With the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite and Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown House in Los Angeles, 2010 proved to be a great year for HABS projects.
This was the year that we composed full documentations of these two buildings built in 1924 (Ennis) and 1925-1927 (Ahwahnee). It has been an honor. Both buildings were obviously worthy of documentation in the 5×7 format, but color digital images with GPS locations were also captured at the same time.
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The negatives and prints will be released into the public domain upon acceptance at the Library of Congress; they will then be available for public upload and research at the LOC website.
Most importantly the negatives should still be in fine condition in the year 2510, just short of the 600 year anniversary of both buildings. (With California's earthquakes, fires and termites, I hope these amazing buildings still exist then too.)
Stephen Schafer is a HABS Photographer based in Ventura, California. | 805-652-1000 | www.habsphoto.com