Historical Art PhotoNews Posters
Circa 1946 - 1952
Circa 1946 -
Offers Always Considered
A House An Hour
All-Metal House Erected In 3 Weeks
Housing
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The Wingfoot Homes,.lnc., plant at Washington Park, III., is geared to turn out a finished home every hour. 1. Floor being covered with linoleum. Assembling units for house costing $2,650, .3.26 ft. x 15 ft. house weighs 3 tons. 4. Veterans are getting first call on the new house.
Exterior view of new pre-fabricated, all-steel and porcelain enameled home being built by Lustron Corp., at the war-time Dodge-Chrysler plant at Hinsdale, III. At. full production the company will turn out
400 houses daily.
400 houses daily.
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Building New Homes In Eight Hours
Steel-Porcelain Pre-Fabricated
Home Costs $7,000
Home Costs $7,000
One Way To Solve The Housing Problem
Odd Street In Boxville, Yakima County, WA
The Butler Mfg. Company of Kansas City, Mo., is now producing an all metal house, consisting of aluminum over a steel frame. 1. Packaged house arrives at foundation. 2. Wall panels are keyed together. 3. Inside walls may be plastic-covered. 4. Finished two~room home is designed to sell for $7,000.
Using pre-cut, partly panelized construction, the Benton Building Co. of Cleveland has erected 65 homes for veterans in last two months and has a goal of 1000 for the year. 1. House arrives at 8:00 A.M. 2. Walls go up at 8:30. 3. Siding and Toof at 11:301 4. Ready for interior work at 4:30 P.M. Price $8950.00 with $1250.00 down.
Hutchinson, Kansas - Four ex-GI's, unable to find suitable housing, went to a war housing project near Wichita, 65 miles away, bought the houses shown above, and had them trucked to their new locations. Here the houses make a strange sight in the heart of the city's business district.
Rows and rows of "houses" - and all of them empty - would seem to offer a haven for desperate house hunters, were it not for the fact that the "houses" are composed of tremendous;.&tacks of empty apple boxes which are piled up like this because there are not warehouses for the millions of boxes used in the apple season. Roofs are added to protect the boxes.
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Concrete House Built In Six Days
Prefabricated Home For $6,300 Or Less
1. Looking like a frame cottage, this house is made of concrete, the same way bridges and dams are built. 2. Steel form is sprayed with oil so concrete doesn't stick. 3. Removing steel window form after concrete has set. 4. Crane lilts out form from living room. 5-room house
and garage costs $11,900.
and garage costs $11,900.
Display model gives and indication of how the new prefabricated homes to be mass-produced by Gunnison Homes, Inc., will look when set up. Home has two bedrooms and will sell for $350. down and $37.
a month for 25 years.
a month for 25 years.
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Beside each stock number is the available quantity of this original poster.
Former Army Transport
Plane To Be Home
Plane To Be Home
Cheryl Williams (doorway) a former Wave lieutenant, and Jean Sutherland (seated) discuss remodeling plans with Errol Leeman as he builds foundation for their warplane home at Riverside, Calif. The fuselage will be divided into rooms and they'll name it "Confusi-Lodge".
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Construction
Construction
Takes 19 Years To Build Self A “Castle”
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When Ted Bettendorf, a 61-year-old bachelor born in Vtanden, Luxembourg, started excavations for a home in Fox River Grove, III., he ran into a large rock bed, and so decided to build a rock house, single-handed, pattered after the Vianden Caste in his homeland. Right: {path leading to drawbridge outside "castle".
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