(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 oil & gas A rare promotional broadside advising

A rare promotional broadside advising you to not "rent when you can have a home of your own and be independent

It's the "Pigskin Panorama" map of the US showing the locations and nicknames for the college teams of the time

but for some reason the Osage Reservation is show as remaining distinct from the rest of the new state

Image size is 22 x 30

Railroad lines across the continents are showns and identified

(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 oil & gas A rare promotional broadside advising(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