Design for Jefferson Building – Vintage Photo Print
![Design for Jefferson Building, [ca. 1888] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e573ecf9c75-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Design for Jefferson Building. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Design for Jefferson Building
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The key plan on this sheet lays out the first story of the Jefferson Building, the structure that became the first home of the Library of Congress's new complex in Washington. Its architects, John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, developed the design in the late 1880s, after Congress authorized a separate building to relieve the crowded Capitol. A key plan like this one served as an index, showing how the numbered sections of the larger drawings fit together so readers could locate each room. The building opened in 1897, and this sheet offers a useful view of how its interior was meant to work before construction began.
| Created / published | [ca. 1888] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings Reproductions 1880-1890.Plans 1880-1890.Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Key plan, First story - S159. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,635 × 2,568 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-201888 |
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