Design For Democracy :  200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives
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U.S.S. Schooner Grampus  
"Draft of the U.S.S. Schooner 'Grampus,` building at Navy Yard, Washington, DC"
"Draft of the U.S.S. Schooner ‘Grampus,' building at Navy Yard, Washington, DC"

Ohio River Bridge at Cincinnati

"Plan of one Arch (the highest) of the Bridges for the Ohio River at Louisville and Cincinnati and of the Front View of the Entrance" (No. 3)

"Plan of one Arch (the highest) of the Bridges for the Ohio River at Louisvill and Cincinnati and of the Front View of the Entrance"(No.3)

Robert Mills`s West Point
 
West Point Library and Science Building

West Point Library and Science Building

Robert E. Lee`s Fort Macon, North Carolina
 
"Map of the Site of Ft. Macon with the Works Projected for its preservation"

Map of the Site of Ft. Macon with the Works Projected for its preservation

Rillieux`s Steam Sugar Apparatus, Patent Drawings
 
Steam Sugar Apparatus

Steam Sugar Apparatus Patent Drawings
Steam Sugar Apparatus

Steam Sugar Apparatus Patent Drawing

William Strickland Designs
 
Design for the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia

Design for the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia
Plan for the War Department Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, Washington, DC

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Citations for left side images:
Drawing of the Hull for the U.S.S. Constellation and U.S.S. Congress
Designed by Joshua Humphreys and Josiah Fox, et al., 1795
Pencil and ink on paper
14" x 18"
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Bureau of Ships

"Metinicus [sic] Light House"
Designed by Alexander Parris
Drawn by Brown and Hastings, engineers, March 28, 1848
Watercolor on paper
18 1/2" x 22 3/4"
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Coast Guard

Sketch for the Great Seal of the United States
By Francis Hopkinson, May 10, 1780
Pencil and ink on paper
7 3/8" x 6 3/8"
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention

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