The building of a Filipino house - making the framework for the roof – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The building of a Filipino house - making the framework for the roof, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The building of a Filipino house - making the framework for the roof
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Workers are shown assembling the roof framework of a house in the Philippines in this stereograph, dated around 1912. Keystone View Company issued stereo cards like this for home viewers, and its scenes from the Philippines, then an American colonial possession, offered a look at local building methods. The caption card's subject tags include typhoons, which suggests why roof framing mattered: in a storm-prone climate, the way a roof was joined and anchored was central to whether a house held up.
| Created / published | c1912 Dec. 12. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J238288 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 24006. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Constr.; Dwellings; Typhoons; Ph. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 782 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157928 |
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