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Product catalogues: Building materials: Roofing and gutters
GUSN-285801
The inside of the brochure has a loose blueprint reproduction for the boathouse of John Hay Whitney, Manhasset, Long Island. It was designed by LaFarge Warren & Clark, architects, New York City. The boathouse used the Elhide Shingles. There is a general letter describing the product. The verso shows two houses using the Elhide Shingles, a house in Exeter, Rhode Island and the Old Denison House in Mystic, Connecticut. Text on the brochure reads "A.I.A. Document No. 19-D-1."
advertising
business (commercial function)
building materials
roofs
walls
houses
dwellings
boathouses
brochures
1 brochure : illustrations ; 11 x 8 1/2 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.12.006.012.014
11 x 8 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Manhasset (Nassau county, New York state)
Exeter (Washington county, Rhode Island)
Mystic (New London county, Connecticut)
Elhide Company (Publisher)
brochures
Whitney, John Hay
LaFarge, Warren & Clark
Shingles
Item
Product catalogues: Building materials: Roofing and gutters
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