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The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to her World
AuthorSullivan, Margaret C.DescriptionProper life skills from regency EnglandCall NumberPR4036 .S86†PublisherISBN9781594745058Vanity and Elegance: An Exhibition of the Dressing Table and Tall Chest in America, 1685-1785
AuthorLevy, Bernard Levy, S. DeanDescriptionThe exhibition explored how the dressing table (often called a lowboy) and the tall chest of drawers (highboy) developed as matching or complementary furniture sets in colonial America. Tracing a century of craftsmanship from the late 17th century to the end of the 18th century, the exhibit documented regional style variations, intricate woodcarvings, and the rising emphasis on personal grooming and refined domestic interiorsCall NumberNK2400Publisher
Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Patterns
AuthorWilens, Patricia, editorCall NumberTT835 .E52 2001PublisherISBN9780848724740Hale Byrnes Boyce House: The Story Behind A Delaware Jewel
AuthorWilson, W. EmersonDescriptionA beautifully preserved 1750s brick home in Stanton, Delaware, famous for hosting General George Washington and his officers for a critical war council in 1777.Call NumberF174Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, N.Y.
AuthorHall, Edward Hagaman Hall, L.H.D.DescriptionIntroduction: The relation between the picturesque and the historic -- Nappeckamack, the trap-fishing place -- The younger Adriaen Van Der Donck -- The Philipse family -- The rise of a great merchant -- The making of a manor -- The manor system -- The second lord of the manor -- The third lord of the manor -- Courtship and marriage of Mary Philipse -- The attainder of Frederick Philipse -- The heart of the neutral ground -- The dissolution of the manor -- The preservation of the Manor Hall -- The Manor Hall itself -- The manor in picture and literatureCall NumberF129.Y5 H17Delaware 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 .D37PublisherThe Naomi Wood Collection Woodford Mansion Fairmount Park Philadelphia, PA
AuthorSinkler, John P. B.Call NumberNK2003 .P5Art Across Time : Volume II: The Fourteenth Century to the Present 2nd edition
AuthorAdams, Laurie SchneiderDescription2nd ed.Call NumberN5300 .A3PublisherISBN9780072450064A Calendar of Ridgely Family Letters 1742 1899 Vol. I, Vol. III
AuthorDelaware. Public Archives CommissionCall NumberCD3159.5.R5 A5The Chesapeake Bay Country
AuthorSwepson, EarleDescriptionA comprehensive index of names and locations, and, maps of Chesapeake Bay and St. Maryís City add to the value of this work.Call NumberF187.C5 E2Publisher
Delaware Genealogical Research Guide
DescriptionInformation on the types of records availabe in Delaware, where they are kept and where they can be found.Call NumberF163.D349PublisherHistorical 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 2014PublisherISBN9781606064320The Sewell Biggs Collection of American Arts Vol I, II Decorative Arts 1st Ed
AuthorZimmerman, Philip D.DescriptionVol I includes detailed object analysis and full-color illustrations of Americanóand specifically Delawareófurniture, silver, textiles, and ceramics. Vol II focuses on the museum's visual arts holdings an highlights regional artists and historical works.Call NumberNK1PublisherISBN9781893287044
Virginia Catalog A list of measured drawings, photographs, and written documentation in the survey
AuthorHistoric American Buildings SurveyDescription†a list of measured drawings, photographs, and written documentation in the Survey. Compiled by the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, the Historic American Buildings Survey.Call NumberNA730.V8 H5†PublisherISBN9780813905181The Needleworker's Dictionary
AuthorClabburn, PamelaDescriptionEssentially a book of extended definitions, it combines the "what it is" and the "how it is done" for a huge range of information both historical and contemporary. What is more, it is unique, being the only modern work to explain the meaning of the innumerable terms and techniques in use over the centuries for all kinds of sewing, stitchery, and embroidery.Call NumberTT750 .C35PublisherThe Diligent Needle Instrument of Profit, Pleasure and Ornament
AuthorEaton, Linda, CuratorCall NumberTT753Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Unveiling of the Tea Monument in Greenwich, NJ "The Tea Burning Town" Oct. 4, 1958
Call NumberE201Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan Sales Catalog Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times
AuthorAnderson GalleriesDescriptionThe 1931 sales catalog "Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan: Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times" documents a significant auction held by the American Art Association / Anderson Galleries in New York on January 8ñ10. It features premier 17thñ19th century American decorative arts, including pieces now recognized as masterpieces now in the Yale University Art Gallery.Call NumberNK1Publisher
The 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
The Art of & Character of Nutcrackers 1st edition
AuthorWagner, ArleneDescription1st American editionCall NumberNK8551.3 .W34PublisherISBN9781933112084Safeguarding Your Collection in Travel
AuthorKeck, Caroline K.DescriptionA discription and illustration of the basic principles governing security for historic and artistic objects in motion.Call NumberN8585 .K43Hammond 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 NumberF176Our Own Snug Fireside Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860
AuthorNylander, Jane C.DescriptionFact-filled, copiously illustrated, revealing survey of Yankee life and households in an earlier timeCall NumberF8 .N95 1993PublisherISBN9780394549848
Living With Antiques: A Treasury of Private Homes in America
AuthorWinchester, Alice Editor and the staff of Antiques magazine.DescriptionShows what has been done by some of Americaís most discriminating collectors to bring beauty and also a sense of stability and continuity into their homes.Call NumberNK2220 .A5Publisher
Pierced By Mother: Over 100 Years of Quiltmaking Traditions
AuthorLasansky, JeannetteCall NumberNK9112 .L34 1987PublisherISBN9780917127021Journal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 59, Issue 2 2020
Authordel Hoyo-Melendez, Julio Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionComputational Watermark EnhancementStone paper matrix technical studyPhases of Edward Steichen's Moonrise PrintsNon-contact method for analyzing coatings on PhotographsCall NumberN8554 .A53aPublisherEarly American Portraiture
AuthorSherman, Frederic FairchildDescriptionContains 14 essays, most on individual artists. 76 portraits are illustrated.Call NumberND1311 .S5Publisher
The 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
The Lost Histories of Perth Amboy Destruction and Reconstruction St. Peter's Episcopal Church
AuthorMiddlesex County Cultural and Heritage CommissionDescriptionThe story of St. Peter'sóthe oldest Episcopal parish in New Jersey, dating back to the late 17th centuryóis marked by resilience through both devastating destructions and extensive reconstructions.Call NumberE171The 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 .J66PublisherPaint, 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 S683ISBN9780912724690Architectural Elements: The Technological Revolution
AuthorWaite, Diana S. (editor)Description†galvanized iron roof plates and corrugated sheets; cast iron facades, columns, door and window caps, sills and lintels; galvanized cornices; marbleized slate mantels; plumbing and heating supplies and fixtures; staircases, balconies, newels and balusters in wood and iron; cut and etched glass transoms and sidelights.†Call NumberTH2055 .W34PublisherISBN9780878610426Child Life in Colonial Times
AuthorEarle, Alice MorseCall NumberE162 .E13 2009PublisherISBN9780486471914Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry
AuthorTunis, EdwinDescriptionDescribes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops,Call NumberT21 .T8PublisherJournal of the American Institute for ConservationVolume 53, Number 1February 2014
AuthorDerrick, Michele, Editor-in-ChiefDescriptionNatural Yellow Chalk in Traditonal Old Master Drawings.Multimodality Imaging of Daguerreotypes and Development of a Registration Program for Image Evaluation.Comparison of a Solid-State Luminaire to Tungsten-halogen Lamps for Displaying Museum Objects.Call NumberN8554 .A53a
