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    Historic building documentation in the united states, 1933-2000: the historic american buildings survey, a case study

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    2005-08-29
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    Komas, Tanya Wattenburg
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    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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    http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2295
    Subject
    Historic preservation
    architecture
    building documentation
    Historic American Buildings Survey
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    Komas, Tanya Wattenburg (2003). Historic building documentation in the united states, 1933-2000: the historic american buildings survey, a case study. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /2295.

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