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Title: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on October 20, 2011, 12:00:57 PM: Not screen printing related but I thought I would ask here anyway. Anybody have any old architectural or engineering blueprints they want to unload? I came across a collection of a Shell gas station blue prints from the 50's that are retro-cool! I'm hooked on old blue prints now. If you have some, give me a shout!
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: Command-Z on October 20, 2011, 12:08:28 PM: Interesting hobby you've found for yourself.

City archives might be a good place to look for that kind of thing.

You might also find this interesting... it's a good resource for illustrators:

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ (http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/)
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: Frog on October 20, 2011, 12:21:56 PM: My next place to go would be an old, established architectural firm.
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: squeezee on October 20, 2011, 12:23:15 PM: I live in an old railway town and we found the technical drawings of an old steam engine, it was really beautifully drawn.
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: ebscreen on October 20, 2011, 01:19:24 PM: I've got the drawings and schematics for a 1970's M&M flatstock press, somewhere.
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: mk162 on October 20, 2011, 01:28:00 PM: You can break into the courthouse in san antonio and try to steal them...or just run through the halls with a judge's gavel.

Squeezee, can you post a pic of that? I would love to see it.
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: squeezee on October 20, 2011, 05:40:23 PM: I'll get a few pics, it's about 5'x3'
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on October 20, 2011, 06:10:35 PM: Quote from: squeezee on October 20, 2011, 05:40:23 PM
I'll get a few pics, it's about 5'x3'

I missed a cool one on ebay of a locomotive/cars. The ones I bought were a quarter for a big stack of them from a local garage sale. The tattered edges even make them better. No repros.
I'm not a collector of anything but these vintage prints are pretty cool and works of art.
If anybody has some in their grandparents attic, let me know. I'm just buying what I can for me, not for resale.
Back in the day, I was a machinist when they came out hand drawn and lettered and wet and blue for a reason. Now they're printed in seconds, never have been touched by a person until someone needs to remove them from the printer.

I remember one particular print as a machinist that noted verbatim "If it don't look like this, (a free hand perspective drawing in the margins) stop!".
Title: Re: Looking for old architectural or engineering blueprints
Post by: bryan on July 11, 2014, 12:34:33 AM: i have a friend that asked me to help find a value and sell an original set of seattle space needle blueprints. any ideas??