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Subject: HABS/HAER Summer Employment Opportunities (fwd)
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Date: 1/21/98 2:50 PM
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:32:08 -0500
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Subject: HABS/HAER Summer Employment Opportunities
Dear Colleague:
Below is our 1998 Summer Employment Announcement.
HABS/HAER hires qualified college students, professionals and
educators in the fields of architecture, preservation, landscape
architecture, history, engineering and archeology.
Please forward and/or post this notification to all interested
parties! ( WEBMASTERS-- Please consider linking to our website--
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer ).
Thank you,
/s/
Robert R. Arzola, Architect
Historic American Buildings Survey
(202)343-9630
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1998 SUMMER EMPLOYMENT 1998
The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering
Record (HABS/HAER), a division of the National Park Service, seeks
applications from qualified individuals for summer employment
documenting historic sites and structures of architectural and
technological significance. Duties involve on-site field work and
preparation of historical reports and measured and interpretive
drawings for the HABS/HAER Collection at the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last twelve weeks,
beginning in May/June. Salaries start at approximately $4500 for the
summer, depending on levels of education and experience, and locality
of project.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Applicants for positions as architects, landscape architects,
historians, engineers, illustrators, industrial designers and
industrial archeologists must submit the following:
A resume and U.S. Government Standard Form OF-612
Supplemental Qualifications Statement (OPM Form 1170) or college
transcript
Letter of recommendation from a faculty member or employer
familiar with your work
Appropriate work samples (portfolios, articles, class papers,
etc.)
CAD Background and Experience Inquiry Form (for Architects and
Architecture Technicians to be considered for CAD based
projects)
Applicant Background Survey (DOI Form DI-1935)
Applicants who have worked for HABS/HAER since Summer 1993 need submit
only complete, current forms OF-612, OPM-1170, current resume, and
SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action).
(Forms OF-612, OPM-1170 and Applicant Background Survey (DI-1935) are
available at Federal office buildings, many employment agencies,
campus job placement centers, and from HABS/HAER at the address below.
(Positions are open only to United States citizens.)
Submit application materials to: Summer Program Administrator
National Park Service, HABS/HAER
Division
1849 "C" St., N.W., Room NC300
Washington, DC 20240
For more information: Phone: (202) 343-9626 /-9618
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APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MARCH 7, 1998!
Successful candidates will be notified by telephone between late April
and early May, 1998. Please provide a valid telephone number and, if
possible, e-mail address, for that time period.
For more information on the HABS/HAER Program, visit:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer
For more information on "How to Apply" and to download forms, visit :
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/jobscomp.htm
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The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) has recently recorded
examples of the work of American architects Richard Upjohn (Kenworthy
Hall in Alabama) and Edward Potter (Mark Twain House in Hartford,
Connecticut); the homes of nineteenth century statesmen Martin Van
Buren in Kinderhook, New York and John C. Calhoun in Clemson, South
Carolina; diverse sites such as Eastern State Penitentiary in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Alabama Theater, a 1920s movie palace
in Birmingham, Alabama, the rustic-style Community Building at Mt.
Rainier National Park, and the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park in
Maryland; landscapes such as Fairmount Park, and Laurel Hill Cemetery
in Philadelphia, and the George Washington Memorial Parkway in
Washington, D.C.; and vernacular building types such as Quaker meeting
houses in the Delaware Valley; coal company towns in Western
Pennsylvania; and textile mill housing in the south.
In recent years, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) has
prepared documentation on a variety of sites, including: roads and
bridges in national parks in Maine, North Carolina and Mississippi;
cast and wrought iron bridges in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Texas;
foundries in Alabama; textile mills in Georgia and Alabama; oil
pumping stations in Pennsylvania; a quicksilver mine in New Mexico;
cotton gins and presses in Louisiana; a cotton gin factory in Alabama;
a steam-powered, old growth timber saw mill in Oregon; a wire-rope
plant in New Jersey; a steam-powered, narrow gauge railroad in
Pennsylvania; a nitrate plant in Alabama; and wind tunnels and missile
test facilities in Virginia, Ohio and Alabama.
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