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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. South elevation of building] – Historic Photograph Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. South elevation of building], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. South elevation of building], 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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Drawn in ink and graphite on paper, this sheet shows the south face of a building as a flat, measured view without perspective. Architects used elevations like this to fix proportions, window placement, and ornament before construction began. The record does not name the structure, but it comes from the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering drawings, a collection that includes plans for the institution's own buildings on Capitol Hill. Working drawings like this one show design decisions that finished walls and later photographs no longer reveal.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,033 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134689

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