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The house that was reformed : a little story of the Wilson's experience with the Bay State man.

Wadsworth, Howland & Co. · 1900 · [Boston, Mass. : Wadsworth, Howland & Co.] · 13 pictures

This is a 1900 promotional booklet published by Wadsworth, Howland & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, aimed at households and prospective paint buyers, telling a short story about a home refreshed with the company's paint. Its pictures pair pen-and-ink scenes of a woman and a man in a parlour and by a tiled fireplace, with a paint can at their feet, and sepia photographs of rooms with rugs, wooden furniture and framed pictures, showing period interiors a designer could use for vintage domestic settings.

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