Field notes & histories

Category: <span>Abandoned Landmarks</span>

Abandoned Landmarks

A guide to writing about labor, families and displacement—not just dramatic decay.

Abandoned Landmarks

How archival image series restore people, work and context to abandoned places.

Abandoned Landmarks

A repeatable method for turning a viral image into a sourced local-history story.

Abandoned Landmarks

Why preservation teams sometimes stabilize ruins instead of restoring them to look new.

Abandoned Landmarks

A field guide to access, safety, preservation and respectful photography.

Abandoned Landmarks

A dramatically depopulated city at the meeting of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

Abandoned Landmarks

A Smoky Mountains community shaped first by timber and later by tourism.

Abandoned Landmarks

An ancestral Zuni pueblo and archaeological landscape that requires cultural respect.

Abandoned Landmarks

Concrete pools and foundations of an enormous nineteenth-century public bathhouse.

Abandoned Landmarks

A remarkably intact mining complex in the mountains of Wrangell–St. Elias.