Heritage Documentation Programs is a division of the U.S. National Park Service. It administers three programs established to document historic places in the United States: the Historic American Build
The Heritage Documentation Programs team measures the Kentucky School for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1934.
An HABS photograph of the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia
An HAER photograph of the Rocky Flats Plant in Boulder, Colorado
A HALS photograph of San Francisco National Cemetery in San Francisco
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The National Park Service is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational
Heritage Documentation Programs
…Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). It administers three programs established to document historic places in the United States: the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the…
In 1934, a series of ten postage stamps was issued to commemorate the reorganization and expansion of the National Park Service.
NPS Preliminary Survey party, Great Smoky Mountains, 1931
NPS staff sitting on the set for the 1972 Centennial for the creation of the first National Park (the Yellowstone NP), in a NBC Today Show. Left to right: George Hartzog, William Everhart, Frank McGee and Jack K. Anderson.
NPS publication, 2012