• Michel Roux-Spitz (architect)
• Unknown (photographer)
• Baudet, Donon & Roussel (photographic studio)

Bibliothèque Nationale Versailles - 1933-1934

1933-1934

Album PH1986:0900.11 comprises 79 photographs of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Versailles, France, designed by Michel Roux-Spitz. Photographs include views of an elevation of the building, a sketch, models, views of the building site, exterior views of the building, the entrance doors, interior views showing the set of shelves, the reading room, the staircase, hallways, and the basement.

Gelatin silver prints

album: 37,3 x 33,4 x 7,1 cm comps. (smallest): 16,4 x 22,2 cm comps. (largest): 24,1 x 35,5 cm

PH1986:0900.11

• exterior views
• interior views

- Album has green, red and gold moiré pattern coloured paper cover-boards and green and black leather bookbinding with gold gilding and lettering. Photographs are glued to yellowish paper pages. There are no typewritten labels in this album. Photographer(s) are mainly unknown except for photographs PH1986:0900.11.47 and PH1986:0900.11.50 which bear a caption mentioning the photographers Baudet, Donon & Roussel.

labelled, imprinted and dated

Versailles France

• architecture

• façade
• staircase
• elevation (building division)
• building site
• hallway
• entrance doors
• shelves
• library
• sketch
• model

Contient:

• PH1986:0900.11:058, Exterior view of the Annexe de la Bibliothèque nationale, Versailles, 1933