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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 04:14 PM Sep 2012

Jack E. Boucher, longtime National Park Service photographer, dies at 80

Who? Jack Boucher. If you're interested in old structures - buildings, bridges, viaducts, railroad water tanks, anything old - you've seen his work. He worked for the Historic American Buildings Survey. He traveled the country making photographic records of these old structures. Many are long gone. We will always have the pictures. Thanks, Jack.

Jack E. Boucher, longtime National Park Service photographer, dies at 80

By Megan McDonough, Published: September 13
The Washington Post

Jack E. Boucher, a National Park Service photographer who documented America’s architectural heritage, including presidential homesteads, old carousels and a former leper settlement in Hawaii, died Sept. 2 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He was 80.
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Mr. Boucher took more than 55,000 photographs of an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 buildings during his 47-year career at the Park Service’s Historic American Buildings Survey.

The range of his subjects was vast: the Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wis., designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; the historic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles; the oval stairway of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York; mansions in Newport, R.I.; old mills and armories of New England; and the notable Wheeling Suspension Bridge in West Virginia.

For his work, he carted around hundreds of pounds of equipment, working in later years from a battered red minivan.


ETA: There's a Wikipedia page for him. I should have known.

Jack Boucher



This page links to some of his work: HABS/HAER Highlights


The Wheeling Suspension Bridge
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