Radford's portfolio of details of building construction : a remarkable and unique collection of full-page plates, accurately drawn and reproduced to exact scale ...
A 1911 trade portfolio of scaled construction drawings issued by the Radford Architectural Company of Chicago, compiled by William A. Radford with Bernard L. Johnson and Charles P. Rawson for builders, carpenters and architects working from stock plans. The plates are line drawings of sections, elevations and joinery details \u2014 hatched brickwork and masonry, framed studs and joists, cornice and moulding profiles \u2014 with dimension lines and hand-lettered annotations that supply ready-made technical texture and diagram vocabulary.
