EARTH BRICK CONSTRUCTION
[Chilocco, Oklahoma: Chilocco Agricultural School/Office Of Indian Affairs, 1943]. Illustrated. First Edition. Signed presentation from Edward A. Poynton, the director of Construction, Office of Indian Affairs on the half-title page: “To D. L. Bockius, the very able architect who prepared most of the illustrations for this booklet and in appreciation of our association. Edward A. Poynton. Director of Construction, Office of Indian Affairs. August 1943.” Also, with a typed letter signed by Poynton, on business stationery & dated August 23, 1943. Poynton thanks Bockius for a letter send to the department and says he is forwarding this book. Bockius is mentioned in the Preface. A uncommon war-time publication of the Education Division US Office of Indian Affairs This 1940's booklet is an extensive study about American adobe and earthen building, with many photos of vernacular architecture and native people building. Chapters cover soil characteristics, making simple bricks, testing, curing bricks, molds and forms, asphalt stabilization, mortars of mud, lime and cement, laying up bricks, structural design of walls, allowing for windows, doors, floors, roof construction showing latillas, poles and thatch type roofing materials by pima Indians, plasters with stabilizers of cement, lime and mud. Nailing stucco walls, applying mesh reinforcement, chimneys and fireplaces. Even shows construction of an adobe outhouse. Small quarto: pictorial white wraps; 110 pages. Item #57069
Very Good (very, very light fold down middle; contents clean & tight; light paper clip mark to few pages and to edge of letter).
Price: $85.00