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A wide variety of housing throughout the United States appears in this set, including rural, town, and city dwellings that date from the 1800s to the present. Unless otherwise noted, the images are from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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  Small shops line the street below upstairs apartments in the El Barrio neighborhood, New York City. 2010s.

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  M. Miller Farm, Sharpsburg, Maryland, built early 1800s.

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  Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, saying grace before Thanksgiving dinner, Washington, DC. 1940s.

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  The Friends' new home had been vacant for many years, but they plan to rebuild, Albion, New York vicinity. 1940s.

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  "The Breakers," Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, Newport, Rhode Island, built 1890s.

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  Chief's painted house with totem pole, deserted Tlingit Indian village, Cape Fox, Alaska, July 1899.

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  Brooklyn Convalescent Home, Far Rockaway, New York. 1950s.

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  Home-work (crochet) in East Side Tenement home, New York City. 1910s.

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  Miller house, Columbus, Indiana. Designed by architect Eero Saarinen, 1950s.

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  "Comforts of home" in the Bowery. 1950s.

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  Adobe architecture–the Kromer House, built in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque in the early 1900s.

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  Harper House, Centreville, Maryland, built 1880s.

• New Madrid County, Missouri. Kitchen of a sharecropper house. 1930s.

• King William Street (Houses), San Antonio, Texas, built 1880s.

• New apartments, Washington, DC, 1960s.

• Toni Morrison, author, at her upstate New York home. 1980s.

• "After the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, San Francisco," California, 1907.

• Model home interior, 1870s.

• Orange grower's home, Ormond, Florida. 1890s.

• Walker guest house, Sanibel Island, Florida. By architect Paul Rudolph, 1952.

• "Cabins on canal barges are home to many a family. Erie Canal, New York." 1940s.

• Oswego, New York. A home in the Polish section. 1940s.

• Rolling cigarette cases in tenement home, New York City. 1910s.

• A boy sleeping at his home on East 62nd Street, New York City. 1930s.

• Girls from Richwood, West Virginia, in their tent home, Batavia, New York. 1940s.

• Part of the old Paramount Theatre building in Clarksdale, Mississippi, became loft apartments. 2010s.

• Workers' homes. Little Falls, New York. 1940s.

• Old mills, slowly converting to residential apartments, in Asheboro, North Carolina. 2010s.

• "Children's protest parade. They want better homes." New York City, 1930s.

• "Chinese-American playing Chinese checkers with her Jewish friend in Flatbush home." New York City, 1940s.

• Condominiums at a ski resort in Summit County, Colorado. 2010s.

• Apartments on Santa Catalina Island, California. 2010s.

• The Idaho Apartments neon sign in Pocatello, Idaho. 2020s.

• Vintage "diving girl" sign on the Pueblo Hotel and Apartments Building in Tuscon, Arizona. 2010s.

• "Home of Negro sharecropper, near Port Barre, Louisiana." 1930s.

• Loft apartments that overlook the baseball stadium in Lansing, Michigan. 2010s.

• Apartments, Hollywood Beach, Florida. 1990s.

• Modular/Mobile architecture for public housing, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Designed by Paul Rudolph in the 1960s.

• Modular/Mobile architecture for public housing, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Designed by Paul Rudolph in the 1960s.

• "All is not gold that glitters," 1903.

• "Welcome - defense workers! Homes registration office ...," 1941.

• Nebraska sod house, 1909.

• Proposal for modular housing (prefab aluminum). Designed by architect Charles Goodman, 1940.

• William Morris Log Cabin, Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. 1930s

• Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Illinois. A Prairie School-style house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, early 1900s.

• Modular/Mobile architecture for public housing, Vicksburg, Mississippi. Designed by Paul Rudolph in the 1960s.