Showing posts with label historic map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic map. Show all posts
20 April, 2009
1938 Aerial Map / Photo of Our Town, Illinois--Find Your Town
Posted by
Joanne
at
5:12 PM
Came across a nifty site today: historicaerials.com, which has current and vintage aerial photo maps of various regions across the U.S., searchable by street address. Although the resolution is pretty horrible, even for the modern images, it does provide a glimpse of how an area changes over the decades. The 1938 aerial photo of our block shows the gigantic greenhouses that I knew were across the street, based on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Our house, however, is just a grainy blob, and I can't see any sort of detail.
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aerial map,
historic map,
sanborn map
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