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Architectural drawing for an art gallery, Washington, D.C. Front elevation – Historic Print

Architectural drawing for an art gallery, Washington, D.C. Front elevation, and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic photograph
Architectural drawing for an art gallery, Washington, D.C. Front elevation, and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Architectural drawing for an art gallery, Washington, D.C. Front elevation comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A front elevation shows a building as it would look from the street, with each window, cornice, and doorway drawn flat and to scale, so this sheet records the face a Washington gallery was meant to present to the public. The drawing is in graphite and belongs to the Waddy B. Wood Archive, a collection of architectural material gathered by a Washington architect. The subject is a gallery or museum in the city during the 1930s, a decade when the federal capital was adding major cultural buildings, the National Gallery of Art among them. Working elevations like this guided contractors, so the pencil lines hold the decisions of architects and clients.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 item : graphite ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
GenreUNIT title devised. Forms part of Waddy B. Wood Archive. Transfer; Smithsonian Institution; 1980; (DLC/PP-1980:302). Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
SubjectsGalleries & museums--Washington (D.C.)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190282

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