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Architectural and Engineering Plans (2,500 items): Paper tracings and blueprints of "subsistence homesteads" and "experimental villages" built by the Subsistence Homesteads Division (Interior), Division of Subsistence Homesteads (Resettlement Administration), and FSA, including plans of the Arthurdale Community and Reedsville, WV, projects ...
At the beginning of house painting, their symbols and patterns were often based on Ndebele's beadwork. The patterns were tonal and painted with the women's fingers. The original paint on the house was a limestone whitewash. The colors added to make the paintings were mostly natural pigments consisting of browns, blacks, and others.
Inside a hut looking towards the ceiling. An African round hut is a seen as vernacular architecture since they are built of readily available materials. The huts can be built using mud, cow spillings, bricks or grass in some cases.
Dispersed settlement or Streusiedlung in Brülisau, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland. A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement patterns used by landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the world.
Knapp was government surveyor. His plan is the only known plan that shows the outline and dimensions of the kitchen garden and positions it in relation to the house. The plan shows a rectangular garden divided internally into 16 individual beds with what appear to be paths running in a grid pattern through it.
Cracker Homestead at the Forest Capital Museum State Park in Perry, Florida; Florida vernacular architecture at the Cracker Country museum on the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida; Capt. Francis A. Hendry House in LaBelle, Florida; Stephens House at the Manatee Village Historical Park, Bradenton, Florida
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A homesteader turning up beans in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency.It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale.