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Carpentry, Joinery & Woodworking

Carpentry, joinery, cabinet work, wood construction, stair building, framing, finishing, and practical use of woodworking tools.

Building Construction, Masonry & Roofing

House construction, bricklaying, stonework, concrete, foundations, roofing, plastering, structural methods, and safe building practice.

Plumbing, Painting & Household Repairs

Plumbing, water supply, drainage, painting, paperhanging, glazing, hardware, fixtures, repairs, and household renovation.

Home Maintenance, Tools & Practical DIY

Tool selection, workshop methods, estimating materials, upkeep, inspection, maintenance, safety, and practical projects for the home.

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House painting

vi p., 1 l., [9]-57 p. 19 cm

House painting

19 p. 15 cm

Sketches & suggestions for house painting

21 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm. x 24 cm. ; trade catalog

House painting methods with the brush and spray gun; industrial painting on steel, iron, cement, brick and wood surfaces

6 p., leaf, 17-382, [4] p. 19 cm

House painting suggestions with Longman & Martinez pure paints.

12 p., ill, 12 cm, trade catalog

House Painting

68 p, ill, 19 x 13 cm, trade catalog

Artistic house painting

p. cm

House painting plainly taught

60 p. 18 cm

How shall we paint our houses? A popular treatise on the art of house-painting: plain and decorative. Showing the nature, composition and mode of production of paints and painters’ colors, and their proper and harmonious combination and arrangement. By…

216 p. 18 cm

The painter's manual : containing the best methods of, and the latest improvements in, house painting, sign painting, graining, varnishing, polishing, staining, gilding, glazing, silvering, Grecian oil painting, Chinese painting, oriental painting, &c.…

96 p. : 19 cm

Carpentry For Boys

How-to book about carpentry, first published in 1914., with over 300 illustrations. "A book which treats, in a most practical and fascinating manner all subjects pertaining to…

Smith & Winchester : illustrated catalogue of steam, water, gas and plumbing supplies, wind engines, pumps, artesian wells, tools, etc.

Smith & Winchester : illustrated catalogue of steam, water, gas and plumbing supplies, wind engines, pumps, artesian wells, tools, etc. Author: Smith & Winchester Year: 1894…

Suggestions for house decoration in painting, woodwork, and furniture

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Timber technicalities : being definitions of terms used in the home and foreign timber, mahogany and hardwood industries, the sawmill and woodworking trades, as well as those employed in connection with architecture and building construction

Timber technicalities : being definitions of terms used in the home and foreign timber, mahogany and hardwood industries, the sawmill and woodworking trades, as well as those…

Elements of woodwork and construction

Includes index

The modern home; a book of British domestic architecture for moderate incomes; a companion volume to "The British home of to-day

--The home from outside. By W.H. Bidlake.--The interior and its furniture. By H. Ricardo.--Some decorative essentials. By J. Cash.--Sanitation. By J. Cash

Architectural interior and exterior woodwork standardized : the permanent furniture for your home.

238 p., [14] [. of plates, ill., 31 cm trade catalogs.

The clock jobber's handybook [microform] : a practical manual on cleaning, repairing and adjusting; embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes employed in clockwork

The clock jobber's handybook [microform] : a practical manual on cleaning, repairing and adjusting; embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes…

Make your home more beautiful with Curtis woodwork.

16 p., ill., 28 cm., trade catalogs

Correct woodwork for the Spanish home : made by Morgan Woodwork Organization.

16 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., trade catalog

Woodwork. No. 300.: the permanent furniture for your home / Curtis Companies.

74 p., [8] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm., trade catalog

By-law No. 13493: A by-law of the City of Winnipeg relating to plumbing and drainage work

"Passed by Council--April 15th, 1929."--Cover. // DOA: 1929 Spatial: Winnipeg (Man.) // On cover: "Passed by Council, April 15th, 1929."

A Selection of Crane Plumbing Fixtures

Trade catalog, Text, Illus, Photographs, CCA TH6255.C7(ID:95-B4376), ca.1920, 99 p, 22 cm

Merchandising the plumbing business

4 p.l., 11-107 p. 17 cm

1925 City of Astoria, Oregon: Plumbing and Electrical Code, Ordinance No. 6556; Passed by the Common Council, May 5, 1924

15-page paperback booklet with gray covers. The booklet has two holes punched in the left side. The front cover has a double line rectangle around the outer edge in black ink.…

Rustic Carpentry

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Enameled Plumbing Ware for Factories etc.

40 p, ill, 28 x 21.5 cm, trade catalog

Simplified plumbing goods

184 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm. ; trade catalog

Plumbing and heating supplies, paints and varnishes, Low Supply Co.

32 p., ill., 28 cm, trade catalog

Watrous plumbing fixtures, patented.

32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm., trade catalog, Booklet No. 406-4-25

Lawler's American sanitary plumbing; a practical work on the best methods of modern plumbing

2 p. l., 307 p. 21 cm

The Plumbing law and rules and regulations of the Department of Public ...

Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Mueller supplementary pages to plumbing goods "G" catalog.

[46] p., ill., 28 cm., trade catalogs

Power, heat, light, plumbing, piping, ventilating and general mechanical equipment for buildings.

23 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., trade catalog

Plumbing catalogue H Grand Rapids Supply Co.: plumbing fixtures, sanitary appliances and plumbers' staples..

446 p., ill., 23 cm., trade catalog

Practical up-to-date plumbing

4 p.l., 7-340 p. 20 cm

Lead [plumbing pipe]

56 p., illus, 24 cm, trade catalog

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