News and Information About HABS, HAER and HALS Photography
This is a list of most Stephen D. Schafer’s Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record and Historic American Landscapes Survey projects since 2003. I say ‘most‘ because I had to make the list shorter at one point to fit it on one page, so I removed a bunch of HABS, HAER, and HALS…
The Crossroads of the World historic district was a large-scale HABS photography documentation, with 105 views, that I should have posted these HABS photos back in 2023, after they were accepted into the Library of Congress HABS collections, but something probably came up. Something always does. CROSSROADS OF THE WORLDÂ Photography by Stephen D. SchaferHABS No….
A few of my HABS* and HAER* donations were transmitted to the collection at the Library of Congress last year (2025)…
HABS Photography exposed and explained on my new Substack.
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…
I’m doing a presentation. đź—ş 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…
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.
HABS photography of a former Fotomat for inclusion in the Historic American Buildings Survey collection at the Library of Congress.
Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital The Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital of San Francisco is a winner for the 2022 Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation. We created photographs for Project Lead Mike Garavaglia of Garavaglia Architecture in San Francisco. About the Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital The former Immigration Station Hospital was rehabilitated for adaptive…
HABS large format photographs of the Times Mirror Building, constructed in 1970-73 for the Times Mirror Company, and designed by William L. Pereira & Associates.