Portland, OR. and Los Angeles: Redimade Building Company. 1921. No. 15. A poster 17 x 22.5 inches that unfolds from a pamphlet of four pages (each 11.25 x 8.5 inches with light "after-issue" centerfold) offering information, through photos and text, relating to Redimade sectional houses and garages. "From the Tree.....
Peerless Color Works. No date. Ca. 1920. Pamphlet, color paint swatches, 8 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches unfolding to 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Very light wear and soiling. A 1920s vintage brochure featuring eight paint swatches of Peerless Paint.
Seneca Falls, N.Y. The Goulds Manufacturing Company. No date. Ca. 1924. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 44pp, 11 x 8 inches, stiff paper wrappers, original mailing envelope. Envelope worn and missing inserted letter. Pencil notation dated 1924 to front endpaper, otherwise booklet in very good, clean condition. The booklet (with.....
Chicago. National Plan Service Inc., 1932. Copiously illustrated catalog, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 32 pp., pictorial paper wrappers, featuring black and white photographs and line drawings of summer vacation homes of various sizes. The common denominator appears to be the presence of a "screened porch" on virtually all of.....
Jefferson City, Missouri. No date. Ca. 1939. Booklet, black and white illustrations of homes accompanied by floor plans, unpaginated (8pp plus covers), 12 x 9 1/8 inches, pictorial wrappers. Black and white centrefold picturing over two dozen houses (including the White House) most of which have nothing to do with.....
Clinton, Iowa. 1933. Thin card portfolio of glossy single sheets, 12 x 9 inches, picturing, in black and white, small homes together with floor plans. The plates are numbered 1 through 46, with sheets 34, 36, 37, 38, 41 and 42 not present (interestingly we have received information from a......
Pittsburgh, PA. Heinz 57 Varieties. 1933. Brochure touts the Heinz company's contribution to the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. Replicas of eight kitchens representing "kitchens of many lands," past and present, are featured as the centrefold of the brochure 8 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, unfolding to a......
Chicago. Crane Co., 1939. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 15pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, stiff paper wrappers. Faint soiling to covers and a few interior pages, otherwise booklet in good condition. The pamphlet, illustrated in black and white, describes and pictures fixtures and accessories for bathrooms, fixtures for kitchens.....
Chicago. Ponderosa Pine Woodwork. Copyright 1945. Booklet, black and white photo illustrations throughout, 28pp, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, color pictorial cover wrappers. Light wear to covers, soft bump to upper right corner, pencil notation on single page, mid section loose; otherwise good, clean condition. A profusely illustrated booklet featuring.....
Boise Payette Lumber Company. 1940. Issue No. 3. Twelve page brochure, 10 x 8 inches, pictorial paper wrappers, comprised chiefly of short chatty illustrated articles pertaining to historic homes, rustic homes, home interiors etc. An illustrated centerfold pictures four variants on the floor plan of a two bedroom house, showing.....
New York. Hearst. 09- 1949. September 1949 complete issue of the magazine, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, 180pp, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, crease to cover corners, light soiling to back cover, very good condition. A fascinating glimpse into post-war interior design and architecture. Articles include.....
Lancaster, PA. Armstrong Cork Company. 1948. 20 pp booklet, 7 x 5 inches, in pictorial paper wraps. Four inch triangular water stain from spine to lower margin, most noticeable on back cover. Spotting to front cover. Despite flaws, an interesting and colorful publication. The emphasis of the booklet is on.....
Shahn, Ben (cover illus).
Chicago. United States Gypsum. Late Spring 1949. 14 pp pamphlet, 12 x 8.5 inches, featuring house plans and adverts for US Gypsum products. Light spotting to rear cover, otherwise good clean condition. The pamphlet pictures various new homes together with their floor plans; blueprints of these.....
Chicago. Crane Co., No date. Ca. 1940. Booklet, black and white illustrations, 16pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, pictorial paper wrappers. Very good condition. The booklet, clearly addressed to women, features ground plans for what Crane terms a "humanized, Family Planned Kitchen" emphasizing efficiency. One such plan depicts an arrangement.....
Chicago. Swift and Company. No date. Ca. 1940. H-2 (Revised). 2 full color double-sided landscape plans, 17 x 24 inches, folding as issued to 8 1/2 x 12, with small 7 x 5 1/2 inch booklet and original pictorial envelope. Moderate wear to envelope. Booklet and plans in very good.....
Bay City, Michigan. Aladdin Company. Copyright 1953. 47th annual edition. Booklet, color and black and white illustrations of homes accompanied by floor plans, 64 pp, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, in color pictorial paper wraps. A few short tears to covers; paper loss to spine; fold to rear cover. Overall.....
Peekskill, NY. Kwik-Lite Manufacturing Corporation. Ca. 1960s. BOOKLET, profusely illustrated in black and white, laid in sheet with mail in card, 43 pp, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, color pictorial wrappers. Very good condition: very light soiling to cover, light wear to extremities including light mark from paper clip to.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 02- 1886. Chromolithograph, sheet 10 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches, plus second sheet with floor plans. One inch mended tear into mid right edge of illustration and top edge of floor plan, a few short tears to lower edge, soiled spot to lower.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 12- 1885. Chromolithographs on two sheets each 15 3/4 x 11 inches, Mended short tear to upper edge of each sheet, faint offsetting; otherwise very good condition. Illustration and plan of a particularly impressive dwelling with stone facade to the lower floor, turrets.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 05- 1886. Chromolithograph, two sheets each 10 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Light ink stain along lower margin of upper sheet and upper margin of lower sheet (mainly outside image area), faint offsetting, lower sheet has been printed at an angle with the.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 03- 1886. Two chromolithographs on sheet, 15 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches, centrefold as issued. Mended tears to left and right edge, faint offsetting; otherwise good condition. Image No.1 shows a Front and Side view of the house with floor plans for the.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 05- 1887. Chromolithograph, sheet 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches, presented in a 16 x 20 inch mat ready for framing. Minimal short tears to lower edge, tight right edge: otherwise very good condition. At the top of the sheet is an elaborate.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 09- 1886. Chromolithograph, sheet 16 x 10 1/2 inches. Mended short tear to upper left edge, remains of tissue guard along a portion of the left edge (just outside image area); otherwise very good condition. An elegant sea front dwelling with turret and.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 07- 1887. Chromolithograph, sheet 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. A couple of mended short tears to lower left edge and lower right corner (outside image area), otherwise very good condition. The top of the sheet illustrates a three story Victorian dwelling with.....
Scientific American - Architects and Builders Edition. 05- 1888. Chromolithograph, sheet 10 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Uneven lower edge with a couple of short edge tears (one mended), otherwise very good condition. Elevation (no floor plan) of a two-floor Victorian dwelling with attractive stained glass and woodwork features, issued.....
