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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Second story plan, A series] – Historic Reproduction

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Second story plan, A series], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Second story plan, A 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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A window into the past: [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Second story plan, A series], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike the many views of the Library of Congress that show its famous facade, this drawing records the second story as a floor plan, with its rooms and corridors laid out in ink and gouache. The main building, now called the Thomas Jefferson Building, was designed by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz and opened in 1897, and its upper floors housed reading rooms and book stacks central to the institution's work. Plans like this guided builders and recorded how the architects arranged a complex program for a national library, which makes them useful to historians who study how the building was meant to function.

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 × 1,472 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134596

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