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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.
Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983.

Description:

xvi, 708 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Using the HABS/HAER collections at the Library of Congress / Mary M. Ison -- The historic American buildings survey : its beginnings / Charles E. Peterson -- The survey in Louisiana in the 1930s / Samuel Wilson, Jr. -- Documenting a city : Philadelphia / George B. Tatum -- Cape May, New Jersey : preservation of a Victorian town / Carolyn Pitts -- Main Street : its revitalization / Carole Rifind -- Documenting early American technology : covered bridges / Richard Sanders Allen -- Recording a room : the kitchen / Rodris Roth -- Fittings and fixtures : miscellaneous Americana in survey photographs / Denys Peter Myers -- America's cast-iron heritage / Margot Gayle -- Vernacular construction in the survey / Carl Lounsbury -- Recording the work of an architect : Frank Lloyd Wright / David G. Delong -- HABS at an awkward age : the 1960s and 1970s / Robert Bruegmann -- Recording historic buildings : new philosophies, new techniques, new technologies / John Burns -- A rich vein in the mother lode : HABS in the Library of Congress / C. Ford Peatross -- Future directions for the historic American buildings survey / Robert J. Kapsch -- The checklist of buildings, structures, and sites -- Using the checklist / Alicia Stamm.
ISBN:

0844404314
9780844404318

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Historic buildings United States.
Historic sites United States.
Architecture États-Unis.
Monuments historiques États-Unis.
Lieux historiques États-Unis.
Architecture
Historic buildings
Historic sites
Architektur
Inventar
Historische Stätte
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Government publications
Architecture (object genre) inventories.
Architecture (object genre) surveys (documents)

Added entries:

Stamm, Alicia, compiler.
Peatross, C. Ford, editor.
Historic American Buildings Survey.
Historic American Engineering Record.
Library of Congress.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 102610
Call No.: NA705 (ID:85-B15986)
Status: Available

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