Historic New England

Practical homes keyed to the times, J.G. Deering & Son, Biddeford, Maine

The catalog provides examples of and floor plans for mostly ranch-style prefabricated houses offered by the company. Each home has an accompanying short description of interesting and unique features it has.

Date: 1955

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335862

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.198

Metal Spanish tile and shingles, catalog no. 72, 2nd ed., Edwards Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

The catalog presents various kinds of Spanish tile and shingles offered by the company. These are accompanied by images and descriptions illustrating how the shingles and tiles look on a finished building

Date: 1926

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335864

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.012.040

Practical small homes, 3rd ed., published by Brown-Blodgett Company, 1745 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota

The catalog features illustrations and descriptions of and floor plans for house designs offered by the company. Each is accompanied by a description of the materials that would be needed to build each home.

Date: 1936

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335867

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.199

Pine homes, California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, California

The booklet explains the many ways that white pine and sugar pine wood can be used to build various parts of homes.

Date: 1925

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335870

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.019

Suggestions for summer homes and camps, Creo-Dipt Company, Inc., North Tonawanda, New York

Each sheet has a photograph with a description of the Creo-Dipt products used. Text on the information sheet inside reads "A break wall for heat waves."

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335878

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.012.041

Materials lists for the larch, the Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, the lodgepole pine, the Idaho white pine, the white fir, the Engelmann spruce, the inland red cedar, sugar pine, the incense cedar, location unknown

Materials are listed for constructing cabins using various types of lumber.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335879

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.020

Designing data for reinforced concrete, North Western Expanded Metal Co.

Booklet explaining how to inegrate metal produced by the company into concrete and the benefits of doing so. Includes many explanitory illustrations and charts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335881

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.002.020

Do-it-yourself 2-car garage from National Plan Service, Inc., design no. P-2010, Elmhurst, Illinois

The plans are for a colonial design garage measuring 24' x 24.'

Date: 1977

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335882

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.004.006

Do-it-yourself 2-car garage from National Plan Service, Inc., design no. P-2017, Elmhurst, Illinois

The plans are for a garage measuring 22' x 22.'

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335883

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.004.007

Do-it-yourself 1 1/2-car garage from National Plan Service, Inc., design no. P-2015, Elmhurst, Illinois

The plans are for a garage measuring 14' x 22' with storage and workbench space.

Date: 1978

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335884

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.004.008

Catalog no. 47 of Koll's patent lock-joint wood columns, manufactured by Hartmann-Sanders Company, Chicago, New York

The catalog advertises various styles of lock-joint wood columns the company offes. There is an illustration of the company factory on the title page. A tipped in leaflet describes price discounts.

Date: 1923

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335885

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.003.006

Catalog no. 48 of Koll's patent lock-joint wood columns, manufactured by Hartmann-Sanders Company, Chicago, New York

The catalog advertises various styles of lock-joint wood columns the company offers. There is an illustration of the company factory on the title page. The front cover reads, "A.I.A. File 19E8." A loose card with handwritten and typed text is included.

Date: 1929

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335886

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.003.007

Furniture its selection and use, report of the Subcommittee on Furniture, its selection and use of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

The booklet explains the purpose, construction, and various styles of wood furniture, among other related information.

Date: 1931

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335888

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.125

Harvey Scribner, millright and machinist, No. 325 Water Street, Gardiner, Maine

The leaflet has several shingle machine and jointers offered by the seller. One of the illustrations has been cut out from the leaflet.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335890

Ref. Code: EP001.01.078.01.01.007

Morse & Company, brackets, Valley Avenue, Bangor, Maine

The leaflet advertises several decorative brackets offered by the company. The leaflet shows brackets no. 15 and 20 on one side and 17 and 21 on the reverse.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335895

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.01.01.003

Morse & Company, porch columns and railings, Valley Avenue, Bangor, Maine

Leaflet advertising porch columns and railings offered by the company. The leaflet shows columns number 11 and 12 and styles K, L, and M on one side and railings 25 and 26 on the reverse.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335896

