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Who lived here? A baker's dozen of historic New England houses and their occupants. / Text by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain.
LIBRA - Rare F3 .H853 Capps Dickinson copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic buildings.
- New England--Biography.
- New England.
- New England--Historic houses, etc.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 139 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Historic New England houses and their occupants
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bramhall House : [Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc.], [1952]
- Contents:
- Adamses at Quincy
- Louisa May Alcott: "Duty's Faithful Child"
- Bishop Berkeley at Whitehall
- Anne Bradstreet: Tenth Muse
- John Brown of Providence
- Emily Dickinson: Enigma
- Christopher Gore of Gore Place
- Hawthorne, Emerson, and the Old Manse
- Sarah Orme Jewett, of the Pointed Firs Country
- Longfellow and the Craigie House
- Lowell's Elmwood
- Maria Mitchell: Sky-Sweeper
- The lifetime ride of Paul Revere
- Notes:
- "This edition published by Bramhall House, a division of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., by arrangement with Little, Brown & Company (A)."
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1003776
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