• Burnham and Root (architectural firm)
• Burnham and Root (draughtsman)
• Abstract Safety Vault Company (client)

Chemical Bank Building, Chicago: Riser diagram and plans, elevations and sections for safe waste connections, office sinks, gravel basins and safe pans

printed ca. 1889

• dessins d'exécution
• mechanical drawing (building system drawing)
• plumbing drawing

Hectograph with graphite

sheet: 60.9 x 101.2 cm

DR1986:0767:358

• line drawing
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

• general views
• partial views

- Sheet is dirty and creased throughout and has tears and losses at the edges. Perforations at the l. edge indicate that sheet was formerly bound with other sheets.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the print, in graphite, b. "Monadnock / Same details and as in note"; c.r.: "Note / Also make detail / of Barbers basin / stands like specification" inscribed and numbered - by the draughtsman, on the original, l.r.: with title, the architectural firm's name and "88" [within circles; drawing number]; l.: with floor numbers; b.: with types of pipes and letters identifying pipes; and throughout: with drawing titles, dimensions, pipe diameters and notes concerning the design of the plumbing components [one added in graphite]

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• lavatories (sinks)
• chart
• catch basin
• fixture trap
• safe (plumbing component)