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In 2001, along with the Library of Congress, the NPS, and the American Society of Landscape Architects signed a Memorandum of Understanding which established a working relationship between the three organizations. Following the signing of this agreement, these organizations together signed the
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in the United States, carrying out multi-format surveys that amassed a "more than 581,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, written histories, and original field notes for more than 43,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century."
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The Library of Congress has since been expanded to serve as the national library of the United States; U.S. publishers are required to deposit a copy of every copyrighted and published work, book monograph and magazine. As a branch of the
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in the U.S. Many images, drawings, and documents are available through the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, including proposed, demolished, and existing structures; locales, projects, and designs.
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A predecessor, the Historic American Landscape and Garden Project, recorded historic Massachusetts gardens between 1935 and 1940. That project was funded by the
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The NPS deals with the planning and operations of HALS, standardizes the formats and develops the guidelines for recording landscapes.
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established a sister program, the Historic American Landscapes Survey, to systematically document historic American landscapes.
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Records of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Division
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The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) program was founded on January 10, 1969, by NPS and the
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The Georgia catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey : a guide to the architecture of the state
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New England based Photographer Andrew Baugnet specializes in HABS/HAER photographic documentation
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Photographer Stepen Schafer BLOG: Frequently Asked Questions about HABS, HAER and HALS website
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In 1933, NPS established the Historic American Buildings Survey following a proposal by
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Since the advent of HAER, the combined program is typically called "HABS/HAER".
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National Park Service (NPS): official Heritage Documentation Programs website
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American Place: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-Five Years
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Tripartite Agreement in 2010, making "HALS a permanent federal program."
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of primary source material and documentation for the then-fledgling
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By creating an archive of historic architecture, HABS provided a
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for architects, draftsmen, and photographers left jobless by the
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The Los Angeles Chapter of The American Institute of Architects
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The permanent collection of HABS/HAER/HALS are housed at the
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The Heritage Documentation Programs team measures the
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Architecture organizations based in the United States
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in 1815) as the replacement reference library of the
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Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection
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Index

Historic American Building Survey

Kentucky School for the Blind
Louisville, Kentucky
National Park Service
Library of Congress

First Bank of the United States
Philadelphia
Charles E. Peterson
landscape architect
make-work program
Great Depression
Historic Sites Act
Washington, D.C.
architectural heritage
built environment
database
historic preservation
Eleanor Raymond
Charles Morse Stotz
White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs
Jack Boucher
Robert W. Tebbs
Richard Koch
Jet Lowe

Rocky Flats Plant
Boulder, Colorado
American Society of Civil Engineers

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