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[Automobile dealership for Semmes Motor Company, Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Elevations] – Vintage Wall Art

[Automobile dealership for Semmes Motor Company, Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Elevations], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)" — historic drawing
[Automobile dealership for Semmes Motor Company, Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Elevations], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)". Historic drawing from the Automobiles 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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This elevation drawing shows the front face of an automobile dealership built for the Semmes Motor Company on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest in Washington, D.C. Drawn flat and to scale, it records the building's exterior design without perspective, so the proportions, window bays, and entrances can be compared directly. The graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper reflects how architects of the period worked, with tracing paper allowing revisions and copies to be made from a master sheet. Showrooms like this one appeared along the avenue as automobile ownership grew in the early twentieth century, when dealers needed buildings that displayed cars as prominently as shops displayed goods.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)"
Medium1 drawing : graphite and color pencil on tracing paper.
GenreTitle devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Waggaman & Ray Archive.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-209004

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