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Old Time Gardens, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.

Artistic Tiles, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of 89 unnumbered leaves of photographs and illustrations of embossed art tiles, some displayed as surrounding a mantle and some displayed on their own. Details for the tiles are given including size of tiles and assigned numbers, presumably corresponding to their manufacturing number. Included is a drawing of "a modern bathroom," as well as "profiles, of a few of our base, cap, cove, bead, and door trim tiles."

Ceramic Mosaic Tile : Mounted On Paper, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of seventy-one color plates which depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.

How To Know The Ferns : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, Special Collections

Landscape Architecture

xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips

Prudential Committee; Jan 8, 1898 To Nov 19, 1906, Delaware Avenue Baptist Church

Church Record Books

Minutes of Prudential Committee Meetings

Art Work Of Richmond

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Publication detailing the history of Richmond, Virginia, accompanied by black and white photographs of city locations. Published in nine parts.

Richmond, Virginia: Photo-Gravures

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Includes images of monuments, capitol buildings, city halls, church buildings, streetscapes, hotels libraries, portraits, museums, depots, college buildings, bank buildings, domestic architecture, hotels, monuments, parks, prisons, seminaries, rivers, and cemeteries.

Letter From Griffin & Randall To James W. Allison, 1894 October 30, Griffin & Randall

Building VCU’s President's House

Letter from Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison defining specifications and values for crystal plate, polished plate, and plate glass.

Sights And Scenes Of The World: A Photographic Portfolio, Edward L. Raymond

College Archives Selected Rare Books

"Rare and elaborate collection of the most beautiful and noted examples of palaces, castles, cathedrals, paintings, lakes, and picturesque scenery on the face of the globe, interspersed with instantaneous photographs of street scenes in the world's great cities designed to take the place of an extended tour around the world. Description of the scenes have been prepared by an extensive corps of distinguished tourists, the whole produced under the personal supervision of the eminent traveler, Edward L. Raymond."

Art Out-Of-Doors, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselear), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 399 pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399). Lowthorpe Collection Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has an illustration of two stylized trees at crossed angles. A ring circles the cross point of the trees and an open pair of shears and an open compass intertwine the ring.

H. Maria Wright (Cornerstone Laying 1893), Taylor University

Buildings and Grounds of Taylor University

The program for the 1893 H. Maria Wright cornerstone laying.

How To Know The Wild Flowers : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Wild Flowers, Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1892 -- Vol. 14 No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Chicago Illustrated: Martin's World's Fair Album-Atlas And Family Souvenir, J. F. Martin

College Archives Selected Rare Books

This edition features artistic half-tone illustrations of the buildings and grounds from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It includes historical reviews of the states and nations participating in the Fair with maps. Additionally, this edition contains information about previous World's Fairs, Christopher Columbus, Native Americans, and the city of Chicago.

Landscape Gardening, Samuel Parsons, Alice C. Smith, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxii, 329 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Both copies Lowthorpe Collection. Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has a decorative floral motif stamped in gold within a rectangular box, to lower center of the board. Below the title and author are small floral motifs stamped in gold. Floral motifs are stamped in gold on the spine, and a vertical floral border is stamped in gold (a few inches in from the spine) on the front and back cover boards. Binding design by Alice C. …

Church Clerk Records; April 1,1889 To Dec 31,1901, Delaware Avenue Baptist Church

Church Record Books

Associate lists, membership lists, statistics, standing resolutions, meeting notes,

Baist Atlas Of Richmond, Va 1889, G. Wm. (George William) Baist

Baist Atlas Indexes

Compiled and published by G. Wm. Baist topographical engineer 906 Walnut St. Philadelphia. 1889. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1889 by G. Wm. Baist, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1887 -- Vol. 09, No. 04, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1887), J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Photographs and color illustrations of tiles. This 1887 catalogue is incomplete. Compared with a 1990 reproduction of an intact 1887 catalogue, VCU Libraries’ copy lacks the following: six of 51 plates of unglazed designs (1-4, 12, and 51), the front and back covers, a title page, a reference key, a price list, and at least three pages of advertisements. Of particular note, however, are four lithographed plates (7-10) labeled “Moorish Designs,” which are not present in other Low catalogues.

Plastic Sketches Of J.G. And J.F. Low, J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

This is a special series of 47 unglazed tiles modeled by Arthur Osborne. It was published in 1882 as a small, inexpensive booklet and, later, in 1886 as a deluxe edition with a satin cover. The digitized version is of an incomplete deluxe edition of 27 of the plates. Arthur Osborne’s signature, the letter “A” inside a circle, is evident in the bottom right corner of each modeled tile.Photographs of reproduction tiles made after the original plastic sketches of Arthur Osborne. Includes: 1. Eureka -- 3. Monks going to Mass -- 7. An Elizabethan lady -- 8. A courtier of …

Chronological Register Of Additions; 1887-1954, Delaware Avenue Baptist Church

Church Record Books

Chronological Register of Additions-Regular, Fellowship and Corporate

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1884), J. G. And J.F. Low

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Text includes: Chronology of Low's Tiles; Reference Key; Price List of Low's Art Tiles; Plates I-XXX, and Trade advertisements (36 p.). This catalog includes two photographic plates of fireplaces and 28 plates of unglazed designs, a historical chronology, a reference key for the plates depicted, a price list of Low’s art tiles, and 36 pages of advertisements. The VCU Libraries’ copy also is inscribed, "Compliments of J.G. & J.F. Low." This digitized copy is a combination of two copies held by VCU Libraries in order to create the most complete copy possible. Pages 2, 3 and 39-75 are from the …

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Richmond City Business Notices Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Index to the Richmond City Business Notices section of the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va., by F.W. Beers, published in 1876.

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va., F.W. (Frederick W.) Beers

Beers Atlas Indexes

In addition to maps of Richmond, the atlas contains views of St. James Hotel, Richmond; Richmond Stove Company; St. Claire Hotel, Richmond; Healing Springs, Virginia; Wallawhatoola Springs, Virginia; Old Sweet Springs, West Virginia; and American Hotel, Richmond.

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va. With Business Notices Index And Street Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va. with Business Notices Index and Street Index.

Illustrated Atlas Of The City Of Richmond, Va.: Street Index

Beers Atlas Indexes

Street index to the Illustrated Atlas of the City of Richmond, Va., by F.W. Beers, published in 1876.

Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Photograph Album, Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat

Photograph Album

Photograph album includes interior views of the McLellan House, street scenes from Portland, Maine and portraits of Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat, her husband Lorenzo de Medici Sweat, her father John Mussey, Esq. and the family's dogs. Photographs date from the 1870s - 1890s.

Miller's New York As It Is, James Miller

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: Miller's New York As It Is, or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn and Adjacent Places

Architect's Specifications For Main Building, Wofford College, Edward C. Jones

College Books

Specifications of the materials and works necessary for the erection and completion of the proposed college building, called the Wofford College, located in Spartanburg, S.C., according to the plans, elevations, and sections, herewith furnished and drawn by Edward C. Jones, architect, Charleston, S. C., 1851.

Copy held in the Main Building records, Wofford College archives.

Account Of Services Performed And Money Due Ignatius Goulding, 1783 And 1788, Worcester, Massachusetts., Worcester County, Ignatius Goulding

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Debit account detailing money due Ignatius Goulding by Worcester County for services performed and expenses incurred.