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The Cambridge Historical Commission Architectural Survey Collection is ten file cabinets full of information on nearly every building, demolished or extant, in the city of Cambridge. The collection includes systematic architectural survey records for each building in the city, clippings, photographs, maps, ephemera, and more. The collection is actively managed with several new entries each week. Forty file cabinet drawers are filled with folders, each named according to a Street Address or address range. Some folders show additional information on their name-tab to designate a Named Place, such as Buildings, Streets and Squares, Canals, Bridges... Some folders also designate specific subjects, such as "City Hall Brick and Mortar Studies"... The Cambridge Digital Architectural Survey Project (C-DASH) has been a multi-year effort to digitize and publish the Architectural Survey. Through a semi-automated process, the scanned files are sorted into a hierarchy of Documents, categorized by..