Transverse section of a library building with bookshelves – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Transverse section of a library building with bookshelves comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Transverse section of a library building with bookshelves
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A cross-cut drawing of a library building, showing its floors stacked one above another with rows of shelving filling each level, makes the internal arrangement of the book stacks the main subject. Architects produced sections like this to show how daylight, floor loads and circulation worked together, and they were especially useful in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when multi-story library stacks were being designed to hold ever-growing collections. Looking closely, the viewer can read the relationship between reading rooms and the storage floors beneath them, which is the kind of planning decision a plan view alone would hide.
| Original scan | 2,572 × 3,196 px · prints to 9 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15577_Transversesection |
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