Scope and Contents From the Collection: These records were collected and created during the course of a survey of Columbus-area industrial sites undertaken in 1977 under the auspices of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), an agency of the Department of the Interior. The HAER was set up along the same lines as the better known Historic American Building Survey (HABS), also an agency of Interior. The HAER survey focused on industrial and engineering sites and generated measured drawings, photographs; and histories of...