Historic (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne E. Grimmer. Kimberly A. Konrad.

This is number forty of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on preserving historic ceramic tile floors. This Brief begins with an overview of ceramic tiles as a traditional flooring material. It includes an explanation of the various kinds of historic floor tiles used in the United States and how they were made. General guidance is given on preservation treatments, focusing on maintenance, and, when necessary,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David W. Look. Terry Wong. Sylvia Rose Augustus.

This is number forty-one of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on keeping preservation in the forefront. This Preservation Brief provides essential information on how earthquakes affect historic buildings, how a historic preservation ethic can guide responsible decisions, and how various methods of seismic retrofit can protect human lives and historic structures. Because many of the terms used in this Brief are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Pieper.

This is number forty-two of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the maintenance, repair and replacement of historic cast stone. Cast stone-a mixture of water, sand, coarse aggregate, and cementing agents--has proven over time to be an attractive and durable building material, when properly manufactured. It gained popularity in the 1860s and, by the early decades of the 20th century, became widely accepted as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Teel Patterson Tiller. David W. Look.

This is number five of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the preservation of historic adobe buildings. Whether built in the 17th century or in the 20th century, adobe buildings share common problems of maintenance and deterioration. This brief discusses the traditional materials and construction of adobe buildings and the causes of adobe deterioration. It also makes recommendations for preserving historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne E. Grimmer.

This is number six of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the dangers of abrasive cleaning to historic buildings. Abrasive cleaning methods are responsible for causing a great deal of damage to historic building materials. To prevent indiscriminate use of these potentially harmful techniques, this brief has been prepared to explain abrasive cleaning methods, how they can be physically and aesthetically...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Teel Patterson Tiller.

This is number seven of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the preservation of historic glazed architectural terra-cotta. Today, many of this country's buildings are constructed of glazed architectural terra-cotta. However, many of these are in a state of serious deterioration and decay. Glazed architectural terra-cotta was, in many ways, the "wonder" material of the American building industry in the late...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Myers. Gary L. Hume.

This is number eight of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the appropriateness of substitute materials for resurfacing historic wood frame buildings. The intent of this brief has been to delineate issues that should be considered when contemplating the use of aluminum or vinyl sidings on historic buildings and assessing under what circumstances substitute materials such as artificial siding may be used...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Myers.

This is number nine of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on the repair of historic wooden windows. This Brief is based on the issues of significance and repair which are implicit in the standards, but the primary emphasis is on the technical issues of planning for the repair of windows including evaluation of their physical condition, techniques of repair, and design considerations when replacement is...

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Schedule F and Exhibit F-1 of the Preservation Covenant for the historic homestead of Belle Chance, located at Andrews Air Force Base. This document establishes the terms, conditions, and restrictions relating to the preservation of certain improvements to Belle Chance's main house and outbuildings which are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian F. Smith.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates.

This poster is for the guidebook that describes historic sites important to American military heritage.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alicia Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "Digging Deeper: Pushing Ourselves to Engage the Public in Our Shared Heritage through Outreach and Education" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United Comstock Merger Mill, locally known as the American Flat Mill, was a cyanide mill constructed in 1922 on the eastern portion of the American Flat near Virginia City, Nevada. This mill, located within the boundaries of the Virginia City National Historic Landmark,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Pfeiffer. Richard T. Gartley. J. Byron Sudbury.

Anthropomorphic terra cotta tobacco pipe fragments have been found in historical archaeological sites across the United States. This paper will discuss the subset of these known widely as “President Pipes”. This is actually a misnomer since some of these pipes are dedicated to presidential contenders. Several new points of origin for these pipes manufacture have been discovered. In addition to the anthropomorphic clay pipes, there are also anthropomorphic Meerschaum pipes and non anthropomorphic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Cole.

The Maryland Historic Trust (MDSHPO) comments concerning the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization (PAR) Program at Joint Base Andrews, determining no historic properties or archaeological sites eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in the Area of Potential Effect (APE).

IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

1848 Lewis Cass Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163. (PCN 782 and 1097).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Towner.

Printout of the flaked stone lithic database of the analyzed portion of the collection. A partial coding sheet is included to make the printout usable.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

In October 2007, Kreilick Conservation, LLC was retained to conserve four grave ledgers in the Prioleau Cemetery, to conduct a structural assessment of the brick perimeter wall of the cemetery, and to prepare specifications for its conservation. The conservation of the ledgers was completed by February 2008, and the structural assessment for the perimeter wall was completed in April 2008. In February 2011. Kreilick Conservation, LLC was retained to complete the conservation treatment of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

In August 2006, The Office of Natural and Cultural Resources of the Charleston Naval Weapons Station contacted Kreilick Conservation, LLC to conduct a conditions assessment of the Prioleau Cemetery at the Naval Weapons Station in North Charleston, SC. Scott Kreilick completed the assessment on July 19, 2007. GEL Geophysics, LLC retained the company on October 9, 2007 to complete conservation treatment of the four markers (ledgers and brick bases) and structural assessment and conservation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Marie Wolf.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Prison Camp site, comprised of the site of the Catalina Federal Honor Camp, as well as prehistoric bedrock mortars and petroglyphs, located on Coronado National Forest land. The file consists of an Arizona Site Steward Program OPS form. The earliest dated document is from 2004.

DOCUMENT Citation Only George W. Shorter, Jr..

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of several privies from about 1740-1880 at the 625 Broadway Archaeological Site, Albany, NY

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Eckert.

During the post-Chacoan period (A.D. I 175- 1225) the first aggregated sites in the Zuni Region of the American Southwest were built. This research examines a shift in regional settlement patterns and the reorganization of sociopolitical systems during this initial period of aggregation in the lower Zuni River region. A chronology for the post-Chacoan settlements in the case study area is built using ceramic type data. The results suggest that the process of aggregation in the Zuni region can...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This pamphlet provides a basic understanding for qualified program managers, technical and procurements staffs in DoD with set guidelines for whole-building recycling, and reuse of historic materials. The pamphlet is meant to be used as a supplement to the Procurement Guidelines booklet. The new guidelines will provide information that will assisted in DoD installations Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cullinane Associates.

This pamphlet provides a basic understanding for qualified program managers, technical and procurements staffs in DoD with set guidelines for whole-building recycling, and reuse of historic materials. The pamphlet is meant to be used as a supplement to the Procurement Guidelines booklet. The new guidelines will provide information that will assisted in DoD installations Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process.

DATASET Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

This procurement log is a spreadsheet of 297 work order numbers, their vendors, status and date of completion. The work orders were completed at Randolph Air Force Base in the month of July 2011 and a few in August 2011.