Architectural Design drawings

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The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40Thousand sketches (referred to in additional than 3, 900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with many dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are mainly for sites and structures within the U.S. (especially Washington, D.C.), in addition to Europe and Mexico. American designers and architectural firms produced the majority of the images. Building types are the U . s . States Capitol and also the Library of Congress to personal homes and hamburger restaurants.

Functions by distinguished figures within the good reputation for architecture, design, and engineering within the U . s . States are very well symbolized including Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William Thornton, Stephen Hallet, Thomas Ustick Walter, Montgomery C. Meigs, Cass Gilbert, and An Artist. Extensive archives are for sale to Jesse H. Drayer, Arthur B. Heaton, Iron Craftsmen, A.B. Mullett &lifier Co., Waggaman &lifier Ray, and Waddy B. Wood. The Library of Congress Prints &lifier Photographs Division acquired these sketches chiefly through donations and is constantly on the add new material.