This black-and-white historical photograph depicts the jagged, skeletal ruins of a masonry building. In the lower-left foreground, two men in dark suits and hats stand atop a large mound of light-colored rubble, while two other men in light-colored shirts and hats sit on the debris below them. The central focus is a series of tall, vertical ruins, including a high, crumbling brick wall on the left and several freestanding, rectangular brick pillars that rise into the sky. To the right of these pillars, a dark, skeletal framework of metal beams and vertical posts remains standing, stripped of its exterior walls. Patches of pale, flat ground are visible in the lower-right foreground. The background is a bright, washed-out sky, against which the uneven, broken silhouettes of the walls and beams are sharply defined. Small, faint text in the lower-right corner of the image reads "MILES BROS."