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Archeology
Getting a HABS/HAER/HALS Photography Quote
I field a lot of calls for HABS, HAER or HALS photography services so I wanted to put the fourteen most important questions for a HABS photography project out there. This will help you get the fastest and most complete estimate and if you’re getting competitive bids, every photographer will be quoting the same project, apples to…
Talented Masons, Opium Pipes, and a Big Hole in San Francisco
A year ago I spent a drizzly couple of December days doing a HABS-like documentation of a handsome brick building on Natoma Street in Downtown San Francisco…
The brick buildings are gone, the bus ramps are gone, the Pfleuger Terminal is gone and construction proceeds day and night; but opium pipes and porcelain doll heads from the 1880s keep telling stories.