Reference Shelf: A Bibliography of Sources about Northampton History
Publications featuring Historic Northampton's Costume & Textile Collection
Books
Women's Shoes in America: 1795 to 1930
by Nancy Rexford
Kent State University Press, 2000
Letters from an American Utopia:
The Stetson Family and the Northampton Association, 1843-1847
In the essay "The Camel and the Needle: Silk and the Stetson Letters," Marjorie Senechal reconstructs the process of silk production at the Northampton Association drawing in part on nineteenth-century letters from the Stetson Collection.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans & Fashion, 1840-1900
by Joan Severa
Kent State University Press, 1995
Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth
edited by Lynne Zacek Bassett
A publication of the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project
University Press of New England, 2009
Women's Shoes in America: 1795 to 1930
by Nancy Rexford
Kent State University Press, 2000
Letters from an American Utopia:
The Stetson Family and the Northampton Association, 1843-1847
In the essay "The Camel and the Needle: Silk and the Stetson Letters," Marjorie Senechal reconstructs the process of silk production at the Northampton Association drawing in part on nineteenth-century letters from the Stetson Collection.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans & Fashion, 1840-1900
by Joan Severa
Kent State University Press, 1995
Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth
edited by Lynne Zacek Bassett
A publication of the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project
University Press of New England, 2009
Magazine Publications
Woven Bead Chains of the 1830s by Lynne Zacek Bassett
The Magazine Antiques, December 1995
Alba Stramesi Fiorentino in Crafts & Stories from Ellis Island
Piecework Magazine, September/October 1996
The Silk Industry of Florence, Massachusetts by Ann Feitelson & Peter Weis
Piecework Magazine, January/February 1999
The Needlework of First Lady Grace Coolidge by Lynne Zacek Bassett
Piecework Magazine, July/August 1999
Three Gownmakers in Northampton, Massachusetts featured in Gownmaking as a Trade for Women in Eighteenth Century New England by Marla Miller
Dress, a publication of the Costume Society of America, volume 30, 2003
Fashion and Frugality: English Patterned Silks in Connecticut River Valley Women's Dress, 1600-1800 by David E. Lazaro
Dress, a publication of the Costume Society of America, volume 33, 2006
Woven Bead Chains of the 1830s by Lynne Zacek Bassett
The Magazine Antiques, December 1995
Alba Stramesi Fiorentino in Crafts & Stories from Ellis Island
Piecework Magazine, September/October 1996
The Silk Industry of Florence, Massachusetts by Ann Feitelson & Peter Weis
Piecework Magazine, January/February 1999
The Needlework of First Lady Grace Coolidge by Lynne Zacek Bassett
Piecework Magazine, July/August 1999
Three Gownmakers in Northampton, Massachusetts featured in Gownmaking as a Trade for Women in Eighteenth Century New England by Marla Miller
Dress, a publication of the Costume Society of America, volume 30, 2003
Fashion and Frugality: English Patterned Silks in Connecticut River Valley Women's Dress, 1600-1800 by David E. Lazaro
Dress, a publication of the Costume Society of America, volume 33, 2006