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 (1906)
Himmelwright, Abraham Lincoln Artman, 1865-, Roebling Construction Co · New York, N.Y., The Roebling construction company · leaf 205
i-^. TPS- .^ -tr MONADNOCK BUILDING. First Floor. Showing the effect of dynamiting. One complete bay was entirelydisrupted, the steel connections of the beams and girders being broken, allowing the mass to fall into the basement and wreckingthe expanded metal lath and plaster ceiling of the floor… … MONADNOCK BUILDING. Basement Story. Showing buckled columns caused by the burning of scaffoldinglumber piled around them. The bay of floor construction standing on edge in the centre was broken out by dynamite. Thebuilding was in the course of construction, and the protection of the columns had not…
Building, Fireproof · Earthquakes · Fires
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