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.01.01.002

Morse & Company, no. 23 mantel, manufacturers, Bangor, Maine

The leaflet advertises a fireplace and mantel offered by the company. The leaflet indicates that the fireplace shown is number 23.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335897

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.03.01.006

Morse & Company, no. 90 mantel, manufacturers, Bangor, Maine

The leaflet advertises a fireplace and mantel offered by the company. The leaflet indicates that the fireplace shown is number 90.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335898

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.03.01.007

Morse & Company, manufacturers, no. 19 mantel, Bangor, Maine

The leaflet advertises a fireplace and mantel offered by the company. The leaflet indicates that the fireplace shown is number 19.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335899

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.03.01.008

Morse & Co., spindles, Bangor, Maine

The leaflet advertises several spindles offered by the company.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335905

Ref. Code: EP001.01.008.01.01.004

Calkins & Co., manufacturers of presses for baling shavings and sawdust, Tonawanda, New York

The circular advertises presses for bailing shavings and sawdust that are offered by the company. Calkins also does custom planing, re-sawing and mouldings. There is a letterhead, dated March 1, 1891, from Calkins & Co. to Rufus Deering & Co. in Portland, Maine, which answers some questions about th...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335910

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.026

How to judge a house, report of the Subcommittee on How to Judge a House of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

The report describes how to judge the quality of a house's constuction. It mostly focuses on parts of the house that are usualy made of wood, but does also look at other aspects like electrical wiring as well.

Date: 1931

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335911

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.200

From windbreak to paneled hall with illustrations from the work of Davenport-Brown Company, Somerville, Mass.

The booklet explains what makes the interior wood paneling offered by the company so good and how they are able to maintain such high quality.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335913

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.013.033

Long-Bell service bulletin, September, 1925, the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Missouri

The bulletin "is a merchandising publication for retail lumber dealers." The cover is reproduced from the cover of "Book of lawn furniture" published by the Long-Bell Lumber Company. The Company provides a retail advertising service for lumber dealers who sell Long-Bell products.

Date: 1925

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335916

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.027

Manufacture and uses of cypress, by Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, Poydras Building, New Orleans, Louisiana; Graham Building, Jacksonville, Florida

The booklet describes the uses of cypress wood and how cypress wood is grown, cut down, and processed for use.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335918

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.021

Suggestions for painting and decorating cypress dwellings and structures with prepared paints, Henry A. Gardner, Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, Poydras Building, New Orleans, Louisiana; Graham Building, Jacksonville, Florida

Guidance is provided in painting cypress structures and interiors.

Date: 1923

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335920

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.022

Tidewater Cypress, U.S. government report, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, bulletin number 95 and technical note number 173, Forest Products Laboratory, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D.C.; Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, Poydras Building, New Orleans, Louisiana; Graham Building, Jacksonville, Florida

The durability and uses of tidewater cypress is described in the item.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335921

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.023

New England moulding patterns, 1st ed., published by the Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau, Little Rock, Arkansas

The booklet contains the dimensions and price list for various pine wood moldings that are comonly used in the lumber trade in New England. The warehouse distribution is Hawkins Lumber & Warehouse Company, Inc., 210 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The warehouses are at 66 Cambridge Street, Char...

Date: 1937

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335924

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.024

Frantz residential garage doors, catalog 306, Frantz Manufacturing Company, Sterling, Illinois

The catalog shows doors for residental garages offered by the company.

Date: 1969, undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335926

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.004.009

Arkansas soft pine, satin-like interior trim, soft, workable common lumber, standard moulding and grading rules, includes moulding supplement of new forms, compiled by Robert H. Brooks, Advertising, Arkansas Soft Pine Bureau, Little Rock, Arkansas

The handbook shows the shape and dimensions of moulding for pine lumber offered by the company. The cover title reads Arkansas soft pine hand book, Turgeon Brothers Wholesale Lumber in Auburn, Maine.

Date: 1923

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335929

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.025

Small colonial homes, The Architectural Guild of Small Home Design, Inc., 540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

The catalog shows the dimensions, floor plans, and related information about small houses in order to aid in their constuction and use.

