Book of homes
A mail-order catalogue of house plans issued by Montgomery Ward and Co. in Chicago in 1915, offered to American households wanting to build a home from a ready design. The pictures are plain black-and-white floor plans with room labels, dimensions and porches, showing how rooms, stairs and closets were arranged in compact early twentieth-century houses; a designer might borrow their clear line-drawn plan layouts and simple labelled architectural lettering.
