Barns (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)

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A A long way-reaching visual survey of farm buildings across the USA, tracing their historical and regional influences.

The primary within the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Barns presents a broad, fresh, and newly informed visual analysis of certainly one of The usa’s fundamental building types. In a nation founded upon agrarian principles, with a cultural and physical landscape as vast as it’s diverse, the barn has long been recognized as an American icon. Drawn from the vast holdings of the Library of Congress, just about 1,000 illustrations provide a tour of barns across the USA, from New England to the Great Lakes to the South, Midwest, and A long way West.

Barns traces geographical and chronological continuities of type, design, and construction, and Dutch, German, French and Spanish influence. Captions identify each and every document and building, and all images are included on a CD-ROM with a link to the Library’s high-resolution files.

Barns is The primary comprehensive visual resource of its kind, an invaluable tool for architects, historians, students, and all people who love barns.

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