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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of first story, site plan] – Historic Reproduction

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of first story, site plan], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of first story, site plan], 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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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Plan of first story, site plan] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Unlike the views of the library's rooms and facades elsewhere on the board, this ink drawing is a plan of the first story and site, showing how walls, corridors, and stairways were arranged at ground level. Plans like this were working tools for architects and engineers, so they reveal the building's structure and circulation as much as its appearance. The main library building, the Thomas Jefferson Building, opened on Capitol Hill in 1897, designed in the Beaux-Arts style by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. Its layout follows a formal, symmetrical logic that is well worth noticing when reading a drawing like this one.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
GenreReference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,348 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138028

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