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Finding Aid for the Historic American Buidlings Survey drawings, circa 1968-circa 1983
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Title: Historic American Buildings Survey drawings
Identifier/Call Number: 0000251
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Container: 549
Physical Description:
5.0 Linear feet
(1 record storage box and 1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1968-circa 1983
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Historic American Building Survey drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
The Historic American Buildings Survey or HABS was founded in 1933 as a division of the United States National Park Service
(NPS) and was the nation’s first federal preservation program aimed at documenting America’s architectural heritage. Historic
buildings are documented according to the HABS guidelines which involve a combination of architectural drawings, photography,
and written history.
The Historic American Buildings Survey drawings span 5 linear feet and date from circa 1968 to circa 1983. The collection
is composed of photographic reproductions and negatives of architectural drawings as well as architectural drawings in the
form of reprographic copies, for the following buildings: American Trona Salt Storage Plant, Barnsdall Park, Freeman house,
Dodge house, Horatio West Court Apartments, Los Angeles Public Library, Irwin house, Lovell (Health) house, Richfield Oil
Building, Lovell Beach house, Schindler house, Sowden house, Bradbury building, El Cuartel, the Miranda house, a house owned
by Mrs. A. L. M. Vhay, and the Yorba-Abadie house, all located in Los Angeles County or Santa Barbara, California.
Related Archival Materials note
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey.
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Irving John Gill papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Carelton Monroe Winslow Sr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Frank Lloyd Wright architectural drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Lloyd Wright drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gill, Irving, 1870-1936
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924
Greene and Greene.
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978
Wyman, George H.
Architectural drawings
Negatives
Photographic prints
Reprographic copies