Designs for 60 small homes from $2,000 to $10,000: showing how to buy, build, and finance a small home, by Samuel Glaser, Coward-McCann, New York, N.Y., 1939

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1939

Location Note

EP005, HGO-005, Box 1

GUSN

GUSN-355287

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Description

Each design has an illustration, description, floor plan, and construction outline of building materials. The back pages have planning data for living activities which include dining, culinary, storage, and recreational activities reproduced from the Architectural Record. Text on the title page verso reads, "Photograph on front cover by Roland W. Bailey, Boston. Planned and supervised by The Abbey Press, Gordon-Taylor Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
architects
houses
floor plans
illustrations (layout features)
photographs
building materials
pattern books
printed ephemera

Physical Descrption

1 plan book : illustrations, plans

Collection Code

EP005

Collection Name

Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

Date of Acquisition

2019

Reference Code

EP005.058

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Cheek, 2019.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
New York City (New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Glaser, Samuel (Author)
Coward-McCann Publishers (Publisher)

Material Type

pattern books
printed ephemera

Other People

Bailey, Roland W.
Glaser, Samuel

Other Organizations

Architectural record
Abbey Press
Gordon-Taylor, Inc.
Coward-McCann Publishers

Subjects

Advertisement
House
Architectural photography
Architects and builders
Architecture

Description Level

Item

Location Note

EP005, HGO-005, Box 1

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