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Engineer's schematic with figures of a hoist-lifted smoke pipe run along a truss at a signal showing red in the years of the six-level city. Work 9825.
Single figure dwarfed by machinery of a semaphore signal atop a roof of turning ventilators, Christmas 1968, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9534.
A smoke-veiled speaker flown from a chain hoist above the deck on a top rail, two days before the doors opened, the frame outlasted the building, sleeve front with a steel frame photograph. Work 8643.
Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.
Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.
Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object. Work 6617.
The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print. Work 6381.
A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph. Work 5801.
New and improved: a fire escape after the fire, street photography. Work 4682.
A movie poster for a film with one location, Kay Sage canvas, shot from a manhole. Work 2381.