Select Historic Preservation Publications Now Available Through the Internet Archive
The University of Maryland Libraries recently digitized over 200 pre-1923 books and pamphlets documenting historic preservation activities in the United States, through the Mass Digitization Collaborative program, a collaboration between Lyrasis and the Internet Archive.
Topics vary widely, from historical publications, such as Public school buildings of the city of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1867 by Franklin Davenport Edmunds to the practical publications, covering topics such as the “art of lettering“, an 1868 treatise on house painting, and wood fibre carvings for trim and mantels.
For more titles, please visit the University of Maryland, College Park’s Internet Archive collection.
Images from Wood fibre carvings / Decorators Supply Co. (1900)