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Our colonial homes

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · 1894 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · 21 pictures

Samuel Adams Drake's 1894 antiquarian survey of New England colonial houses, published in Boston by Lee and Shepard for readers interested in local history and old architecture. The halftone photographs show clapboard and gambrel-roofed dwellings shot from the street corner, with bare winter trees, picket fences, ruts and dirt roads, and soft grey tonal range useful for period textures and backgrounds.

Historic buildings · Architecture, Domestic

Internet Archive · Brigham Young University · Public Domain Mark 1.0