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Lowell Through Time

Lowell Through Time is a visual exploration of how changes in architecture, industry, commerce, demographics and entertainment shape the experience of this riverfront city.

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Abandoned Connecticut: The Twilight of American Industry

In Abandoned Connecticut, photographer J. R. Washburn gives the reader a first-hand account of his time exploring these modern ruins.

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Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920 - published by America Through Time

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Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920

What a wonderful gift Margo Miller has given us in Château Higginson, a vivid and absorbing account of one man's efforts to construct a building that would create “a new way for Bostonians—and Americans—to live.”

$25.00

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Monroe Through Time II

Like its predecessor, Monroe Through Time II is presented by the Monroe Historical Society (est. 1959) and portrays the Connecticut community with images that contrast the contemporary setting with the past.

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A Brookline Boyhood in the 1930s and 40s

In A Brookline Boyhood Jim Harnedy takes up a new challenge in his writing career and instead of producing a local history he narrates a lively tale of growing up in the 1930s and 40s in Brookline, a suburb to the southeast of Boston.

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Christmas Traditions in Boston - published by America Through Time

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Christmas Traditions in Boston

In this book Christmas Traditions in Boston, Anthony Sammarco outlines the celebration (or lack thereof) of Christmas in the first two centuries after the city was settled in 1630. By the mid 19th century a German immigrant named Charles Follen introduced the Christmas tree to Boston, and shortly thereafter Louis Prang introduced his colorful Christmas cards, the first in Boston.

$22.00

Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time

There was a time when you could walk through Connecticut and find schoolhouses scattered across the landscape every few miles. Now in the 21st century, you can still see old Connecticut schoolhouses and imagine what they would have been like in the old times.

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A Guide to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hingham Volume I

Enjoy these glimpses of Hingham then and now to see for yourself that, although there are many new buildings and altered neighborhoods, many scenes from yesterday are still familiar.

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Abington Through Time

In Abington Through Time, join historians Don Cann and John Galluzzo, authors of Abington in Vintage Postcards, for a walk up and down the main streets and back roads to see what remains, and what has changed in Abington over the past century and a half.

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Portsmouth Through Time

Let Portsmouth Through Time take you on a journey through this old New England seaport city. Explore several surrounding communities and learn their roles in making seacoast New Hampshire, and Maine across the harbor, the captivating region it is today. In this book, a concise, well-researched blend of history is richly illustrated with 184 images, past and present, contrasting 92 select sites from the coastal cities, towns, and villages that have evolved here.

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A Chronological History of Canaan, Vermont

A Chronological History of Canaan describes the evolution of this town on the 45th parallel in northeastern Vermont.

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Goat Island and the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station: Guncotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes

Weak maritime nations have always sought to augment the strength of their coastal defenses and navies by the use of “diabolical” contrivances for destroying an invader’s ships. The history of the adoption of the torpedo as a recognized implement of warfare is not unlike that ...

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Gardens of Stone: The Cemeteries of New York City from Colonial Times to the Present

Gardens of Stone takes you on a walk through these memorial parks, guiding you through works of art cast in stone, from small solitary monuments to some of the country's most grand mausoleums.

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This charming and nostalgic book looks back to an age where everyone in New Hampshire went to their local Diner for a meal or a shake, using some rarely published images and color photographs.

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Memories from the Meadowbrook

From big bands to dinner-theater to rock 'n' roll - this is the story of the iconic Frank Dailey’s Meadowbrook.

$19.00

New England Covered Bridges Through Time

Covered bridges are important symbols of Americana. They still grace the New England landscape, but many have disappeared, and the remaining examples have changed since the 1920s when tourists first became interested in them. This book shows how covered bridges have evolved since becoming popular attractions.

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Preserving Bristol: Restoring, Reviving and Remembering

In this book, author Richard V. Simpson regales the reader with compelling stories of the lives and times of Bristol's colourful inhabitants, their estates, and their adventures during the Revolution and privateering during the War of 1812.

$28.00

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Provincetown Through Time

Provincetown Through Time is a comparison view through the times of one of the most interesting "towns" in America.

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Burlington Through Time

Settled and farmed by men from Woburn as early as the 1660s, established as a Second Precinct or Parish in 1730 and host to John Hancock and Samuel Adams on April 18-19 1775, the area and later town of Burlington was truly, ‘part of a greater chronicle’.

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New Jersey's Colonial Architecture: Told in 100 Buildings

New Jersey has a rich architectural heritage, that is often ignored in general books on Colonial American architecture, drawing on Swedish, Dutch, English Quakers, other English, and Scotish building traditions. The book tells the story of New Jersey's colonial architecture in 100 color photographs of the best houses, churches, mills, and taverns that were built between 1636 and 1783.

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Fort Ruckman Through Time

Jutting out into Boston Harbor is the Nahant peninsula, the smallest township in Massachusetts. Despite its size, it was selected to house the most powerful seacoast weaponry ever conceived by military engineers, capable of destroying enemy warcraft far at sea, and the most advanced electronic devices employed in modern warfare to detect and locate enemy aircraft, surface ships, and submarines.

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Quabbin Reservoir Through Time

In an ironic twist, urbanization and development in the greater Boston area created several expansive wilderness areas in central Massachusetts during the twentieth century. When the Quabbin Reservoir was built during the 1930s as the primary water supply for eastern Massachusetts, four towns and other villages in the Swift River Valley were abandoned and flooded, displacing thousands of residents.

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Plymouth Through Time

Plymouth is known world-wide because of the Pilgrim story and its considerable significance for the history of the United States. The town evolved from a coastal fishing, farming and trading center to become a factory town, attracting immigrants who followed the Pilgrims in a search for a better life, and has grown three-fold since 1950 to be a commuting and commercial community that hosts millions of visitors annually.

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Living With Newer Old Houses

A look at how houses built between 1870 and 1950 have changed over the years. The impact of technology is obviously a key factor but the book also looks at the methods employed and materials used in their construction and finish.

$24.00

United States Mail Boat: Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

United States Mail Boat invites you on a leisurely cruise around the lake, its many islands and surrounding mountains, exploring the history and folklore of this spectacular region, from the days of the Native Americans to the early settlers, and the establishment of Winnipesaukee’s unique and enchanting floating post office. It is the perfect companion for a trip to this wonderful lake, whether from the comfort of your armchair, or from the deck of the Sophie C herself.

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Lowell Through Time

Abandoned Connecticut: The Twilight of American Industry

Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920

Monroe Through Time II

A Brookline Boyhood in the 1930s and 40s

Christmas Traditions in Boston

Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time

A Guide to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hingham Volume I

Abington Through Time

Portsmouth Through Time

A Chronological History of Canaan, Vermont

Goat Island and the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station: Guncotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes

Gardens of Stone: The Cemeteries of New York City from Colonial Times to the Present

Tales of Manhattan Through Time

Provincetown II Through Time

Skaneateles Through Time

Bristol Through Time

Concord Through Time

Monroe Through Time

Hingham Through Time

Charlton Through Time

Royalton, Middleport & Hartland Through Time

Rockland Through Time

Hartford Through Time

Bellows Falls, Vermont Through Time & Surrounding Towns, Villages and Hamlets

Classic Diners of New Hampshire

Memories from the Meadowbrook

New England Covered Bridges Through Time

Preserving Bristol: Restoring, Reviving and Remembering

Provincetown Through Time

Burlington Through Time

New Jersey's Colonial Architecture: Told in 100 Buildings

Fort Ruckman Through Time

Quabbin Reservoir Through Time

Plymouth Through Time

Living With Newer Old Houses

United States Mail Boat: Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

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