1923
Box 10
GUSN-362564
Plan book advertising "Presto-Up" cottages, a type of prefabricated buildings manufactured and sold by the Harris Brothers Company. Plan book includes description of the company, construction details, and product specifications before showcasing individual designs for prefabricated buildings. Each design comes with floor plans, the design number, an illustration of the completed structure, the price of the plans, the overall square footage, and descriptions of unique features of the structure. Published by Harris Brother Company, based in Chicago, Illinois.
advertising
prefabrication
business (commercial function)
cottages
houses
bungalows
schoolhouses
churches (buildings)
specifications
illustrations (layout features)
printed ephemera
trade catalogs
1 plan book, 24 pages : illustrations, plans ; 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches
EP005
Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection
2019
EP005.718
Gift of Richard Cheek, 2019
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Harris Brothers Company (Publisher)
printed ephemera
trade catalogs
Harris Brothers Company
Advertisement
Prefabricated houses
Cottage
House
Architecture
Item
Box 10
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