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How shall we Paint our Houses?
July 30, 1868 issue

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This article focuses on the book "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 John W. Masury. This little book contains much valuable information. Persons who live in the country, as farmers, and who have houses, barns corn-cribs, ice-houses, and the like, built of frame, and covered with clapboards and shingles. The chapters on harmony and discord of colors, and all that is said about decorative effect, might as well be omitted.

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POPULAR Treatise on the Art of House Painting, Plain & Decorative, Showing the Nature, Composition, & Mode of Production of Paints & Painters' Colors, & Their Proper & Harmonious Combination & Arrangement, A (Book); MASURY, John W.; HOUSE painting; DECORATIVE arts; BOOKS; LITERATURE
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