Date: 1932

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335931

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.201

Correct woodwork for English and Norman French homes, Morgan Woodwork Organization, Chicago, Illinois

The catalogs feature appropriate woodwork for various aspects of English and French Norman style homes offered by the company. One of the catalogs was distributed though Brockway-Smith-Haigh-Lovell Co. in Boston, Mass. The front cover has text reading "A.I.A. File No. 19E."

Date: 1930

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335933

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.008.021

Correct woodwork for the Spanish home, Morgan Woodwork Organization, Chicago, Illinois

The catalog features appropriate woodwork for various aspects of Spanish style homes offered by the company. The front cover has text reading "A.I.A. File No. 19E."

Date: 1930

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335934

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.008.022

Schwerd quality columns, A.F. Schwerd Manufacturing Co., factory and office, 3181-3225 McClure Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The catalog features examples of and details for columns sold by the company. The columns at historic houses are used as examples. The columns at the Harvard University Business School and Law Library are displayed. A loose leaflet is included and there are order form postcards attached inside the ...

Date: 1930

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335937

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.003.008

As built by Pope & Cottle Co., Pope & Cottle Co., Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, Mass.

The catalog features the dimensions, floor plans, and other pertinent information about prefabricated houses and buildings offered by the company. There is a loose price list in the catalog.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335938

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.202

Redwood home plans by California architects, California Redwood Association, 24 California Street, San Francisco, California

The catalog shows the details and floor plans of several home designs offered by the company.

Date: 1929

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335939

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.203

Notebook: Memoranda about Farm, Relatives, & Self [1 item]

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 335964

Ref. Code: MS008.22.10.18

Homes of moderate cost, J.G. Deering & Son, lumber, 14 Elm Street, Biddeford, Maine

The catalog shows exteriors and floor plans for homes offered by the company.

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335984

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.204

Dubois Woven Wood Fence, imported solely by Robert C. Reeves Co., 187 Water Sreet, New York, New York

The fences are made in France and intended for large estates bordering public highways. Louis H. Frohman, advertising is cited on the last page of text.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335987

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.002.013

124 garage plans, lawn and garden utility buildings, National Plan Service, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

The catalog has various designs for 1, 2 and 2 1/2 car garages, carports, horse barns and garden-poolside buildings. The item includes a letter about the company's drafting and design service dated 1973. The blueprint order form can be done through Deering Lumber, 14 Elm Street, Biddeford, Maine.

Date: 1970

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335988

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.004.010

Earth integrated residential designs, earth bermed, earth sheltered, superinsulated, Brent Anderson Associates, Inc., pubished by National Plan Service, 435 West Fullerton Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois

The catalog has drawings and floor plans for earth integrated and earth sheltered homes offered by the company. There are 2 copies, one with "Store copy, please do not remove" written on the cover and one with "Office copy" and a sticker for Deering Lumber, Inc. on the cover.

Date: 1984

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335991

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.205

Trade card for Crosman's Tomato Seeds, Crosman Bros., Rochester, New York

The business is a grower, importer, and dealer in garden, flower and farm seeds. The illustration caption reads "Tomato Prime, and Quick on Time!" A donkey carries a giant tomato with an elf or brownie figure on top.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335990

Ref. Code: EP001.01.002.05.01.008

What you can do with paneling, Western Wood Products Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon

The catalog shows wooden wall paneling offered by the company. A booklet inside the back cover explains how to install paneling and how to apply paneling vertically, horizontally or in a herringbone pattern.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335993

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.013.034

Antique reproductions, cabinet hardware and period fittings, I. Sack Cabinet Hardware Company, 85 Charles Street, Boston; 658 Lexington Avenue, New York

The catalog shows various examples of cabinet hardware and period fittings offered by the company. There is a loose 20 page price list.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335994

Ref. Code: EP001.12.014.001.021

Buildings of distinction as built by Pope & Cottle, their advantages in economy construction durability, Pope & Cottle Co., Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, Mass.

The catalog shows exteriors and floor plans of cottages, bungalows, garages, and similar buildings offered by the company. Includes a letter from the company thanking the recipient for their interest in the company's wares.

Date: 1932

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 335995

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.206