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How we are sheltered; a geographical reader

Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · 1906 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · 50 pictures

A school geography reader by James Franklin Chamberlain, published by Macmillan in New York and London in 1906, teaching American children how people build and shelter themselves. Halftone photographs show sod houses on the plains, an earth-lodge interior with seated figures around a fire pit, logging trains among stumps, and quarry work, offering coarse-grained grayscale textures and documentary building scenes.

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