Reading Room (Fifth) Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress – Historic Photograph Print
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A window into the past: Reading Room (Fifth) Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Reading Room (Fifth) Floor Plan, Annex Building, Library of Congress
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The fifth-floor plan of the Annex Building, the Library of Congress's sprawling 1897 structure across Independence Avenue from the Capitol, shows how the reading rooms were laid out for public use. The Annex, designed by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz, was built to hold the library's growing collections, and its floors were arranged around reading spaces, stacks and offices. Plans like this one were drawn to guide staff and show where each function sat within the building's long, heavily ornamented interior. Looking closely reveals how a working library was organized before modern digital catalogs changed how readers found books.
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,266 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185989 |
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