Based on the publication date of this old book on how to build a log cabin, the typesetting of these pages was likely a Linotype machine.1
Typeface test.
1) Is the subtitle, Floor Joists, the typeface Future Bold?
2) Is the main body text Bodoni? Or Caslon?
NOTES:
1) For those interested in additional information on the history of printing and the Linotype machine…
Frank Romano, “Help Save the Linotype”, Museum of Printing (Haverhill, Massachusetts), accessed May 11, 2026, https://www.museumofprinting.org/news-and-events/help-save-the-linotype/
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