To find books that feature images of plans of a specific building or landscape, or by a specific architect or designer, search online catalogs by subject under architect, landscape architect, firm, building or site name.

• Pathfinder
• Melvyl

UCB & UC DIGITAL RESOURCES available to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.

1. AccuNet/AP - UC Multimedia Archive of photos, text, audio and graphics
http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/
2. AMICO Library - UCB Only. Documents approx. 100,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. May include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views and other related multimedia. New works are added annually.
http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/amico.html
3. Architecture Visual Resources Library UCB, Dept. of Architecture -
SPIRO - image database, UCB Architecture Visual Resources Library
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARCH/
4. ARTstor - UCB Only
ARTstor contains 500,000+ images. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and visual culture. Collections include: Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch,The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection, Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian Institution. and many major museums.
User Guide - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/artstorguide.html
5. California Heritage Collection - An online archive of 28,000+ images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Online Archive of California, a compilation of finding aids, or guides, to archival collections at more than 30 institutions.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/CalHeritage/
6. CDL Image Demonstrator: Allows users to search and view a collection of art and architecture images drawn from museum and art collections. Includes: Amico, Saskia, Museums & Online Archive of California images (MOAC). [Available to general public] and Tebtunis Papyri - Images of papyrus documents from ancient Tebtunis, Egypt.
http://www.cdlib.org/collect/index.html
7. Environmental Design Archives, UCB, College of Environmental Design
http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
8. Grove Art Online - UCB Only Contains articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography, from prehistory to the present day. Includes links to other related web sites.
http://www.groveart.com/
9. Online Archive of California, (UC, California Digital Library) A core component of the California Digital Library, the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital resource providing access to manuscripts, photographs, and art. The OAC includes a searchable database of "finding aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles. Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and financial records, photographs and other pictorial items, maps, architectural and engineering records, artwork, scientific logbooks, electronic records, sound recordings, oral histories artifacts and ephemera. Use the UC Berkeley Archival Finding Aids
http://www.oac.cdlib.org
10. SunSite Digital Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
11. UCSB Digital Image Archives - This list ranges from highly controlled and standardized (e.g. museum websites) to some-guy-with-a-scanner. Some require user license agreements, UC and/or the California Digital Library (CDL). Read the site's copyright information, especially before downloading the image in any way.
http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/resources/onlinearchives.php
12. Videos - Environmental Design Videotapes in the Media Resources Center
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EnvidesignVid.html

• Architecture Indexes & Abstracts
• Landscape Architecture Indexes & Abstracts

ARCHIVAL PHOTO COLLECTIONS

1. Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association
http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/
2. Berkeley Historical Society
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/
3. California Historical Society North Baker Research Library
http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/northbaker_research.html
4. California Museum of Photography (UCR)
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/
5. California State Archives
http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm
6. New York Public Libary - Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
7. Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room
http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/Seasonal/Sections/oakhr.html
8. Online Archive of California, (UC, California Digital Library) - UC Berkeley Archival Finding Aids
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/ead/ead/berkeley
9. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Library
http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/safrhdd.html
10. San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection
http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfphoto.htm
11. Society of California Pioneers Library Photography Collection
http://www.californiapioneers.org/lh/
12. UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

1. David Rumsey Collection - use View Collections to search. The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 10,000+ maps online of rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
2. Earth Sciences and Maps Library, UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
3. Maps Worldwide - good for international aerial photos
http://www.mapsworldwide.com
4. Plat maps, also called fire insurance maps, show a variety of details, including actual lot boundaries, special uses, building materials and building footprints. For a bibliography on using fire insurance maps in research, see Fire insurance plans.
-----. Digital Sanborn maps,
1867-1970 (UMI) -UCB Only Site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. The maps "are large-scale plans containing...information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers."
-----. Fire insurance maps (UC Berkeley, Library) Links to indexes & description of fire insurance maps.
