The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest
and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of
the Library. The collections document achievements in architecture,
engineering and design in the United States and its territories
through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering
technologies including examples as diverse as the pueblo of Acoma,
the Mark
Twain House, the Golden
Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright.
Kapsch is currently the National Park Service senior scholar in
historic architecture and engineering. As special assistant to the
deputy director of the National Park Service, he served as project
engineer for the restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and
its structures. He served for 15 years as chief of the Historic
American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record collections,
which are now held by the Library of Congress, and is the author
of several definitive histories of early American canal engineering,
including "The Potomac Canal: A Construction History"
and "The Conewago Canal: Pennsylvania's First Canal."
"Canals" and "Barns" are each available for
$75 in bookstores nationwide and through the Library's Sales Shop,
Washington, DC 20540-4985. Credit card orders are taken at (888)
682-3557 or online.
A. John O. Brostrup, photographer. Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal, Great Falls Tavern, Lock 20, MacArthur Boulevard
Vicinity, Great Falls, Montgomery County, Md., 1936. Historic American
Buildings Survey. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction
information: Call no.: HABS, MD,16-20-4