| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933–Present, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress Ameri can Memory Project, Washington, D.C. Reviewed Jan. 2007.

In 1933, during the depression, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was established as a national repository for drawings and photographs of early American architecture. The program was administered by the National Park Service, which hired underemployed architects to record and photograph buildings dating from before the Civil War. In a cooperative arrangement, the measured drawings, photographs, and historical data sheets derived from that fieldwork became part of the collections of the Library of Congress. By the 1950s, the habs, augmented in later years by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), was no longer a relief program but a training ground in research and recording practices for students. Over the last fifty years the scope has expanded to include a wider variety of buildings and structures as well as ones from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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