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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. First story plan] – Historic Reproduction

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. First story plan], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. First story plan], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Library of Congress collection.

(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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A first-story plan like this one is a working drawing, showing how rooms, corridors and entrances were arranged before a building went up. Its ink, watercolor and wash rendering reflects a late nineteenth-century practice, when presentation drawings had to persuade clients and guide builders at the same time. The Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, completed in 1897 after years of planning, is the institution's best-known landmark in Washington, and plans of this kind show how much attention went into public circulation and access. The record gives few specifics about this sheet's author or exact date, so its role in the building's design history is best read as a general example of period architectural practice.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
GenreReference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,316 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138061

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