A stunning book that features highlights from Mystic Seaport, one of the finest maritime museums in the world The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvelous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. Presented with accessible texts and beautiful reproductions are masterpieces of maritime painting, exquisite photographs of classic yachts and powerboat races, and diverse prints and watercolors. Unique examples of American folk art—yarn paintings, reverse paintings on glass, sailors’ valentines, shadowbox ship models, and ships in bottles—are also explored in detail, along with watercraft, scrimshaw, ship figureheads, and silver yachting trophies.
 Essays written by distinguished experts describe the individual forms of expression, discuss the artists and craftsmen, and offer commentary on the ways in which America’s maritime history is interwoven with its economic development and cultural history. Elegantly designed and lavishly produced, America and the Sea offers intriguing new evidence of the indisputable relevance of maritime history to American life and art.

America and the Sea: Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport

Arts & Photography

Finamore, Daniel

Lash, Stephen S.

History & Criticism

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This book is your child's passport to the ultimate children's party. Every detail of the book, and the party itself, has been designed with a child's favorite things in mind. You'll find ""sandboxes everywhere, and fields to play ball in, and places to hide in, and places to crawl in, and places to lie in, and places to fall in, and one that I'm sure you will feel very tall in."" The party in Kalamazoo reveals itself through easy, playful rhymes and bright, whimsical illustrations that delight children and parents alike. You'll meet ""puppies and ponies and marionettes. That's the kind of excitement that no one forgets!"" Best of all, you and your child can attend the party in Kalamazoo again and again - on rainy days, at bedtime, and whenever else you like - for as long as this book remains a cherished part of your child's collection.

I Went to the Party in Kalamazoo (Two Kids Productions)

Children's Books

Holidays & Celebrations

The book brings the extraordinary events of the crucial Franco-American Alliance in the American Revolution to life through the lives and passions of flesh-and-blood participants in a riveting narrative enhanced with rich illustrations, maps, and a guide for historic travelers.

Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route and the Franco-American Alliance (Values Through History)

History

Passmore, Donna

Smulcer, Jan

Americas

This brief, accurate booklet about the Salem witchcraft hysteria includes a section on the Peabody Essex Museum's collection of documents, paintings, and other artifacts associated with the trials. It's a handy reference guide and concise overview of one of America's darkest chapters.

The Salem Witchcraft Trials (Peabody Essex Museum)

Richardson, Katherine W.

This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

Shanties From The Seven Seas (Mystic Seaport)

Music

Voyages

German, Andrew

In its nearly two hundred years of existence, New York's first collecting institution has never had a guide to introduce the museum-going public to the encyclopedic range of its renowned buildings of art, decortive objects, and artifacts. Now, in conjunction with the opening of the Henry Luce III Center for the Center for the Study of American Culture and in the spirit of accessibility that returns these collections to public view, The New-York Historical Society has compiled a book that not only highlights the different facets of its museum collection, but also illuminates the people who made, used, inspired, and donated the objects left to us for our interpretation today. Organized according to object type as housed in the Luce Center, each of the featured items tells a unique story. With a lively design and over one hundred color images, this book samples the full spectrum of the Historical Society's art and artifacts, along with related manuscripts, prints, and photographs in the society's Library. Together the entries suggest the immense interpretive resource that these materials reppresent for those curious to learn more about the American past.

Perspectives on the Collections of the New York Historical Society: The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture

Nancy Eklund Later

This book recounts the history of the Society's remarkable achievements in collection building. 126p. Illustrated in color and B/W. Measures 9 inches (22.86 cm) square.

NY Historical Soc: Bicentennial Celebrat (New-York Historical Society)

Sullivan, Larry E.

Survey of the entire collection of photographs, etchings etc. in the New York Historical Society. Full of references to the whole huge N.Y. Historical collections. Ends about the era of the 1930's. Extraordinary examples of New York City arial and seashore, every borough. great deal of textual comments

Guide to Print, Photograph, Architecture (New-York Historical Society)

Zinkham, Helena

Triptych

Literature & Fiction

Worth, Douglas

Poetry

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