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  • Subject starts with "New England -- Social life and customs"

New England character and characters as seen by contemporaries / compiled and edited by Catherine Fennelly

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The New England village scene, 1800 / by Catherine Fennelly

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Wonders of the invisible world, 1600-1900 / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes

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New England's creatures : 1400-1900 / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes

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Painting and portrait making in the American Northeast / Editor: Peter Benes, Associate editor: Jane Montague Benes

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Early American probate inventories / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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House and home / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes

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New England/New France, 1600-1850 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editor, Ross W. Beales, Jr.

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Medicine and healing / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes

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Itinerancy in New England and New York / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Families and children / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editor, Ross W. Beales, Jr.

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The bay and the river : 1600-1900 / editor Peter Benes ; associate editor Jane Montague Benes

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Foodways in the northeast / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago ... / by George Lyman Kittredge

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New England music : the public sphere, 1600-1900 / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Contents: Eighteenth-century ballroom : a mirror of social change / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- American death of Harlequin : musical pantomimes in Boston before 1815 / Peter Benes --Thomas Walter and the society for promoting regular singing in the…

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New England collectors and collections / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; Peter Benes, editor ; Jane Montague Benes, associate editor

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Contents: Introduction. Section 1. Forming early collecting institutions (early nineteenth century). "An equal taste for antiquities" : Reverend William Bentley and the American Antiquarian Society / Thomas Knoles -- "A few monstrous great snakes" :…

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New England celebrates: spectacle, commemoration, and festivity / editor: Peter Benes

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Contents: Night processings: celebrating the gunpowder plot in England and New England / Peter Benes -- "The Floral architect": rules and designs for processions / Paige W. Roberts -- The 1823 "centennial" celebration of New Hampshire's settlement /…

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In our own words : New England diaries, 1600 to the present / editor, Peter Benes

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Contents: v.1. Diary diversity, coming of age; v.2. Neighborhoods, war, travel, and history

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Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present / edited by Peter Benes

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Contents: Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Purveyor to the peddlers : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and…

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Our own snug fireside : images of the New England home, 1760-1860 / Jane C. Nylander

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New England and the Caribbean / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

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Contents: Section I. Extractive and provisioning trades -- The Card family and the mahogany trade : from New England to the Bay of Honduras / Jennifer L. Anderson -- New England whaling in the Caribbean / Michael P. Dyer -- Section II. Plantations…

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Everyday dress of rural America, 1783-1800 : with instructions and patterns / Merideth Wright ; illustrated by Nancy Rexford

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The not-quite Puritans : some genial follies and peculiar frailties of our revered New England ancestors /c by Henry W. Lawrence

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BHS Hall Lecture: "Privatism versus Communalism in the 18th Century Towns of Northern New England"

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Bethel Historical Society Hall Lecture: "Privatism versus Communalism in the 18th Century Towns of Northern New England," presented by Charles E. Clark on June 10, 1996.

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