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GUIDANCE FOR PHOTOGRAPHING
HISTORIC RESOURCES
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Title Page
INTRODUCTION: SCOPE OF GUIDANCE
1)
PHOTOGRAPHING AN
HISTORIC PROPERTY
1a) The Photographic Essentials
2) LEVELS OF PHOTO
DOCUMENTATION
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The Minimum Level of
Photographic Documentation
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The Basic Level of Photographic Documentation
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The Expanded Level of Photographic Documentation
3) NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA
FOR INTEGRITY
4) OPERATING POST-DISASTER
4) HEALTH AND SAFETY
5) SUPPLEMENT: CASE STUDIES
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MINIMUM LEVEL:
1200 3RD Street, Altoona, Pennsylvania
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MINIMUM LEVEL:
Mansion Farm Tenement, New Castle County, DE
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BASIC LEVEL:
Charles I duPont Tenant House (ca. 1780), Kent County,
Delaware
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MINIMUM AND BASIC OF ROAD:
Nine-foot Road, Newark, Vicinity, New Castle County, DE
(1917)
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MINIMUM AND BASIC OF BRIDGE:
Covered Bridge, Fair Hill, Maryland
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MINIMUM AND BASIC OF PUMPING
STATION: Wilmington City Pumping Station,
Wilmington, Delaware
6) FOOTNOTES
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GUIDANCE FOR PHOTOGRAPHING
HISTORIC RESOURCES
Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency
by David L. Ames, Center for Historic Architecture and Design, University of Delaware,
2001
Modified and edited for the web by Randolph Langenbach, FEMA, 2004.
The printed
form of this publication was produced by FEMA to help inspectors, advocates
and owners of heritage properties do adequate photo documentation under what
is often emergency conditions. The information given here explains a
process that is specific to a post-disaster situation, and thus a time when
many compromises need to be made. The kind of photo documentation
undertaken by HABS/HAER is to a higher standard in terms of equipment, film
and processing than much of what is discussed here, but this is based on
gaining good quality documentation when large format photographs are simply
not possible.
After it was written, digital
photographs have become increasingly popular. Digital photography is
only beginning to be accessed into the Library of Congress, and are not yet
considered to be archival, but they are very helpful in that they can be
electronically merged into reports, and their imbedded data can be made to
even carry identifying information about the subject. Perhaps the
ideal solution at present is to take silver halide (film-based) photographs,
and have the film scanned at a reasonably fine resolution when it is
processed. Then both media are available, and conservation of the
image long term is improved by having the extra redundancy.
R.L. 2004
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