The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster
A 1906 technical report on the San Francisco earthquake and fire, written by A. L. A. Himmelwright and published in New York by the Roebling Construction Company to argue for fireproof building methods before engineers, architects and insurers. Halftone photographs record gutted interiors, buckled steel framing, collapsed floors, spalled concrete and brick rubble, offering high-contrast ruin textures, exposed structural geometry and stark tonal fields.
