Historic New England

Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, NH. Exterior doorway drawing

Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, NH. Exterior

Building corner of Joy Place and Joy Street, Boston, Mass.

Lindall Place, construction site, Boston, Mass.

Lindall Place, construction site seen from Cambridge Street, Boston, Mass.

Singer Manufacturing Company's sewing machines, unrivaled for the range and excellence of their work and extent of their sales, attachments for all kinds of work, 34 Union Square, New York; Lawrence o…

Luke Baker, imports and sells, wholesale and retail, all kinds of English and India goods, No. 14 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.

Exterior view of City Hall, City Hall Plaza, Bicentennial celebration, Boston, Mass.

Aerial view of City Hall, City Hall Plaza, Bicentennial celebration, Boston, Mass.

West side of Atlantic Avenue, north corner of High and Broad Streets, Boston, Mass.

East side of Atlantic Avenue, north of Clinton Street, Boston, Mass.

East side of Commercial Street, south corner of Eastern Avenue, Boston, Mass.

Diamond homes, The Diamond Match Company, Biddeford, Maine, undated

Old colonial houses: a collection of fine 17th & 18th century authentic colonial homes faithfully reproduced on the exterior to the exact sizes and proportions of the originals with up-dated interiors…

Premier small homes, Lumber Centre, Inc., 390 Albany Street, Springfield, Mass., undated

Concrete houses, Portland Cement Association, Chicago, Ill., undated

Summer in the home of your dreams, Pope & Cottle Co., Revere Beach Parkway, Revere, Mass., undated

Plan book of model homes, Nationwide House Plan Service, Providence, R.I., 1949

Low-cost cottage construction in America: a study based on the housing collection in the Harvard Social Museum, no. 7, by Winthrop A. Hamlin, Harvard University, Department of Social Ethics, Cambridge…

The house that Silas built, by George Ethelbert Walsh, David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Ill., 1922

Waiting for playmates, location unkown, undated

No. 1 American homes issued by the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., Western and Southern Department, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1889, Press of Cohen & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1889

Olde fashioned hints to home-makers: little helps that have stood the test of time, Chapple Publishing Co., Ltd., Boston, Mass., undated

Home Planners' homes of natural stone, by Richard B. Pollman, Home Planners, Inc., 16310 Grand River, Detroit, Mich., 1953

Photograph of the 366th Infantry, Fort Devens, Mass., 1941 May 16

How to remodel your home, edited by Victor S. Fox, Style Publications, Inc., 60 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y., 1946

The homebuilder, National Homebuilder's Society, 6 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill., 1923

Footprints Walking Tours scrapbook

Modern homes, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Modern Homes Division, Chicago, Ill.; Newark, N.J., 1936

Best way to achieve low-cost housing is to build low-cost homes, National Small Homes Demonstration, Inc., National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Transportation Building, Washington, D.C., 1939