| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Recording a Vanishing Legacy: The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico, 1933–Today. By the New Mexico Architectural Foundation and the American Institute of Architects. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2001. xiv + 147 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendixes, notes, bibliography. $45, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was a Depression-era New Deal program designed as relief for underemployed architects and drafters. Although those who qualified for such assistance in the Southwest were few in 1933, the survey's founders appreciated New Mexico's Native American and Spanish Colonial architectural heritage, and, thus, specifically included the documentation of such sites in the original proposal. Never completely abandoned, the HABS recording program remains healthy today under the auspices of the National Park Service. 1

As might be expected, considering its "authorship" by the New Mexico Architectural Foundation and the American Institute of Architects, this is an attractive volume, well-conceived and executed. The numerous black-and-white illustrations of skilled, measured drawings and period photographs are superb. They are often beautiful, clearly reproduced, and oriented to landscape rather than portrait mode, so that none of the details are lost in the gutters of the book. For its visuals alone, this publication could easily find a place on one's coffee table, but it belongs in many types of research libraries, as well. . . .

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