5. SpaceShots Images - national and international satellite images for sale.
http://www.spaceshots.com/
6. Terraserver.com
http://www.terraserver.com/
7. USGS Earthshots
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

1. ADAM - The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
http://adam.ac.uk/index.html
2. The Amazing Picture Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
3. American Landscape and Architectural design, 1850-1920 - Collection of lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920, representing the work of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models, private estates from all over the United States through contemporary views of their houses and gardens (including features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
4. The Ancient City of Athens
http://www.stoa.org/athens/
5. Arcaid
http://www.arcaid.co.uk/samples/index.html
6. ArchINFORM
http://www.archinform.net
7. Architectural Drawing Collection - University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/
8. Art Images for College Teaching - AICT. Images are in categories: ancient, medieval, renaissance, baroque, 18th -20th century, and non-western. The works documented by the images contained in this website have been indexed according to their inclusion in a number of widely used undergraduate art history survey textbooks. Each image page includes a Textbook Reference entry. (Please be aware that, in accordance with copyright restrictions, the AICT images are not the actual textbook illustrations; rather, the user will find here very similar images documenting the same works, with variations such as details or alternative angles of view clearly noted). Includes the list of textbooks referenced.
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html
9. Asian Historical Architecture
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com
10. Boston University, Mugar Memorial Library
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/
11. California State Library - Picture Catalog - indexes selected images in the Library's rich collections of historic photographs, prints, drawings, and sheet music.
http://www.library.ca.gov/
12. Cities and Buildings Image Archive University of Washington, includes a nations index.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/index.html
13. Digital Imaging Project - Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern. Includes lists of architects, buildings by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
14. Digital Image Catalog - links to California Heritage Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageCatalog/
15. Digital Librarian: Architecture and Historic Preservation - Huge list with links.
http://www.digital-librarian.com/architecture.html
16. Frank Lloyd Wright by PBS was created as a companion piece to the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick profiling the life and work of FLW. The first section is an overview of Wright's most famous works (e.g., Oak Park, Taliesin, Falling Waters, and Guggenheim). Wright's drawings and photos are included.
http://www.pbs.org/flw/
17. Great Buildings Online
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html
18. Historic American Building Survey - HABS/HAER
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html
19. Images on the Net - MIT, Rotch Library. Go to Categories - and click on architecture
http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/image-collections/index.html
20. Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture Mit, Rotch Library. Sites, architects and geographical indexes. Selected images of New England architecture from the Kidder Smith Slide Archive by G.E. Kidder Smith for The architecture of the United States / G.E. Kidder Smith, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1981.
EnvDesign NA705 .S578 Reference V.1-3 (1981)
21. Library of Congress
- American Memory - Library of Congress collections of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history.
http://rs6.loc.gov/amhome.html
22. Perseus--Art and Archaeology Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project, Tufts University. A digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. Seach the Architecture Catalog by site, period, architect, region, and type.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html
23. PSA Profiles of Selected Architects - an independent company, presenting the works of contemporary architects and landscape architects in print and digital format. Contains web profiles for world, American, New york, and California listings.
http://www.psa-publishers.com/
24. Society of Architectural Historians - Net Resources see Images list of links. Image Exchange - includes a World Survey of images
http://www.sah.org/
25. Smithsonian Institute - American Architecture and Garden - includes links to online exhibits and images.
http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/american/architecture_and_gardens/
26. Structurae - International Database and Gallery of Structures.
http://www.structurae.de/en/index.php
27. THAIS - Images of Egyptian, Greek, Islamic, and Romanesque architecture indexed by Location, Subject and Period.
http://www.thais.it/architettura/default_uk.htm
28. World Wide Arts Resources, Corp. Links to selected sites.
http://wwar.com
29. WebMuseum, Paris -- Search Indexes for Artists, Galleries and Exhibitions, Museums-- search by museum name, country, medium, art historical period, or type.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
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• AltaVista Image Search
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
• Google Image Search Advanced image search recommended. Clicking on the thumbnail enlarges images and the Web page address in the bottom frame.
http://www.google.com/
• Yahoo Image Gallery
http://images.search.yahoo.com/
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1. America preserved: a checklist of historic buildings, structures, and sites recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. 60th anniversary ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1995. Indicates types of illustration and documentation included in records for historic buildings, neighborhoods, and sites, e.g., photogrammetric images, measured drawings, etc. California HABS information available on microfiche 5224.
