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 261
n many of the large office buildings,particularly those of Class B construction with wood floors, fires of sufficient intensity occurred to incinerate the contents of the largest safes. Many of these were of standard makes and supposed to Safes and Small Vaults. , r«. • .1 /• • ,• , ,1 • ^ ^ ii n 1… … VAULT of the Bancroft-Whitney Publishing Company. In the rear of a building on California Street betweenKearny and Dupont Streets. A Standard Underwriters metal covered door separated this vault from the basement of thebuilding. The tire destroyed the door, igniting the contents of the vault,…
Building, Fireproof · Earthquakes · Fires
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