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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Site plan] – Vintage Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Site plan], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — antique lithograph
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Site plan], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Antique lithograph from the Washington DC 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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Step back in time with [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Site plan], an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This drawing is a site plan of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., showing how the building and its grounds sit on the city's Capitol Hill. Site plans like this one record a building's footprint, its position relative to streets and neighboring structures, and the layout of the surrounding land, which made them essential to planning and construction. The Library's collections had outgrown the Capitol by the late 1800s, and the institution's move to its own building across from the Capitol, the Thomas Jefferson Building, marked a major change in its history. The drawing is a lithograph, a printing method that let architects reproduce plans for presentation and publication.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : lithograph on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190490

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