Here’s some highlights from my Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation of the First Street Viaduct over Glendale Boulevard from October, 2016.
HABS/HAER/HALS
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Highlights: 9430 Wilshire Blvd. May-2016
Here’s some highlights from my documentation of 9430 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills… Often the images in the HABS, HAER and HALS collections take years to be digitized…
Photographer’s Eye: Capturing History Forever, Photographing for the Historic American Buildings Survey
HABS, as the Historic American Buildings Survey is informally called, is arguably the best documentation program in the world for historic buildings. Stephen Schafer has been practicing this archival photographic process to capture sites in California as diverse as an 1840s adobe and a Cold-War stealth ship.
HABS/HAER/HALS Documentations from 2017 and 2018
A selection of my favorite large format negatives from the last couple years of Historic American Buildings Survey photography (HABS). By Stephen Schafer, Ventura, California, (805)-652-1000
HABS Mitigation for CEQA (Part 1: Is Cheaper Also Better?)
Documentation of historic resources is one way to mitigate impacts to significant properties and photographic documentation is one facet of a comprehensive CEQA mitigation strategy, and donating it to the National Park Service through their informal donation policy is less expensive than distributing multiple archival copies locally. The data created for HABS/HAER/HALS requires a Life Expectancy of over 500 years… Can your local historical society do that?
New Book About 1500 Mission Street, San Francisco
Announcing the publication of the 1500 Mission Street Historic Building Documentation book.
New Book About San Francisco’s Pier 70 Buildings
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the San Francisco Pier 70 Historic Building Documentation book.
Photographing the First California HAER Documentation, HAER-CA-1 (again)
We executed a documentation mitigation to HABS/HAER/HALS standards to be transmitted as an addendum to the 1975 materials. New drawings and report were prepared by historical architecture firm Garavaglia Architecture in Downtown San Francisco and we were brought in to document the exterior and interior before changes were made.
Archival Photo Mount Cards and Negative Sleeves for HABS/HAER/HALS Documentation
This is a resource page for those doing Historic American Buildings Survey photography and having a hard time finding the archival negative envelopes and slotted print mount cards that are required by HABS, HAER and HALS for transmission to the Library of Congress. All the specifications for transmittal of archival negatives and prints for the…
New book about the Isabelle Greene designed Lovelace Garden for HALS
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the Lovelace Garden Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) book. http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1228021?__r=229643 144 Pages with lots of photos and including Isabelle Greene's sketches plans for the garden, all the color field photos, the narrative, HABS drawings of the teahouse and garage, and of course PGADesign’s HALS drawings. The…