsCall NumberF234
