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16907The Tracy Log Book: 1855, A Month in Summer, With original sketches and drawings by Frederic Edwin Church
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Church, Frederic Edwin
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Tracy, Charles
  • Mazlish, Anne
  • Acadia Publishing Co.
  • 1997
12896Landscapes & Gardens for Historic Buildings
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Gardens
  • Places, Landscape
  • Favretti, Rudy J.
  • AltaMira Press.
  • 1997
Description:
Tells how to create historic gardens and landscapes that reflect specific periods, e.g., colonial, Victorian as well as how and where to research these gardens. Suggested plantings that are historically accurate are given as are guidelines for maintaining the restored landscape.
12921Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Howe, Barbara J., et al
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1997
Description:
How and why to explore an house's history using the setting, written records, oral and visual sources, and the home itself as resources. Also discusses the American dream of owning a home, construction techniques and materials, and more.
12940Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Blumenson, John J.-G.
  • Altamira Press
  • 1995
Description:
Covers styles with minimal text and black and white photographs. Styles include: Spanish Colonial, Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial Revival, New England Colonial, Southern Colonial. French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Roman Classicism, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian Gothic, Italian Villa, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque, Octagon, Chateau, Second Empire Easter Stick, Western Stick, Eastlake, Shingle, Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Beaux-Arts Clasicism, New-Classicism, Bungalow, Prairie, International, Art Deco, Art Moderne [show more]
17126Building an American Identity: pattern book homes and communities 1870-1900
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, Houses
  • Smeins, Linda E.
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1999
17245Exhibit Labeling
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Exhibitions
  • Serrell, Beverly
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1996
17247Place To Remember: Using History to Build Community
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Archibald, Robert R.
  • AltaMira Press
  • 1999
17192Images of America: When Bar Harbor Was Eden.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Turner, Loretta M.
  • Arcadia Publishing
  • 1995
17193When Bar Harbor Was Eden
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, History
  • Turner, Loretta M.
  • Arcadia Publishing
  • 1995
17252Images of America: Revisiting Seal Harbor and Acadia National Park.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Seal Harbor
  • Vandenbergh, Lydia and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
  • Arcadia Publishing
  • 1997.
13718A Souvenir of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, W.H. Sherman
  • Bar Harbor Historical Society
  • 1996
Description:
Souvenir Booklet of Bar Harbor - Reproduction of 1893 booklet. Benefit of the Bar Harbor Historical Society
17246Going Public
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Fund raising
  • Robinson, Cynthia
  • Bay State Historical League
  • 1999
16557300 Years of Housekeeping Collectibles
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Home economics
  • Franklin, Linda Campbell
  • Books Americana
  • 1992
12942Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Furniture
  • Other, New England
  • Benes, Peter, ed.
  • Boston Univ.
  • [1998]
Description:
The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1998, a collection of articles on subjects such as "Repairs versus Deception on Essex County Cupboards," "Cabinetmaking Practices...", and about such people as Capt. Abraham Knowlton, William Lloyd, Amzi Chapin; and places such as Worcester County, Mass.; Sterling, Mass.
17218Anecdotage
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, McGiffert, Arthur Cushman
  • McGiffert, Arthur Cushman Jr.
  • by author
  • 1992
Description:
Autobiography of Arthur Cushman McGiffert c.1890s-1990s
17254Early Buildings of Mid-Coast Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Other, History
  • Other, Maine
  • Fossel, Leslie T.
  • by the author
  • 1994.
12576Identifying Antique Silver
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Silverware
  • Darbyshire, Lydia
  • Chartwell Books
  • 1994
Description:
Guide to identify silver; illustrates and describes 120 pieces of silver, divided by types.
12578Sewing Tools and Trinkets
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Handicraft
  • Other, Sewing
  • Other, Textiles
  • Thompson, Helen Lester
  • Collector Books
  • 1997
12842Collector’s Encyclopedia of Pattern Glass
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Glassware
  • McCain, Mollie Helen
  • Collector Books
  • 1998
Description:
A guide to identifying early American pressed glass patterns, grouped according to "molded characteristics" such as circles, diamonds, flowers.
17222Kitchen Antiques 1790-1940
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Other, Cookery
  • Other, Kitchens
  • McNerney, Kathryn
  • Collector Books
  • 1991
17115A One-Room School
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Pub. Co.
  • 1994
12966Early Settler Activity Guide
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Stenson, Elizabeth
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • 1992
Description:
This is a guide for teachers and others for use with classes and small groups. It covers making a time line, costumes, use of field trips, and other activities.
17116A One-Room School
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History
  • Other, Schools
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • 1994
17119Early Pleasures and Pastimes
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Games
  • Other, Home Economics
  • Recreation
  • Kalman, Bobbie
  • Crabtree Publishing
  • 1992
12841Kovel’s Dictionary of Marks: Pottery & Porcelain 1650 - 1850
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Antiques
  • Structures, Factory, Pottery
  • Kovel, Ralph & Terry
  • Crown Publishers
  • 1995
Description:
An identification guide to American, English, and European porcelain arranged by factory marks according to their shapes, e.g., letters or words or by shapes such as animals, circles, etc.