ABOUT BRUCE G. HARVEY

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I am an independent historian and photographer, based in Syracuse, NY, and provide a range of cultural resources consulting services: historic research, National Register of Historic Places evaluations and nominations, HABS/HAER/HALS photography and narratives, and more. I have worked as a consulting historian, architectural historian, and documentation photographer since 1995, completing projects ranging from historic architectural surveys of counties to the evaluation of individual buildings, NRHP nominations of individual buildings and historic districts, historic narratives of such places as military bases, landscapes, and entire river systems, and historic properties management plans for hydroelectric stations. As a photographer, I use 4x5 black and white film to document a range of historic resources in accordance with the standards established by the National Park Service for the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS).

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I began my career with a BA in History from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. After a fantastic summer spent with the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program in Massachusetts, I traveled south for my M.A. at the University of South Carolina's Applied History Program (now the renowned Public History Program). While finishing work on my M.A. thesis, I began work for the City of Charlotte, NC as the Acting Director of the Hezekiah Alexander Homesite (now a part of the vastly enlarged Charlotte Museum of History). After nearly three years there, I returned graduate school, earning my Ph.D. in American History from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. My dissertation was a study of three world's fairs in Southern cities (Atlanta 1895, Nashville 1897, and Charleston, SC 1901-1902), which, after a very long hiatus on my part, the University of Tennessee Press graciously published in 2014.

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With an interest in photography going back to high school, I began learning how to work with large-format film cameras in the late 1990s. While working as a Senior Historian and Architectural Historian for Brockington and Associates, I conducted my first HABS-level photography project of a foundation ruins in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina in 1999, and have since gone on to conduct more than 50 photographic documentation projects with my large-format camera and black and white film, from New Mexico to Maine and many places in between.

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