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Books from the Ward M. Canaday Center Rare Book Collection

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Marcellus Lumber Company. Better Homes at Lower Cost: A Collection of Modern Homes, Standardized as to Dimensions. Washington, D.C.: Standard Homes Company, 1928. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Glass Paints, Varnishes and Brushes: Their History, Manufacture, and Use. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 1923. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Practical Suggestions for the Interesting Use of Glass and Paint in Your Home. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1938. [Find it at UT Libraries]

Queen Kitchen Cabinet advertisement (outside the exhibit case)

Overview of exhibits on the top shelf

Southern Pine, house design
and floor plan: S-P-3049

Southern Pine, house design
and floor plan: S-P-3019

Various catalogs and a Lincoln logs set. On loan from the Wood County Historical Center.

Two catalogs by the Southern Pine Association: Modern Homes and Southern Pine Homes

A Bennett Homes catalog and order form

Overview of exhibits on the second shelf

House Design number 321, with floor plan. Source: Better Homes catalog

Our New Book of Summer Homes by Perry J. Buell

House designs and floor plans for The Ridgewood and The Suburban. Source: Build Better Homes, pp. 18-19.

Home Kraft Homes catalog

Illustration from Pittsburgh Glass, p. 103

Overview of exhibits on the third shelf

Marcellus Lumber Company. Better Homes at Lower Cost: A Collection of Modern Homes, Standardized as to Dimensions. (Washington, D.C.: Standard Homes Company, 1928.)

Two catalogs: Harris Homes and Coles Construction Co.

Overview of exhibits on the bottom shelf

Plasco Ready-Mixed Paint (Color Chart). Source: Pittsburgh Plate Glass, p. 43.

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Glass Paints, Varnishes and Brushes: Their History, Manufacture, and Use. (Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 1923).

House design and floor plan. for the Fulton. Source: Marcellus Lumber Company. Better Homes at Lower Cost: A Collection of Modern Homes, Standardized as to Dimensions.

House plans