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Title: 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
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Himmelwright, Abraham Lincoln Artman, 1865- Roebling Construction Co
Subjects: Building, Fireproof Earthquakes Fires
Publisher: New York, N.Y., The Roebling construction company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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)ortion of the walls allaround the building to ftill awaj. The round cast-iron columnsin the first story are badly deflected, but still support the floorabove. The cement floors are in good condition, and the cementfinish is but slightly d.-unagcd.
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LINDA ^ ISTA APARTINIP^NT HOUSE. Soutlieast Corner Turk and Jones Streets. Showing llie total destrnctionof a nine-story, steel skeleton, fireproof building by dynamite. This building with.stood the earthquake without damage, andwas dynamited by the authorities when the fire tlireatened this seetion of the city. The Roebling cinder concrete floors wereof the flat slab type, and the partitions were of Roebling wire lath and plaster, finishing 2 in thickness. The fire subsequentlyconsumed all that was combustible in the debris. 930 MISSION STREET SUB-STATION. Mission Street, near Third Stnit. This is a three-story brick building, ahiiost a duplicate in sizeand style of the Eiglith Street Sub-Station, the details of con-struction being identically the same as that building. The wood roof of this building was consumed, and portionsof the third-story wall arc down. The concrete arches of thefirst and second floors remain in first-class condition. The brickwalls are in good condition, tlier

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