Historic New England Book Series
Historic New England launched its book series in 2006 as a means of introducing its collections to a wider audience. Drawing on the rich resources of the Library and Archives and the Museum Collections, these thoroughly researched, beautifully designed, and heavily illustrated publications enrich our knowledge of New England and the wider world.
The Camera's Coast was the inaugural volume in the series, followed by America's Kitchens. The third book about lighthouses in Maine will be published in 2011. These publications are available in our online shop.
The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
W. H. Bunting. Deluxe paperback. 144 pages, more than 250 illustrations.
Winner of the 2007 Association for State and Local History Leadership Award of Merit
Historic photographs are paired with a rich assortment of old postcards, advertisements, and posters. This panorama of New England coastal activity is engagingly described by Bunting, a maritime historian who brings old photographs to life with small stories - sometimes humorous, sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic, but always captivating.
America's Kitchens
Nancy Carlisle, Melinda Talbot Nasardinov, with Jennifer Pustz. Deluxe paperback. 208 pages, 190 illustrations.
Lavishly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and ephemera from Historic New England's collections, among others, this work describes what it was like to live and work in kitchens that had none of the conveniences we now take for granted. Kitchens featured are from house museums, detached kitchens on southern plantations, Spanish colonial kitchens of the Southwest, elaborate nineteenth-century kitchens in the Midwest, and middle-class open-plan homes of 1950s suburbia.
