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The Universal Penman Engraved by George Bickham
AuthorBickham, George Hofer, Philip EssayistCall NumberZ43 .B58 1743aPublisherISBN0486206165Lift The Spirit
AuthorDillon, Clarissa F.DescriptionEnglish colonists drank various fermented beverages that varied depeding upon what was available inthe area.Call NumberTX705PublisherThe Book of Skills and Tools (Family Handyman)
DescriptionA Step-by-step guide to do-it-yourself techniquesA homeowner's encyclopedia of tools, hardware, and materialsCall NumberTJ1195 .PublisherISBN9780895774699City Tavern Baking & Dessert Cookbook
AuthorStaib, Walter with Lindner, JenniferCall NumberTX763 .S72PublisherISBN9780762415540Handbook for Winterthur Interpreters: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Winterthur Collection (Volume I)
AuthorWard, Gerald W.R. (Editor) Projector Director: Pauline Eversmann Projector Coordinator: Rosemary Troy KrillCall NumberNK460Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers 7th edition
AuthorBaille, G. H.; Clutton, C. and Ilbert, C.A.Call NumberTS540Houses 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
The Naked Quaker
AuthorRapaport, DianeDescriptionTrue crimes and controversies from the Courts of Colonial New EnglandCall NumberHV6793.N295 R36 2007PublisherISBN9781933212579Amish Quilts of Lancaster County
AuthorHerr, Patricia T.Call NumberNK9112 .H467 2004PublisherISBN9780764320170Eye 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
To Be a Slave
AuthorLester, JuliusCall NumberE441Delaware History Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 2 -3, 1998-1999
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThis volume covers the personal life, early years and the artist's works. The title is: "Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach: Artist of Time, Place, and Season".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 60, Issue 2-3 2021
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionSpecial Issue on Contemporary Art ConservationCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherA Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
AuthorMalaro, Marie C.Call NumberKF4305 .M35PublisherISBN9780874746563The 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
Letters of Benjamin Rush Volume II: 1793 1813
AuthorRush, Benjamin Butterfield, L. H. (editor)Call NumberR154.R9 A4Colonial and Early American Fashions
AuthorTierney, TomDescriptionThis entertaining and educational coloring book provides a fascinating glimpse of clothing styles worn by Colonial Americans ó from the early years of colonization to the onset of the American Revolution. Carefully researched and meticulously rendered by illustrator Tom Tierney, 45 excellent, ready-to-color illustrations present an exciting panorama of wearing apparel spanning nearly 150 years of fashion history.Call NumberGT607PublisherISBN9780486403649The School of Manners or Rules for Childrens Behaviour: at church, at home, at table, in company, in discourse, at school, abroad, and among boys, with some other short and mixt precepts
DescriptionReprint. Originally published: London : Printed for Tho. Cockrill at the Three Legs and Bible against Grocers-Hall in the Poultrey, 1701Call NumberBJ1877.C5 G37PublisherISBN9780905209364Hunters and Fishermen of Prehistoric Delaware Reprint from DE Conservationist Number 3 Vol. XII
AuthorThomas, Ronald A.Call NumberF161Narratives of Early PA, West NJ, and DE 1630-1707
AuthorMyers, Albert CookDescriptionNarratives of Early PA, West NJ, and DE 1630-1707Call NumberF106 .M98PublisherBruton Parish Church A Brief History With a Map and Key List of Tombstones in the Church and Yard
Call NumberP234.W7 B7PublisherInventory of the County Archives of Delaware #1 New Castle County
DescriptionThe inventory in this book is a brief history of the county, a sketch of governmental organization supplemented by a chart, abbreviated essays for the county offices, entries sections and a subject index.Call NumberCD3150 .H5PublisherISBN155613990XNew Castle County DE Land Records 1715-1728
AuthorBryant, CarolDescriptionNew Castle County DE Land Records 1715-1728Call NumberF172.N5 B794 1998PublisherISBN158549481XThe Davenport House Savannah, GA
Call NumberLC-J7-GA- 1178Patterns of Fashion 1 Englishwomen's dresses & their construction c.1660-1860
AuthorKalman, BobbieDescriptionIncludes detailed patterns and drawings taken from the original specimens.Call NumberGTPublisherISBN033336063Artist's Techniques and Materials (A Guide to Imagery)
AuthorFuga, AntonellaDescriptionLatest volume in the popular Guide to Imagery series discusses the materials and processes used in eight media: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, glass, and metalwork. Within each of these categories, Antonella Fuga examines the range of materials and techniques that have developed over the centuries.Call NumberND1470PublisherISBN9780892368600The Philadelphia Chair, 1685-1785
AuthorKindig, Joseph K. IIICall NumberNK2715 .K48
History of Chrisfield and Surrounding Areas on Maryland's Eastern Shore
AuthorWilson, Woodrow T.DescriptionCrisfield, Maryland, a small city on the southernmost part of Maryland's Eastern Shore formerly was known as Somers Cove and called the seafood capital of the world. Using original primary and secondary sources, this book offers history, folklore, and photographs of areas, businesses and people of interest to Crisfield as well as Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Marion Station areas.Call NumberF187PublisherISBN9798879739985
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 2020PublisherISBN9780778773214A STORIED PAST : Collections of Historic Odessa
AuthorZimmerman, Philip D.DescriptionThis well illustrated book includes more than 200 photographs of Historic Odessa and its history as well as its extraordinary collection of decorative arts. It is well documented and provides a delightful tour of this small historic hamlet in the state of Delaware and its historic houses: Corbit-Sharp House and Wilson-Warner House.Call NumberNK838.O34 Z56 2023PublisherISBN9781538182703
Delaware History Vol. XXXII No. 2 2008
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 32, No. 2 contains two articles: 1."The Compact of 1905 and its role in the United States Supreme Court cases: New Jersey v. Delaware, I,II, III"; 2. "Delaware and the Key to the Pacific: Thomas F. Bayard, George H. Bates, and the AcquisitionCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherWinterthur: The foremost Museum of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
AuthorCantor, Jay E.DescriptionTraces the history of the Delaware mansion now used as a museum and describes its invaluable collection.Call NumberNK460PublisherISBN9780810917859
Kent County DE Land Records Vol 5 1742-1749
AuthorBrewer, Mary MarshallDescriptionConsists primarily of deeds, but these early land records sometimes served as a "catch-all" for recording events including powers of attorney, patents, articles of agreement, acknowledgment of receipt of estate portion, deeds of gift to family members, cCall NumberF172.K3 B74 1996PublisherISBN1585490148The 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 .J66PublisherQuaker Roots
Call NumberBX7601Weaving A Handbook of the Fiber Arts
AuthorShirley E. HeldDescriptionWeaving is a basic introduction to the fiber arts. It is intended for those who have no experience in fiber and wish to explore this fascinating medium to a developed level of expression.Call NumberTT848 .H43 1978PublisherISBN30226910Clues to America's Past
AuthorNational Geographic SocietyCall NumberE159.5 .N37 1976PublisherISBN9780870441929
