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[Plan of the second floor of the White House] – Antique Print

[Plan of the second floor of the White House], [between 1889 and 1906] — historic photograph
[Plan of the second floor of the White House], [between 1889 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the White House 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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A cyanotype copy of the second-floor plan of the White House is a rare survival of the executive mansion's interior layout from the years between 1889 and 1906. Cyanotypes were a cheap, reliable way to copy architectural drawings, producing white lines on a deep blue ground, so offices and builders could circulate plans without redrawing them by hand. The dates place the sheet just before the major 1902 renovation, when McKim, Mead & White reorganized the building's rooms and added working space, making this plan a useful record of how the upper floor was arranged before those changes.

Created / published[between 1889 and 1906]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreFloor plans 1880-1910.Architectural drawings Reproductions 1880-1910.Cyanotypes 1880-1910.
SubjectsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)--1880-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 940 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162187

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