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Correct color schemes illustrated.

National Lead Company · 1910 · National Lead Co. · 17 pictures

A 1910 trade catalogue issued by the National Lead Company, which made paint, to show correct exterior colour schemes for houses. Its plates pair one large coloured house picture with smaller black-and-white photographs of similar homes, aimed at builders and homeowners choosing paint. The plates offer a designer ready examples of American suburban house types and how paint picks out their trim, roofs and porches.

Paint · Interior decoration

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