Library Collection
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Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600-1800
AuthorLange, Amanda E.DescriptionMeticulous research on tin-glazed earthenware - commonly called Delft. Introductory Essays Collecting Delftware at Historic Deerfield The History and Manufacture of Delftware Delftware in the Connecticut River Valley Alcoholic Drinking Vessels Tea Drinking Wares and Salvers Dining Wares Decorative Plates and Dishes Flower Containers Apothecary Jars, Storage Vessels, and Toilet Wares Lighting Devices Tiles FakesCall NumberNK4295.5.E8 H57 2001PublisherISBN9780966676914
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Americana at Auction: A Pictorial Record of More than 700 American Antiques Sold by 20 Auction Houses
AuthorPennington, Samuel; Voss, Thomas M.; Solis Cohen, LitaCall NumberNK805 .P46 1979PublisherISBN525475710Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland
AuthorForeman, Henry ChandleeDescription†Major study of plantation houses constructed in Maryland 1634-1800. Includes 320 photographs and 145 illustrations of plans, sketches and details.Call NumberNA7235.M3 F6 1982Publisher
Winterthur Seminar Museum Operation
Call NumberNK460PublisherLooking at Prints, Drawings and Watercolours A Guide to Technical Terms
AuthorGoldman, PaulDescriptionAims to provide accurate definitions of terms routinely used about prints, drawings and watercolors.Call NumberN33 .G65 1988PublisherISBN9780892361489Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the Inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders, intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements Vol I, II, III
AuthorWatson, John FanningDescriptionThis 163 year old book, originally bound in brown embossed paper over a hard cardboard is an excellent resource for information on mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia. It contains black and white reproductions of famous painting of historical events in the founding of the city. It has an extensive section of appendices on miscellaneous topics that could be of interest to reader of the city's history or a local historian.Call NumberF158.3 .W595Publisher
History of the United States
AuthorDiBacco, Thomas V. Mason, Lorna C. Appy, Christian G.DescriptionEmphasizes the broad themes and the richness of heritage. Integrates multi cultural perspectives and georgraphic, constitutional, religious, and economic themes.Call NumberE178.1 .D54 1995PublisherISBN039568885XKitchen Utensils: names, origins, and definitions through the ages
AuthorBrooks, Phillips V.Call NumberTX656 .B786 2004PublisherISBN9781403966193Restoring American Gardens: An encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants 1640 1940
AuthorAdams, Denise W.DescriptionAn encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants 1640-1940Call NumberSB453 .A32PublisherISBN9780881926194Early Building and Historic Artifacts in Tidewater Maryland: The Eastern Shore
AuthorForeman, Henry ChandleeDescriptionThe Medieval traditions of building in Britain were carried over to Maryland settlements in the 17th Century and are still visible today. A compilation of history, genealogy and architecture.Call NumberF176ISBN9780938420651
Start With a House Finish With A Collection
AuthorMiller, Leslie A Kirtley, AlexandraDescriptionThe story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown passion for collecting. Featuring exquisite examples of Hollingsworth and Morris family furniture, Weber boxes, Pennsylvania clocks and Kirk-Stieff silver, as well as American paintings by the Peale family, Edward Hicks, Edward Redfield and Horace Pippin, this museum-calibre collection reveals a pride in the early American sensibility.Call NumberNK1PublisherISBN9781857599190Vasari on Technique
AuthorVasari, GiorgioDescription†being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects.Call NumberN7420 .V3PublisherQuilted Together Women, Quilts, and Communities
AuthorIce, Joyce and Norris, Linda (editors)Call NumberNK9101.D36 Q55 1989PublisherISBN9780962290305The Universal Penman Engraved by George Bickham
AuthorBickham, George Hofer, Philip EssayistCall NumberZ43 .B58 1743aPublisherISBN0486206165Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700 1850
AuthorSwan, Susan BarrowsCall NumberTT715 .S9PublisherISBN003015121XKent County DE Land Records Vol 4 1735-1743
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 1996PublisherISBN1585490148Wash and Gouache A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor
AuthorCohn, Marjorie B.DescriptionIllustrates some of the more important technical aspects of the materials and methods of the watercolor artistCall NumberND2430 .C63PublisherISBN9780916724061A History of Union Lodge #5 A.F. & A.M. For the 250th Anniversary of Its Original Charter June 2015
AuthorLaing, Gary L.Call NumberF174Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper Basic Procedures for Paper Preservation
