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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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XX AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1911
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%jN_A TOWER LIKE THIS mm1 mmmmummmmm IS THE CORCORAN IDEA (Based on 40 year.' experience) The place for the Tank is on a tower, not in the ™l^T,™i must be lead lincd- AND LEAD CONTAMINATES THE WATER. SIX REASONS (1) Fire protection without fail from the tank placed high on a tower. (2) No chance of flooding the whole- house in case of accident. (3) Two tanks on one tower (see il- lustration). Upper for the house, low- er for the garden. (4) Any size tank possible on a tower and the water supply can never fail. (5) No extra foundations and beam- ing necessary, as for a house tank. (6) Both tank and tower built to har- monize with the su-rounding archi- tecture. OK IF YOU PREFER A NEVER FAILING WINDMILL one that requires no care, no attention and no repairs, install a CORCORAN WINDMILL TOINT JUDITH, RHODE ISLAND CORCORAN It is a silent, automatic pumping equipment that costs nothing to oper- ate, is never out of order and your water supply is as abundant as that of any city home. The housing for the windmill can be built as a house annex or as part of the garage. Send for our "Tank Tower and Windmill Book A. J. CORCORAN, Inc. 15 John St., N. Y. City Factory: Jersey City. N. J. £ Wl Ml AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AAAAAA& The New Building Estimator

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v.8(1911)
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  • bookid:americanhomesgar81911newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:326
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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  • BHL Consortium
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