Article ID: CBB446983104

Drawing Conclusions: Recording IA Sites through Measured and Interpretive Drawings (1997)

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Thomas M. Behrens (Author)
Todd A. Croteau (Author)
Dean Herrin (Author)
Dana L. Lockett (Author)
Christopher H. Marston (Author)


IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Pages: 61-76


Publication Date: 1997
Edition Details: DOCUMENTING COMPLEXITY: THE HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD AND AMERICA’S TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY
Language: English

Short of actually standing on sacred IA ground, the best one can usually do for a glimpse of the true cross is to "see" it through reliable and thorough documentation of the site. Though whist players and theologians may make interesting recording-team members, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) prefers well-trained draftsmen to explicate historic industrial and engineering sites through interpretive drawings. Comprehensive HAER documentation includes drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories, each component having its own unique advantages and purpose, each preferably coordinated with the other two. Drawings, however, by helping us "see things in mid-air," have long been at the heart of historic documentation. The oldest federal preservation program, in fact, HAER' s sister agency, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), was created in the 1930s as a New Deal program to employ out-of-work architects. Drawings are not without liabilities as interpretive tools, but good drawings are powerful lenses for the mind's eye.

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Authors & Contributors
Eric DeLony
Mary Rose Boswell
Theodore Penn
Thomas E. Leary
Brian F. Coffey
Joel Sabadasz
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Documentation
Photography, Documentary
Memoirs
Architectural Drawings
Industrial heritage
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
New Hampshire (U.S.)
Jenkins, Kentucky
Muscle Shoals, AL
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Yukon territory
Institutions
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Consolidation Coal Company
Washburn Wire Company
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Quincy Mining Company
Berlin Mills Company
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