Search Results: Houses, homes from The FW Collections

A substantial arts and crafts trade catalog for 208 bungalow style homes. Home pictures have been cut from 15 pages presumably for sales. Plans cost from $8 to $15 . estimated construction from $758 to $4000.Near fine, bright copy= good +

Shortened version of House catalogue

Family with dog in front of farmstead
Professional picture by itinerant photographer. Mounted on mat. Location unknown .purchased on line. In good condition. 10x8 7x5

Homestead

Family Home, children, buggies in back

Happy Homes and The Hearts That Make Them, 1889. Gorgeous and ornate hardback Victorian book - Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them. This delightful volume was written by Samuel Smiles and revised with additional material by Charles Gaskell. The cover is SILK with the coveted vivid red boards with gilt and black accents, clean and crisp. Even the spine is beautifully detailed. And, it is in NEAR FINE condition with light shelf wear. It is 644 pages in length, it touches on topics from Good Manners to Household Management to The Power of a Good Woman to Companionship in Marriage - plus so much more! Packed full of interesting and sometimes archaic information, this book is sure to entertain and amuse. It features an ornate cover and spine, pretty printed end papers, marbled edges, and illustrations sprinkled throughout.The front opens to a tissue covered presentation page with cherub heads by the renowned artist, Sir Joshua Reynolds. This page records the name of the recipient and the person… Read More

Purchased locally.

Bramhall House, New York, 1951. 284p., 215 b/w illus., slightly chipped dj in very good- condition.

2001, clean and unmarked pages very Good+

Matted Sod House, Cabinet Photo
8x10, mounted on mat. Location, photographer and location unknown. Purchased locally. Good condition. Itinerant Photographer

Matted Supt. Home at South Bend, Ne Cabinet Photo people listed
The marked people are Sophia Wotipka, Mr and Mrs Barnell, George Sergis and Wayne. Sheldons, Sloups And Jones. Photographer and Date Unknown. Purchased at local show . Good condition.

Framed photo of The Phelps Home in Frontier Co. NE Names included
Phelps home, where Jennie and Bert married, George on Horse. John and Hatties in the buggy;
Father and Eva on the porch; Massimie standing by fence; Ted the baby on his mother's lap Llesle love
Standing by little wagon, Grover Gordon in the background at the water tank witten jmj
Description: 13.75 x 11.,75 framed picture with family narrative
Condition: excellent

Pioneer Dug Out

The Sod House is a personal narrativethe intimate story of the settlement and frontier years (1867-1897) of the Nebraska prairie country lying between the Elkhorn and Loup rivers. In the worlds of Dr. Sheldon, himself a pioneer Nebraskan, It preserves for all future generations a faithful picture of the period and the region which it describes.

326 pages,A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press [1967], Lincoln, paperback. Condition: very Good. [woodcuts by Howard Simon] [cover design by Jerry Graff] (illustrator). Published in Lincoln, Nebraska A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press