EnvDesign E159. A37 1995 Reference
2. American architectural masterpieces: an anthology comprising masterpieces of architecture in the United States, American architecture of the twentieth Century. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992. Includes black and white views, plans, elevations and details.
EnvDesign fNA705.A485.1992 Reference
3. American architecture of the twentieth century: a series of photographs and measured drawings of modern, civic commercial and industrial buildings. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1927. Contains plans, elevations, details and views in oversized format.
EnvDesign fNA712.R4 Reference
4. An anthology of houses, edited and introduced by Monica Pidgeon and Theo Crosby. New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1960]. Contains 310 photos, plane & diagrams of 50 modernist houses.
EnvDesign NA7126 .P5
5. Architectural details 2003 : annual selected edition from Detail review of architecture. Munich: Edition Detail - Institut fur Internationale Architektur-Dokumentation Amsterdam ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2004. Annual compilation of drawings from Detail magazine.
EnvDesign NA2840.A74 2004
6. Architectural Records in the San Francisco Bay Area: A guide to research. California Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records, Waverly B. Lowell, editor. New York: Garland, 1988. For an inventory of the historic architectural records of the San Francisco Bay Area and their locations.
EnvDesign Design NA2125.C22.S2631.1988 Reference Desk
7. Architectural representation handbook : traditional and digital techniques for graphic communication / Paul Laseau. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2000.
EnvDesign NA2714.L37 2000
8. Architecture in detail series. Similar to the GA series, each monograph examines a contemporary building.
Pathfinder search - se Architecture in Detail to retrieve list of books published in this series.
9. The architecture of western gardens : a design history from the Renaissance to the present day. Architettura dei giardini d'Occidente. English /edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot. 1st MIT Press ed. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1991. (See also The History of Garden Design)
EnvDesign SB466.E9.A7313 1991 Shelved:copy 1 noncirc. Library has: 2 copies
10. Blueprints: twenty-six extraordinary structures by Christopher Gray. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. A fireside book. Photographs and blueprints of 16 buildings and a few other structures. Scale not always apparent.
EnvDesign fT379.G73 1981
11. Building footprints: a selection of forty-five building plans, all drawn at the same scale. Raleigh, N.C.: School of Design, 1959. Ground floor plans of a variety of well-known structures in the world.
EnvDesign Design NA2300. N6 v.9:1 Periodical Stacks
12. Building skeletons: an investigation of ten buildings. Raleigh, N.C.: School of Design, 1967. Drawings of structural systems for the Farnsworth House, Crown Hall, Richards Medical Research Building, Student Center MIT, Tiber Island Apartments, N.C. Mutual Insurance Building, Earth Sciences Building, Lever House, Pirelli Building and Chase Manhattan Bank.
EnvDesign NA2300.N6 v.17:1 Periodical Stacks
13. Comparative analysis of 20th-century houses, by Hideaki Haraguchi. London: Academy Editions, 1988. Axonometric drawings of important houses.
EnvDesign NA7125.H381 1988
14. Contemporary masterworks, ed. by Colin Naylor. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. Contemporary arts series. Photographs, essays, bibliographies and occasionally plans for approximately 100 "classic" buildings. Separate sections for works of art, photography and design also included.
EnvDesign N6490.C65675 1991 Ref Desk
15. Details of modern architecture, by Edward R. Ford. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Details for numerous buildings designed by Sullivan, Le Corbusier, Wright, Rudolph Schindler, etc.
EnvDesign NA2840 . F67.1990 Reference
16. Domus Map Guides - Included in Domus Magazine. These are thematic guides to architectural landmarks in selected locations.
http://libraries.mit.edu/rotch/architecture/domus.html
17. Drawings of great buildings. Edited by Werner Blaser. Basel: Birkhauser, 1983. Contains 180 orthogonal drawings showing plan and elevation combined with sections of great buildings in the history of architecture.
EnvDesign NA2706.U6.D72.1983 Reference
18. Encyclopedia of gardens: history and design. editor, Candice A. Shoemaker. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 3 vols. Illustrations, some plans.
