Description: This is a desktop calendar containing quotations, definitions, and other ephemera related to the sea, as well as spaces for each date/day of the 1998 calendar year.
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.
Description: Contains more than 70 color reproductions of Stobart's paintings as well as halftones and drawings. Subjects include clipper ships, whalers, and steamboats; text gives background information and relates American maritime history.
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.
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]
Description: Gives guidelines for completing forms to list properties in National Register. Author was executive director of the Camden, NJ, Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Stevens, John Calvin II and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Publisher:
Greater Portland Landmarks
Date:
1990
Description: A survey of architect Stevens's four decades of design taken from his photographs in albums, a change from the earlier line drawings. The primary photographer was Thomas Ellison. An introductory biographical essay was written by grandson John Calvin Stevens II.
Description: The author is an architectural historian and has gathered information about the architects and builders of hotels and cottages, along with their clients, beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to today. This work focuses on the work of William R. Emerson.
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.
Description: A brief biography of one of the individuals (as opposed to families) who came to live in Islesford, Maine. He was a teacher, hotel keeper, store keeper, postmaster, grange master, and churchman. Occasional Paper #5
Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the National Park Service
Date:
1999
Description: Series of articles by various people in chapters about Guidelines and References, History and Technology, Planning and Specifications, and Roofing Materials
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.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: Gives information about the more than 400 families living in Maine in 1790, according to that year's census. At that time the District of Maine had just five counties and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Members of the various Indian tribes were not inclded in this census.
Description: This is a "food history" book that incorporates a social history of preparing and eating food; it includes recipes, many from old cookbooks.
Description: A compilation of all records of the Probate Courts of Maine: wills, administrations, estate divisions, estate accounts, guardianships, and other acts for 1687-1775.
Description: A compilation of all records of the Probate Courts of Maine: wills, administrations, estate divisions, estate accounts, guardianships, and other acts for 1775-1800.