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The national builder.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints Oversize 1885-1924 Nationa
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Standardized Title:
- National builder (Chicago, Ill.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Periodicals.
- Architecture.
- Building--Periodicals.
- Building.
- Physical Description:
- v. : ill. ; 25-35 cm.
- Monthly
- Began in 1885.
- -v. 20, no. 8 (Aug. 1896) ; Sept. 1896-Mar. 1898 ; v. 26, no. 4 (Apr. 1898)-v. 67, no. 10 (Oct. 1924).
- Other Title:
- Hill's national builder -Sept. 1887
- Continues:
- Architect, builder and woodworker
- Chicago builder and trader
- Interstate architect
- Continued By:
- Building age and the builders' journal
- Permanent builder
- Building age and national builder
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Wm. D. Kennedy & Co., -1924.
- Notes:
- "A journal devoted to the building interest."
- Issues for -Sept. 1887 edited by T.E. Hill.
- Athenaeum copy: Description based on Vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1885); title from caption.
- None published, Feb. 1896?
- Two vols. per year, 1898-1910, 1912, 1919.
- Issues for Sept. 1896-Mar. 1898 lack vol. numbering but constitute v. 20, no. 9-v. 26, no. 3.
- Some issues accompanied by supplements; supplements include full color plates of plans and building patterns; suppl. to v.5 contains: Samples of 'The King' tinted plates manufactured by the Chicago White Lead & Oil Co.
- Organ of: Wholesale Sash, Door and Blind Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest, <-July 1885>; Builders' and Traders' Exchange of Chicago, <Jan. 1896>-July 1897; Chicago Masons' and Builders' Association, <Jan. 1897>-July 1897.
- Absorbed: Architect, builder and woodworker, Jan. 1896; Chicago builder and trader? (Cf. National builder (Chicago, Ill.), Mar. 1896, p. 57); and: Interstate architect, Aug. 1902.
- Merged with: Building age and the builders' journal, and: Permanent builder, to form: Building age and national builder.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- Athenaeum copy: INCOMPLETE: Library has scattered volumes and issues: v. 1-6 (1885-1888) ; v. 65 (1922), nos. 2, 4, 9 only ; v. 67 (1924), no.6 only.
- Athenaeum copy: Vols. 1-6 bound together in 1 v. (Dornsife)
- Athenaeum copy: Copy 2 of v. 67 (1924), no.6 gift of Nancy S. Powell; p. 33-46 lacking.
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