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[Library of Congress (Congressional Library Building") D.C. View of stair hall]" – Historic Photograph Print

[Library of Congress (Congressional Library Building") D.C. View of stair hall]", and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress (Congressional Library Building") D.C. View of stair hall]", and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Library of Congress collection.

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Few spaces in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building show its ambitions as plainly as the stair hall, and this graphite drawing on tracing paper captures it as a working design. The building, begun in the 1890s and opened in 1897, was designed by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz in the Beaux-Arts manner, with interiors meant to match the stature of a national library. Drawings like this one, from the library's architecture and engineering collection, show how the architects planned movement through the building before the marble and decoration were installed.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
MediumADE - UNIT 2446, no. 8 (A size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
Genre1 drawing : graphite on tracing paper.
NotesFor information see Architecture
SubjectsDesign
Original scan1,536 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138017

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