EnvDesign SB465.E63 2001 Reference desk
19. Encyclopedia of world architecture, by Henri Stierlin. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1979. 2 vol. Color photos of famous buildings with scaled sections, elevations, and plans primarily arranged by style and place.
EnvDesign NA200. S74.1979 Reference Desk
20. GA document. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita. No. 1 (1980)-- . Detailed drawings, scaled plans and photos of projects.
EnvDesign NA7126.G3 Periodical Stacks
21. Global architecture. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita. No.1 (1970)-- . Outstanding visual documentation in oversized format for major modern and contemporary buildings. Index nos. 1-67, 1970-85. Indexed in Avery Index.
EnvDesign fNA6.J3.G12 Reserve, with additional circulating copies in the Folio Stacks
22. Global architecture detail. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita. No.1(1976)- 5(1977). Comprehensive detail drawings in a large format for major contemporary buildings. Indexed in ARCH via Melvyl.
EnvDesign fNA2835.G12 Non-Circulating
23. Great architecture of the world. John Julius Norwich, ed. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1975.
EnvDesign Design NA200.G761.1975
24. The Great buildings collection by Kevin Matthews.[CD-ROM] Eugene, Ore.: Artifice, Inc., 2000.
EnvDesign NA203. M38 2000 compu/d Reserve
25. Handy key to your "National Geographics." Subject and picture locator. East Aurora, N.Y. s.n.
EnvDesign G1.N315 Index. Library has: BOUND 1975(12)
26. Historic American Buildings Survey. California. (HABS) New York: Garland, 1980. Reproductions of photographs and drawings of the Historic American Buildings Survey for California. Also available on microfiche 5224, or search the HABS index. To search for HABS for other states in the catalogs type: f ti Historic American Buildings Survey [state]. Copies of photos and drawings available from Library of Congress.
EnvDesign NA730.C2.H54.1980 v. 1-4 Reference
27. History of garden design, the western tradition from the Renaissance to the present day, ed. by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Over 600 illustrations, including many scaled plans.
EnvDesign SB465.H673 1991
28. Huellas de edificios; una coleccion de plantas de edificios dibujadas en la misma escala = building footprints; a selection on ground-plans drawn to the same scale, by Eduardo Sacriste. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962. 2 vol. Footprints of historically significant buildings, excluding dwellings, drawn to a scale 1 cm-2m and reduced proportionally to 1:2. Plates identified and described in vol. 1.
EnvDesign fNA2760.S2 Permanent Reserve
29. Illustrated atlas of the world's great buildings: a history of world architecture from the classical perfection of the Parthenon to the breathtaking grandeur of the skyscraper. London: Salamander, 1980. Each chapter covers a single building style with corresponding scale drawing.
EnvDesign Design NA200.B131.1980 Reference
30. Illustration index. 4th ed. / Marsha C. Appel. Metuchen, N.J.:Scarecrow Press, 1980.
EnvDesign N7525 .V3 1980 Reference
31. Illustration index V, 1977-1981; Illustration index VI, 1982-1986 Illustration index VII, 1987-1991; Illustration index VIII, 1992-1996 / by Marsha C. Appel. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
EnvDesign N7525 .V3 1984 Reference
32. Image-based research : a sourcebook for qualitative researchers / edited by Jon Prosser. London ; Bristol, PA:Falmer Press, 1998.
EnvDesign GN347 .I43 1998
33. In detail : single family houses : concepts, planning, construction / Christian Schittich (ed.); [translated from the German by Peter Green and Elizabeth Schwaiger]. Berlin: Birkhauser, c2000.
EnvDesign NA7550 .M67 2000
34. Index to italian architecture: a guide to key monuments and reproduction sources. Compiled by Edward H. Teague. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. *Provides citations to illustrations of approx 1,800 works of Italian architecture, planning and landscape sites. Includes works from most historical periods and styles.
