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Architectural drawing for a fireproof repository for the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.

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Architectural drawing for a fireproof repository for the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.

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Presentation drawing showing fireproof repository, vault, and case as plan, elevation, and section.
UNIT title devised.
Inscriptions on recto: "Design of a Fireproof Repository of Papers for the Treasury of the United States." "Section, exhibiting the Arangement [sic] of the Cases along the North Wall f the room." "Vault." "Ground Plan." "Thosse parts which are colored brown, show the places of the bases containing Papers." "Section, showing the arrangement of the Cases, along the middle of the Room." "The Honorable the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States." "B. Henry Latrobe, furveyor of the public Bldgs of the United States, Washington. April 27. 1805."
Lined with paper.
Reference copy available in LOT 4249 (R).
Transfer; Architect of the Capitol; 1872.
Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1805
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Contributors

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
United States. Department of the Treasury, client
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Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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