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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Section on west and east center axis, A series] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Section on west and east center axis, A series], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Section on west and east center axis, A series], 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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This drawing cuts through the Library of Congress along its central east-west axis, showing the building's internal layout instead of its exterior. Ink and gouache give it crisp linework and tinted washes, the hand-rendered style of architectural presentation drawings. The Library's main building on Capitol Hill, the Thomas Jefferson Building, was completed in 1897 after years of construction, and sections like this one helped explain how its reading rooms, galleries, and stacks were arranged around the central axis.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink and gouache on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,432 × 5,128 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134595

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