Principal floor plan with numbered rooms and staircase – Antique Wall Art
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Principal floor plan with numbered rooms and staircase comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Principal floor plan with numbered rooms and staircase
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A principal floor plan, with its rooms numbered and the staircase marked, shows how a building was laid out for those who used it day to day, rather than how it looked from the street. Plans like this were a standard part of architectural drawings for libraries, where the arrangement of reading rooms, stacks, and circulation space determined how well staff could supervise a collection and how easily patrons could move through it. The numbered rooms suggest a key or schedule kept alongside the drawing, so that each space could be identified and described in specifications. Such drawings are especially useful to researchers tracing how library design changed as collections grew and reading habits shifted.
| Original scan | 2,434 × 3,967 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15578_Principalfloor |
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