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Steel Frame Building Construction (1927)

A multi-story building under construction, showing the bare steel I-beam framework and partially completed interior walls, with stacks of bricks in the foreground. — Steel Frame Building Construction (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Donald A. Hall Sr. possessed a keen engineering eye that extended beyond aviation. He photographed this multi-story building under construction, documenting the exposed structural steel framework and the raw materials that defined 1920s urban development.