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The colonial architecture of Philadelphia

Cousins, Frank, b. 1851, Riley, Phil Madison, b. 1882 · 1920 · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · 113 pictures

A 1920 survey of Philadelphia's eighteenth-century buildings by photographer Frank Cousins and writer Phil M. Riley, issued in Boston by Little, Brown for architects, builders, and preservation-minded readers. Halftone photographs record doorways, fanlights, pedimented porches, paneled shutters, brick facades, and dormered rooflines in strong black-and-white contrast, supplying period architectural detail and silhouettes for tracing or collage.

Architecture · Architecture, Colonial

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0