Plan d'un bureau du poids public, with elevations and section – Historic Reproduction
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A window into the past: Plan d'un bureau du poids public, with elevations and section, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Plan d'un bureau du poids public, with elevations and section
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Few buildings tied a town's market to its tax collectors as directly as the public weigh-house, and this sheet lays one out in full with a floor plan, elevations and a cross-section, so a builder could read the whole structure from a single page. Official scales gave merchants and buyers a shared standard for settling disputes over grain, wool and other bulk goods, which made the weighing place a point of civic trust as well as commerce. Drawings like this one, with their measured lines and lettered details, show how such buildings were meant to be arranged and checked.
| Original scan | 3,020 × 3,442 px · prints to 10 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12635_HallescentralesdeParisameacute |
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