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• Collection: Guide Records

• Title: HABS / HAER / HALS Collection
• Other Title: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection
  Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection
  Architecture, Engineering, and Landscapes: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection
• Date Created/Published: 1933-
• Medium: more than 500,000 items ; various sizes.
• Summary: This collection documents more than 40,000 historic structures and sites through large-format photographs (b&w and color), measured drawings, and written historical reports. Additions are made each year. More detailed information is available in the descriptions for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing Series: HABS, HAER, HALS) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized according to survey name (HABS, HAER, or HALS) and then the geographic location of the structure. Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by state, county, and city.
  • This preliminary catalog record contains draft information to be verified and expanded.
  • The three surveys that form this collection result from tripartite agreements among the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and professional architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture associations. HABS is the oldest collection and began in 1933 as a WPA program. HAER began in 1969. HALS began in 2000.
  • Supplementary documentation is available for some surveys, indicated by the presence of a "Field note" or "Field record" number in the online catalog.
  • Collection title devised by Library staff.
  • Cite as the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
  • Digitized images of most items in the collection and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hh
  • Digitized images were formerly available under the title: Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. first produced in 1997 for the National Digital Library Program, American Memory collections, and closed in 2013.
  • Transfer; National Park Service; 1933-
  • Published in: America preserved : a checklist of historic buildings, structures, and sites / recorded by The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record ; introduction by Marilyn Ibach and Georgette R. Wilson. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1995.
  • Published in: Historic America : buildings, structures, and sites / recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record ; checklist compiled by Alicia Stamm ; essays edited by C. Ford Peatross. Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983.
• Subjects:
  • Historic sites--United States.
• Format:
  • Measured drawings.
  • Photographs.
• Collections:
  • Guide Records
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing Series: HABS, HAER, HALS) [P&P]
• Medium: more than 500,000 items ; various sizes.

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• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing Series: HABS, HAER, HALS) [P&P]
• Medium: more than 500,000 items ; various sizes.

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