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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Basement plan, D series] – Antique Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Basement plan, D series], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Basement plan, D series], 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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The title places this drawing within the Library of Congress's own building records, as a basement plan from a numbered D series. Plans like this were working documents that fixed the location of rooms, stairs, vaults and mechanical spaces before construction reached those levels. The Library's main building, the Thomas Jefferson Building, went up on Capitol Hill between 1890 and 1897, and drawings of this kind would have guided work on its lowest floor. The use of ink and gouache, an opaque watercolor, gives the sheet a finished look, the kind architects used when presenting plans to clients and officials.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink and gouache on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134600

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