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Product catalogues: Building materials: Roofing and gutters
GUSN-285778
The Company distributes Blue Jay Shingles made from South Carolina cypress. This type of shingle was used to roof Washington's Mt. Vernon home. Text inside the brochure reads ..."in exactly the same manner that the slaves of the pioneers fashioned them 300 years ago." The back cover shows Pequot House in Salem, Massachusetts, a reproduction built to celebrate the 1930 Tercentenary of the settling of Massachusetts. The reproduction was built by Pequot Mills using Blue Jay Shingles.
advertising
business (commercial function)
building materials
roofs
houses
dwellings
slavery
brochures
1 brochure : illustrations ; 11 x 8 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.12.006.012.013
11 x 8 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Mount Vernon (Fairfax county, Virginia) [historic site]
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
James Lumber Co. (Publisher)
brochures
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Shingles
Broad Street (Boston, Mass.)
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Product catalogues: Building materials: Roofing and gutters
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