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Library of Congress. Plans and Design. Building for the Library of Congress, side elevation, no. VII – Vintage Photo Print

Library of Congress. Plans and Design. Building for the Library of Congress, side elevation, no. VII — historic photograph
Library of Congress. Plans and Design. Building for the Library of Congress, side elevation, no. VII. Historic photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures Library of Congress. Plans and Design. Building for the Library of Congress, side elevation, no. VII in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Library of Congress. Plans and Design. Building for the Library of Congress, side elevation, no. VII

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This photograph reproduces one of a numbered set of side elevation drawings, no. VII, for the building the Library of Congress would occupy in Washington. The record dates it to November 1886, a year when Congress was moving toward a separate home for a library that had long been crowded into the Capitol. Elevations like this one let planners and builders study the exterior proportions and details of the design before construction began. Such drawings show how the architects intended the long side walls and ornament to look from the street.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1886 Nov.
SubjectsPhoto of architectural drawing. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Architecture--Drawings...; DC, Wash.--LC--Construction; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134770

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