Main entry:

Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, author.

Title & Author:

How the world is housed / by Frank George Carpenter, Litt.D., F.R.G.S.

Publication:

New York : American Book Company, [1911]
copyright 1911

Description:

352 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Series:

[Readers on Commerce and Industry.]

Notes:
Includes index.
Among the tent dwellers -- People who live in huts -- Houses of grass, cane, and leaves -- Some odd dwellings of far-away lands -- Homes of colonial days -- In the world's great forests -- Our logging industry -- From log to lumber -- Woodworking in other lands -- Among the ruins of some great buildings of the past -- A visit to the quarries-marble, granite, and slate-- Artificial stone-concrete, cement, and plaster -- Brick structures of antiquity -- Our American brickyards -- Iron -- Mining iron -- In the furnaces and rolling mills -- Nails and screws, locks and hinges -- Tin and zinc -- Lead, copper, and brass -- A trip to fairyland -- A visit to a glass factory -- Paper-wood pulp -- The story of paper -- Paints, oils, and varnishes -- Building a home -- The world's tallest buildings -- In a New York hotel -- Fire -- Warming our homes-fireplaces, stoves, hot water, and steam -- Lighting the house -- Our great oil industry -- How gas is made -- Lighting by electricity -- Lamps and burners. How matches are made -- The old oaken bucket and its successors -- The water supply of great cities -- Furniture -- Floor coverings.

Resources:
Donor bookplate

Subject:

Geography 1870-1950.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
Dwellings History Juvenile literature.
Dwellings Cross-cultural studies Juvenile literature.
House construction History Juvenile literature.
Habitations.
Habitations Histoire Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Habitations Études transculturelles Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Habitations Construction Histoire Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
dwellings.
Geography.
House construction.

Form/genre:

History.
Juvenile works.

Added entries:

Readers on commerce and industry.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286255
Call No.: BIB 226469
Status: Available