AuthorClapp, Anne F.DescriptionDesigned to aid the conservation technician, private and institutional, in caring for works of art on paper.Call NumberTS1109 .C55PublisherISBN9780941130318Sharp and Allied Families
AuthorGeorge Valentine Massey IICall NumberCT3200St. Anne's Church In Apoquinimy, Delaware: a history of one of Delaware's oldest churches from its founding in 1704
AuthorColburn, Dorothy RowlettDescriptionThis book is a history of one of Delaware's oldest churches from its founding in 1704. It includes notes for each chapter, 17 indices.Call NumberBX5980.M522 C65PublisherISBN9780615469393The 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 2000PublisherISBN9780912724522American Kids in History Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes
AuthorKing, David C.DescriptionColonial Days is filled with interesting historical information and fun facts about growing up in days gone by. Discover how different--and how similar--life was for American kids in history.Call NumberE162PublisherISBN9780471161684That the Past Shall LiveÖ: the history program of the National Park Service
Call NumberE160 .U64PublisherDelaware History Vol. XXVI No.2 1994
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionThree articles: 1. "Achiever at the Archives: The deValinger Era in Dover, 130-1972"; 2. "Slugger or Slacker? Shoeless Joe Jackson and Baseball in Wilmington, 1918"; 3. "Thomas McKean's "Biographical Sketches".Call NumberF161 .D37PublisherArchival Products News Volume 15 No.3 2008
DescriptionFire and Ice: A Soot Removal Technique Using Dry Ice BlastingCall NumberZ700PublisherInterpretative Design and the Dance of Experience
AuthorVan Matre, SteveCall NumberGV181.18 .V36 2008PublisherISBN9780917011238The American Arts Library Pennsylvania Dutch Art
AuthorAdams, RuthDescriptionThe American Arts LibraryCall NumberNK835.P4 A6PublisherHistoric Houses of the Hudson Valley
AuthorEberlein, Harold D. and Hubbard, Courtlandt Van DykeCall NumberF127.H8 E18PublisherArt i Facts Summer 2016
AuthorHeuer, Amy, EditorDescriptionResearching Ungilded Daguerreotype Treatment.The Fellowship Year at CCAHA.Call NumberAM101The Antiques Treasury of Furniture and Other Decorative Arts in Winterthur, Williamsburg, Sturbridge, Ford Museum, Cooperstown, Deerfield, Shelburnes
AuthorWinchester, Alice Editor and the staff of Antiques magazine.DescriptionCovers Winterthur, Williamsburg, Sturbridge, Ford Museum, Cooperstown, Deefrield and ShelburneCall NumberNK806 .A57PublisherISBN9780525056133
Delaware Archives, Military and Naval, Vol II
DescriptionAn archival book of Delaware Military and Naval information. Volume 2 of a 3 volume setCall NumberF161Early American Herb Recipes
AuthorBrown, Alice CookeCall NumberTX718.H4 B76 2001PublisherISBN9780486418759The Impressionist Exploring Impressionism from the 19th Century to Present Day Premier Issue
AuthorJensen, Amy (editor)Call NumberND192King County and Its Emerald City: Seattle
AuthorWarren, James R.Call NumberF899.S457 W3698 1997PublisherISBN9780965475426The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
AuthorPlumb, Robert C.DescriptionAn account of 5 women who changed Civil War American.Call NumberE628 .P58 2020
Book of Patterns and Instructions for American Needlework`
AuthorWomen's Day (editors)Call NumberTT753Growing Up Black in New Castle County
AuthorNutter, Jeanne D. (compiled by)DescriptionChronicling the period from 1900 to the 1950s, Growing Up Black in New Castle County, Delaware brings together the touching stories of African Americans in northern Delaware who grew up during an era of both hardship and happiness. In a time when racial segregation was law and the nation faced such challenges as war and economic depression, African-American children in New Castle County and around the country were busy exploring the world around them-playing with friends, celebrating holidays, attending school, and learning the important life lessons that would carry them through the rest of the twentieth century.Call NumberE740PublisherISBN9780738506227Delaware History Vol. XXVIII, No.4, 1999-2000
AuthorHistorical Society of DelawareDescriptionVolume 28 XXVIII has four articles: 1. "Gordon Keppel, Ranger Surgeon"; 2. "Allen McLane, James Peale, and Henry bryan Hall: An Artistic Mystery Solved". 3. "Beginnings of the Catholic Church of Wilmington, Delaware"; 4. "Bibliography of Delaware HisCall NumberF161 .D37PublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 56, Number 2May 2017
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionThe Importance of Movement and Operation as Preventive Conservation for Heritage MachineryRehousing a 'Working Collection'Teaching Sustainable Collection CareImproving Reliability in Collection Condition SurveysInvestigation of Residual ContaminationCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisher
