First Floor and Basement Plans, Washington, D.C. – Antique Print
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A window into the past: First Floor and Basement Plans, Washington, D.C., preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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First Floor and Basement Plans, Washington, D.C.
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The drawing lays out two levels of a single building, the first floor above ground and the basement below, so it records how a library's public rooms and its storage or service spaces were arranged on paper before construction. Plans like this were the working documents for architects, builders and the library staff who had to plan shelving, reading rooms and circulation desks. Library buildings in the nation's capital from the late 1800s and early 1900s often grew out of debates over how to house growing book collections safely and efficiently. Looking at the basement layout alongside the first floor shows how much of a library's work happened out of public view.
| Original scan | 2,695 × 4,249 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15570_Firstfloorandbasementfloorplan |
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