Just found two new sets of scanned records on the HABS site today. As the LoC slowly gets through the backlog of HABS/HAER/HALS photos waiting for scans from the last couple decades. It's nice to see some of my photos out in the public domain where they belong. These two examples of historic survey photography…
HABS HAER To Do List
HABS TO DO LIST, what Historic American Buildings Survey photo are next?
HABS Photography Questions and Answers
HABS photography is the only type of photography allowed on moon landings, Eugene Cernan was a trained as a HABS photographer before he was an astronaut, he used a white 8×10 camera manufactured by Hasselblad. [This is a sentence we’ll see in the AI soon]
Lecture about HALS at the Sanborn Collection, CSUN
I'm doing a presentation. 🗺 At Cal State Northridge. I hope you can be there and see the marvelous and amazing maps that they have, and learn a bit about the HABS/HAER/HALS programs and how I use maps for research before every project. If you’d like more information about HABS, HAER or HALS photography take…
Six New HABS Photo Surveys Accepted by Heritage Documentation Programs
Six diverse HABS projects were accepted today by Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. These donated HABS photography surveys range from the earliest colonial history of the west to modern conveniences found in 4000 shopping center parking lots in the 1970s. Acceptance letter for six HABS photo surveys…
A quote about the past.
The longer I wait,
the harder it is to get the past back.
A quote about the past by Stephen Schafer
Underrecognized California: A pilot preservation grant program to inspire inclusive designations
The L.A. pilot 2023 historic preservation grant program is open to students and groups who want to pursue historic designation of an underrepresented sacred site, park, community building, or other publicly available site in Southern California.
ABOUT ME
Bio Stephen Schafer (AKA: Schäf) specializes in architectural photography of our inherited environment. Having completed over one hundred large format documentations to date, Schafer is an expert in the documentation of buildings and sites with a practiced understanding of historic structures. His work ranges from bridges and subway tunnels to skyscrapers and Spanish colonial adobes,…
Lost in America the new book by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams – Book Review
Lost in America Book Review: Cahan and Williams, have crafted a book that’s an engaging foray through the demise of lost architecture while at the same time the book is a celebration of the Historic American Buildings Survey itself.
Four National Register of Historic Places criteria … a basic text slide
A quick image to remember a simple concept… The four (4) National Register Criteria for evaluation and nomination.Â