HABS Photography exposed and explained on my new Substack.
Author: HABS HAER Photographer Stephen Schafer
HABS HAER Photography transmitted to the Library of Congress
Middle of May 2025 Four more records transmitted to the Library of Congress last week. Three Historic American Engineering Record projects and a Historic American Buildings Survey project. Presidio of San Francisco, Aircraft Hangar (HABS CA-2942) Natomas Ditch System, Rhoades' Branch Ditch (HAER CA-144-B) Southern Pacific Railroad Bayshore Cutoff, Tunnel No. 3 (HAER…
UNT Lecture on HABS April 23, 2025
I’m teaching a webinar on HABS/HAER via zoom through the University of North Texas. April 23, 2025. Link: https://library.unt.edu/news/2025/03-19-lecture-habs If you’d like more information about HABS/HAER/HALS photography take a look at our website. www.HABSphoto.com Stephen Schafer Architectural Photography Ventura, California Ph: 415-857-HAER
CPF webinar about Stephen Schafer, HABS Photographer
My Path to Preservation: Insights from a HABS Photographer INFO LINK Members Non-Members FREEDate: May 20, 2025Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Join the California Preservation Foundation for our My Path to Preservation series, a webinar program with the goal of sharing insights with students, interns, graduates, emerging professionals, and anyone interested in a…
Topanga Ranch Motel Lost to Fire HABS CA-3002
Today, I got an official HABS number from HDP, after looking through some files and finding the negatives. HABS CA-3002. This week the motel was lost in the Palisades Fire.
New HABS Photo Scans on the LoC Website
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 Answers on r/habsphotography Subreddit
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. The oldest government building in America, The…