EnvDesign Design NA111.T4.1992 Reference Desk
35. Introduction to landscape architecture, by Michael Laurie. 2nd ed. New York: Elsevier, 1986.
EnvDesign Design Design SB472.L381 1986 Reserve
36. Italian Renaissance: sixty measured drawings with details from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. NY: Architectural Book Publishing Co.,[19-?] Oversized plates of details. Index to buildings in Vol. 1.
EnvDesign fNA7755.I75
37. Key buildings of the twentieth century, by David Dunster. NY: Rizzoli, 1985. v.1--Houses 1900-1944; v. 2--Houses 1945-1989. Photographs and plans of houses designed by famous architects.
EnvDesign NA680. D86.1985 Reference Desk
38. Key monuments of the history of architecture, by Henry A. Millon. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964. Black and white photos with scaled plans and sections for each building or site.
EnvDesign Design NA202.M5 Reserve
39. Landscape architecture: an illustrated history in timelines, site plans, and biography. William A. Mann. NY: John Wiley, 1993. Black and white maps and scaled ground plans of some of the most important historical environmental design projects from prehistory to the 1970s.
EnvDesign Design SB470.5 .M37 1993 Reference Desk
40. Living in a dream: great residences of the world. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Cut-away drawings, elevations, color photos, plans, drawings of 12 castles and palaces from all over the world. Scale not given.
EnvDesign fNA7710.L58 1993 non-circulating
41. National Register of Historic Places, California. Rev. and enl. ed. Teaneck, NJ: Chadwick-Healey, 1984. Microfiche has complete nominations including building and landscape plans. Arranged by county, then city or locality, then site.
EnvDesign Microfiche 10274 or search the NRIS database.
42. Picture researcher's handbook : an international guide to picture sources and how to use them / Hilary and Mary Evans. 7th ed. London : Pira International, c2001.
EnvDesign N4000 E8 Reference
43. Scale models : houses of the 20th century / edited by Friedrich Kurrent; [translation from German into English, Gail Schamberger. Boston; Basel; Berlin: Birkhauser, 1999.
EnvDesign NA7125.R3813 1999 Ref Desk
44. Single building series. Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers; Cincinnati, Ohio: Distributed to the book and art trade in the U.S. by North Light Books, c1999. Each monograph examines a contemporary building.
In Pathfinder search: se Single Building to retrieve list of books published in this series.
45. Source book of American architecture: 500 notable buildings from the 10th century to the present, by G.E. Kidder Smith.1st ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.Black & white photos, no plans.
EnvDesign NA705.S578 1996 Reference
46. Study-book of mediaeval architecture and art: being a series of working drawing of the principal monuments of the Middle Ages; whereof the plans, sections, and details are drawn to uniform scales, by Thomas H. King. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1893.
EnvDesign fNA350.K5 Folio
47. Various dwellings described in a comparative manner, by Richard Saul Wurman. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Joshua Press, 1964. A collection of comparative descriptive drawings in perspective of thirty-five significant dwellings from around the world drawn to the scale of 1:384.
EnvDesign NA7126.W8
48. World architecture 1900-2000: a critical mosaic / general editor, Kenneth Frampton. Wien: Springer, c1999- <2000>. Organized by continent, includes plans and photos: v. 1. Canada and the United States; v. 2. Latin America; v. 3. Northern Europe, Central Europe and Western Europe; v. 4. Mediterranean Basin;- v. 5. The Middle East; v. 6.Central and southern Africa; v. 7. Russia-USSR-CIS; v. 8. South Asia; v. 9. East Asia; v. 10. Southeast Asia and Oceania.
EnvDesign NA680 .W67 1999 Reference v.1-10(c1999)
49. World architecture index: a guide to illustrations, by Edward Teague. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Comprehensive list of visual sources found in approx. 100 different books arranged by geographical location with indexes to architect or designer, and building or site name. Abbreviations refer to books in which illustrations appear. See abbreviations list and call numbers in front of volume.
EnvDesign NA202.T4.1991 Reference Desk
50. World atlas of architecture. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1984. Pictorial history of architecture including color photographs, diagrams, orthogonal drawings, hypothetical reconstructions.
EnvDesign fNA200. W67. 1988 Reference Folio
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