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What 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
The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide
AuthorRypkema, Donovan D.Call NumberE159 .R96PublisherISBN9780891333883The Campbell Museum Collection Camden, NJ
Call NumberNK460.C3 A53PublisherColonial Home
AuthorKalman, Bobbie Crossingham, JohnDescriptionDescribes the homes, customs, and habits of seventeenth and eighteenth century North American settlersCall NumberE162 .K19897 2001PublisherISBN9780865054394Delaware History Vol. XXXIII No. 4 2012-2013
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 33, No.4 has four articles: 1. "I have now no fear of death." Thomas Morgan's Trial, Confession, and Execution Wilmington, Delaware, 1839"; 2. The Blackbird Creek Marsh Company"; 3. "Another Look at Frank Zebley's Churches of Delaware Part: NCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherWestminster Abbey 22th edition
AuthorBeeson, Trevor, Canon of WestminsterCall NumberDA687.W5Delaware History
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionIssues: 1950, 1952, 1955-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1977, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 2000-2002 Vol V-XVII, XIX-XXXCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherDelaware History Vol. XXVIII, Index 1997-1998
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionA thin pamphlet with a Table of Contents and a List of Illustrations followed by an Index from pages 351-355.Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherThe Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection
AuthorLandrey, Gregory J., Duffy, KateCarlson, Janice, Price, Lois OlcottPouliot, Bruno P., Little, Margaret A.Eaton, Linda, Norris, Debra HessKrill, John, Fiske, Betty Bockrath, Mark F., Podmaniczky, Michael S. Peterson. Mary C.DescriptionAddresses questions and scenarios relative to preserving and caring for personal collections providing guidelines and techniques on how to properly care for your treasures.Call NumberN5220.H494 W56 2000PublisherISBN9780912724522Arts of the United States A Pictorial Survey
AuthorPierson, William Jr.and Davidson, Martha (editors)Call NumberN6505 .P55PublisherThe Annual Delaware Antiques Show 2023
DescriptionThe handbook of the 2023 Delaware Antiques Show entilted: "Best of Americana", November 10- 12, 2023 from 11:00am--5:00pm. Special note should be made of "Lecture and Book Signing" at 2:00pm on Sunday, November 12. Presenter : Philip D. Zimmerman, "A Storied Past: Collections of Historic Odessa".Call NumberNK805 .D45aPublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationFall/Winter 2010Volume 49, Number 2
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionUse and Identification of Tikumu (Celmisia Species, Asteraceae) in artivacts of New Zealand Origin.Natural Black Chalk in Traditional Old Master Drawings.Condition Problems Related to Zinc Oxide Underlayers: Examination of Selected Abstract ExpressioniCall NumberN8554 .A53aDelaware Clocks
AuthorZimmerman, Philip D.DescriptionFirst intensive examination in over a hundred years of the tall case and bracket clocks made in Delaware from 1741 to 1815, the Golden Age of American clock manufacture.Call NumberNK7492 .Z56 2006PublisherISBN9781893287068
Early Furniture Made in New Jersey 1690 1870 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Description†Exhibition, October 10, 1958-January 11, 1959, the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.Call NumberNK2435.N5 N48PublisherCare and Repair of Antiques Refinishing
AuthorOrmsbee, Thomas H.DescriptionA comprehensive guide for antique collectors and enthusiasts. The book provides valuable insights into the art of repairing and restoring antiques to their former glory. It covers a wide range of topics including the different types of antiques, their history, and the materials used in their construction.Call NumberNK28PublisherISBN9781258220402Preserving Historic America
Call NumberE159 .U528The Seasonal Hearth The Woman at Home in Early America
AuthorHechtlinger, Adelaide Gillette, Mrs. F. L. Geiger, Margaret IllustratorDescriptionUsing the seasons and four charming paintins as the natural divisions in time and activities, this book depicts the home life of the early American woman from 1600 on.Call NumberTX23 .H4 1986PublisherISBN087951258X
Paint, Pattern & People: furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725 1850
AuthorCooper, Wendy and Minardi, LisaDescriptionIssued in connection with an exhibition held in 2011 at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DelawareCall NumberNK2435.P42 S683ISBN9780912724690Historical 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
Philadelphians and the China Trade 1784 1844
AuthorLee, Jean GordonCall NumberN7343.5 .L43 1984PublisherISBN087633060XThe Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader
AuthorReik, Cynthia EditorDescriptionSelections of prose and poetry fact and fiction form the "The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe" Vols 1-16: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1896. All letters, unless otherwise credited, are in the collections of the Stowe-Day Library and have been minimally edited. All images are from the photograph collection of the Stowe-Day Library.Call NumberPS241PublisherISBN917482239
The Colonial Cook
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionDiscusses the foods, methods, equipment, and places used by cooks in colonial AmericaCall NumberTX715 .K127496 2002PublisherISBN9780778707943The Magazine Antiques Vol. 1 January-June 1922
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The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750-1900
AuthorHuber, Gregory D.DescriptionBarns in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One of the earliest-settled areas in North AmericaCall NumberNA8230 .H78 2017PublisherISBN9780764353192
A Book of Days in American History
AuthorShapiro, LarryCall NumberE174.5 .S53 1987PublisherISBN9780684188942Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopedia
AuthorGettens, Rutherford J.Stout, George L.DescriptionBrief encyclopedia of the materials and processes of painting.Call NumberND1500 .G4 1966PublisherA History of Lace 3rd ed.
AuthorPallister, Mrs. BuryCall NumberNK9404Huguenot Refugees in the Settling of Colonial America
AuthorBielenstein, Gabrielle Maupin Gannon, Peter StevenDescriptionHuguenot Refugees in the Settling of Colonial AmericaCall NumberE184.H9 H57 1985Metalwork in Early America: copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection
AuthorFennimore, Donald L.DescriptionExplores the importance of these Copper and its alloys - brass, bronze, and paktong for early Americans, using the extensive collections at Winterthur.Call NumberNK8112 .H46 1996PublisherISBN9780912724379
Delaware Archives, Military and Naval, Vol II
DescriptionAn archival book of Delaware Military and Naval information. Volume 2 of a 3 volume setCall NumberF161Whatever 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 NumberGTPublisherCanalling Along the DE and Hudson
AuthorGilchrist, AnnDescriptionHistory of the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Most of the text was taken from the author's earlier work Footsteps Across Cement.Call NumberHE396Publisher
