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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of ground floor] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of ground floor], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of ground floor], 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 window into the past: [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of ground floor], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This is a ground-floor plan of the Library of Congress, drawn in ink with color washes on paper and preserved as a reference copy. Plans like this show how rooms, corridors, and stairs were arranged on the lowest level, which matters for a building meant to hold and move large collections. The Library's main building, the Thomas Jefferson Building, opened in 1897 after Congress authorized it in 1886, and its layout was designed to handle a growing national collection. The record does not give a date for this drawing, so its exact place in that building's history is uncertain.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink and color ink on paper.
GenreReference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,370 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138048

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