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Historic building documentation in the united states, 1933-2000: the historic american buildings survey, a case studyKomas, Tanya Wattenburg 29 August 2005 (has links)
The objective of the study was to gain new insight into archival building documentation
in the United States since 1933 focusing on Historic American Buildings Survey
(HABS) as a case study. It sought to help explain how individuals with different levels
of involvement with the HABS program, and throughout its entire history, understood
the development, current operational context, and future direction of HABS. Seven
general philosophical and practical issues were explored: 1) how HABS documentation
standards were understood and applied, 2) the relative values of the process and products
of documentation, 3) the understanding and application of the objective and subjective
natures of the documentation process, 4) whether the mission of the program had
changed with changes in the operation of the program since its inception, 5) the role of
technology in the process of HABS documentation and how it shapes the end products,
6) defining broader historical epochs with the goal of adding to existing understandings
of the history of the program, and 7) the causes and effects of HABS drawing style
changes over time.
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Humanizing HABS: Rethinking the Historic American Buildings Survey's Role in Interpreting Antebellum Slave HousesHill, Jobie 03 October 2013 (has links)
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Federal Writers' Project were two government survey programs from the 1930s that, in part, documented slavery in America. Historically stakeholders utilized these resources in isolation of one another. Coordination between the two programs in this study has identified five documented slave houses from the HABS collection that are directly linked to a slave narrative recorded by the Writers' Project. The slave narrative brings to life the spatial density, degree of accommodations, nature of the facilities, and attitudes of those who inhabited the slave house. The relationship between the historical record and the stories of the inhabitants is crucial to our understanding and interpretation of the lifeways and settings of enslaved African Americans in the Antebellum South. Historic preservationists now have five personal accounts of the historic plantation landscape upon which to build future interdisciplinary appreciation and research.
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