Bankers Trust Building Construction Photographs 1910-11
Photo #B16987
Photograph courtesy Weiskopf & Pickworth LLP
 

The first steel columns appear among the mazes of temporary timber shoring. The steel fabricator's main stiff-legged derrick has been erected on the new steel columns. Smaller derricks are visible below; they were probably used to remove materials such as the temporary shoring from the excavation.