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Today is Rock Your Mocs day—a day to celebrate Indigenous culture and the significance of moccasins.
All across the world, Native communities will wear and share photos of their moccasins and honor their Tribal individuality and heritage.
Photo from the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
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In 2008, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) celebrated our 75th anniversary. During that year, Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS marked the occasion with an exhibition held at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, DC and the exhibition catalog AMERICAN PLACE.
DOWNLOAD your FREE copy of "AMERICAN PLACE: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-Five Years" which tells the story of how the architectural history of America has been recorded for (over) seventy-five years by HABS from our website athttps://www.nps.gov/hdp/habs/AmericanPlace.pdf (22.3 MB .PDF).
150 years ago this week, the Hayden Expedition entered what is now Yellowstone National Park. Two members of the group would be especially influential in convincing Congress to set aside the area as the country's first national park: photographer William Henry Jackson and artist Thomas Moran. Moran's paintings culminated in a large landscape of the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon, which we are calling . Follow the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum and Yellowstone as we follow the United States Geological Survey expedition through this remote area, giving weekly updates of what the group encountered on this epic fact-finding adventure. Click to see all the posts, with updates coming out tomorrow, and then every Thursday this summer.
🎨🐕 Today's is at the head of a Conestoga wagon train in this circa 1936 watercolor by William Henry Jackson. In his nineties, the artist/explorer/survey photographer was commissioned to do several illustrations--including this one--for the inaugural displays at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, DC.
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Who wants one?
In 2008, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) celebrated our 75th anniversary. During that year, Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS marked the occasion with an exhibition held at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, District of Columbia and the exhibition catalog AMERICAN PLACE.
DOWNLOAD your FREE copy of "AMERICAN PLACE: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-Five Years" which tells the important story of how the architectural history of America has been recorded for (over) seventy-five years by HABS from our website athttps://www.nps.gov/hdp/habs/AmericanPlace.pdf (22.3 MB .PDF).
We can bear-ly contain our excitement for tomorrow! John Schoenherr served as a National Park Service artist in residence at Great Smoky Mountains National Park and was asked to reflect on the park’s 1,500 black bears. This piece resides U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
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Check out this beautiful painting of Fisher Towers from the archives of the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum!
Who wants one?
In 2008, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) celebrated our 75th anniversary. During that year, Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS marked the occasion with an exhibition held at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, District of Columbia and the exhibition catalog AMERICAN PLACE.
DOWNLOAD your FREE copy of "AMERICAN PLACE: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-Five Years" which tells the important story of how the architectural history of America has been recorded for (over) seventy-five years by HABS from our website athttps://www.nps.gov/hdp/habs/AmericanPlace.pdf (22.3 MB .PDF).
My time interning at the Department of the Interior was one of the best experiences of my career! I can’t believe this was 6 years ago!
Who wants one?
In 2008, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) celebrated our 75th anniversary. During that year, Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS marked the occasion with an exhibition held at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington and the exhibition catalog AMERICAN PLACE.
DOWNLOAD your FREE copy of "AMERICAN PLACE: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-Five Years" which tells the important story of how the architectural history of America has been recorded for (over) seventy-five years by HABS from our website athttps://www.nps.gov/hdp/habs/AmericanPlace.pdf (22.3 MB .PDF).