(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 African Notes the roads and rail

Notes the roads and rail lines

Image size for each is approximately 8 x 5 (inches)

Image size is approximately 23x20

(Thematic - Economic History) SRC Century-Plus Chart of Investment and Economic History

(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 African Notes the roads and rail(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper 1884 1885, Thom, 1968 In the wake of the Chicago fires that swept through the city, architect William Labaron Jenney designed the next great step in building upward. Brick buildings could only reach up to five or six floors due to their own massive weight, but with declining prices of iron and steel, Jenney had a plan. In 1884 he laid out the structure of the Home Life Insurance building in Chicago which