Construction site taken by French photographer Louis Lafon in the 1880s. The urbanization projects of nineteenth-century France called on photography to record all stages of construction. This building's framework integrated modern techniques of iron and steel-frame construction with traditional materials like brick masonry.

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Construction Site, Louis Lafon, 1880

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