Book/Printed Material Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners
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Image 1 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 2 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 3 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 4 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners ty 4- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 5 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners PAPER melLL DING STONES C H PORTER MD- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 6 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 7 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners PAPER ON BUILDING STONES j CHARLES EH PORTER MD To the New Capitol Conmissioners ALBANY JOEL MUNSELL 1868- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 8 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 9 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners ALBANY N Y May 12 1868 Hon Hamilton Harris Chairman of The New Capitol Commission SIR Some months since in conversation with the Hon J V L Pruyn a member of your…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 10 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 11 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES rE ERRORS MADE IN SELECTING BUILDING STONES Il GENERAL CHARACTER OF BUILDING STONES o III CAUSES oF THE DESTRUCTION OF STONES IN BUILDINGS LV DETERMINATION OF THE COMPARATIVE…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 12 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 13 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES I ERRORS MADE IN SELECTING BUILDING STONES a General considerations The importance of selecting proper materials for con structing public edifices is so evident that it needs but…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 14 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 8 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES their finest lines and traceries unimpaired after years and even centuries of exposure others quickly show signs of decay and rapidly crumble requiring continual repairs to keep…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 15 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 9 The destruction of building material is exemplified in a remarkable degree in the Old Capitol In the report of the secretary of the interior to congress in…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 16 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 10 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES fingers is sometimes sufficient to detach small portions of the stone The weathering has been so great that already portions of the crumbling material of the walls…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 17 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 11 menced near the bottom and followed the joints and partially transverse or vertical cracks crossing the blocks of marble The 3d 5th 8th 10th 11th 13th 14th…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 18 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 12 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES Il GENERAL CHARACTER OF BUILDING STONES The value of a building stone may be briefly expressed as depending upon two causes 1st Its physical constitution and 2d…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 19 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 13 Experiments made with stones of the same variety and of similar chemical composition and specific gravity have demonstrated this opinion to be correct It is clearly shown…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 20 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 14 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES Thus while carbonate of lime in its various forms is commonly regarded as a readily perishable material some of the more compact varieties of marble and limestone…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 21 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 15 granite is represented by 1800 not quite double that of Portland stone but it is said if used as a street paving it will outlast six sets…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 22 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 16 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES magnesia the more crystalline and better they are in every respect Though properly coming under this head we have thought best to consider in a separate section…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 23 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 17 ce Loreign Ingredients By this term is meant those substances present in a stone but not essential to it Thus marbles carbonate of lime of a crystalline…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 24 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners yd ae NOTES ON BUILDING STONES The occurrence of fragments of limestone or other calcareous matter occasion the destruction of bricks owing to the formation of caustic lime during the burning When…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 25 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 19 with variations of temperature and humidity but finally disappearing entirely sometimes in the second year after building If however the walls become saturated with moisture as by…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 26 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 20 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES TABLE II Weights actually borne upon the square foot and square inch in certain buildings Pressure oneach Pressure on each Buildings square footin square inch in pounds…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 27 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 21 _ different qualities of that from the same quarry it is not considered prudent ordinarily to subject a stone to more than oneeighth of its crushing weight…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 28 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 22 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES ment as Horsford has shown is scarcely ever at rest from bending and warping under the influence of the varying temperature of its different sides The disintegrating…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 29 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 23 The continued action of this solvent may gradually pro duce an effect it probably being more considerable as the stone is more porous Water holding carbonic acid…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 30 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 24 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES magnesia as our marbles limestones etc producing sul phate of lime and magnesia As coal seldom containes less than onehalf per cent of sulphur and frequently one…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 31 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 95 _ liability to corrosion under the projecting eaves and mouldings and at such sheltered parts of the stone surface as are usually covered with soot and dust…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 32 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 26 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES For example Caen stone endures well in Lower Nor mandy but decays rapidly in Havre and London The front of Buckingham Palace is constructed of a variety…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 33 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES oF determining the real value of the quarry as a source of building material To ascertain the probable average quality of the stone a number of examinations must…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 34 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 28 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES The brownish stains of iron may be present and oxyd of iron and pyrites filling cavities and fissures together with other indications of a poor and variable…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 35 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners NOTES ON BUILDING STONES 99 force required to crush them The means resorted to for this purpose need not be given in detail Suffice it to say that the apparatus consists essentially…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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Image 36 of Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners 30 NOTES ON BUILDING STONES In Europe experiments of the kind mentioned have been largely made both for private purposes and for different governments In the United States researches of this and…- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners - Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
About this Item
Title
- Paper on building stones : to the New Capitol Commissioners
Names
- Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom), 1834-1903.
- New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners.
- YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Albany : Joel Munsell, 1868.
Headings
- - Building stones
- - New York State Capitol (Albany, N.Y.)
- - Public buildings--New York (State)--Albany
- - Public architecture--New York (State)--Albany
Notes
- - The statement of responsibility precedes the phrase "to the New Capitol Commissioners" on t.p.
- - With: Report on building stones / by James Hall. Albany : J. Munsell, 1868. Bound together subsequent to publication.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 41 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- TN951.A6
- TN950 .P84
- YA 15434
Library of Congress Control Number
- 06016896
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- online text
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Contributor
- New York (State). Office of the New Capitol Commissioners
- Porter, Charles H. (Charles Hogeboom)
- Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)