Library of Congress, Annex, plans for one of the two reading rooms – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures Library of Congress, Annex, plans for one of the two reading rooms in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Library of Congress, Annex, plans for one of the two reading rooms
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This drawing shows the planned layout for one of the two reading rooms in the Library of Congress Annex, the building the Library developed in the 1930s to ease crowding in its main Capitol Hill quarters. Dated May 20, 1937, it survives as a photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by J. Rowland Snyder, a form of copy that let architectural plans be circulated and studied without handling the original sheets. The Annex, later named the John Adams Building, was meant to give readers and staff room the older building could no longer provide, so plans like this one show the Library's effort to balance public study space with the storage of its growing collections.
| Created / published | 1937 May 20. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings Reproductions 1930-1940.Photomechanical prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Reproduction of drawing by J. Rowland Snyder. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 6,365 × 5,158 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-148194 |
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