Aerial Survey Photographs
PhotographerPhotographed by
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.
American
Date1934
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper
Album: Cardboard, metal and masonite, with cloth tape.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 15 3/4 x 12in. (40 x 30.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 16 7/8 x 14in. (42.9 x 35.6cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 17 1/2 x 17 1/8 x 3in. (44.5 x 43.5 x 7.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 16 7/8 x 14in. (42.9 x 35.6cm)
Other (album height x width x depth): 17 1/2 x 17 1/8 x 3in. (44.5 x 43.5 x 7.6cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionAerial mosaic views of areas in Connecticut, and in Massachusetts and New York along the Connecticut border. Features include populated areas, roads, rivers, lakes, farms, dwellings, commercial buildings, geological landscapes, and the shoreline of Long Island Sound.
Object number2005.150.0.1-.36
MarkingsOn verso, in red-violet ink, is a stamp containing a circle with text below it "WARNING Not to be repro / duced without permission / Engineering and Mosaic by / CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD / under supervision of / CONNECTICUT STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT". Inside the circle is fill-in form list stamped "Date Flown ----- / D.P. Order No. ----- / Negative No. ----- / Inspected by ----- / Identification / ----- / FAIRCHILD AERIALSURVEYS, Inc. / 300 Madison Avenue / New York City".The stamped-circle form list is filled in with handwriting, in black ink. All are completed as [Date Flown] "Spring 1934" / [Negative No.] " 8494-R-10" / [Inspected by] "Scale" / [Identification] "1" = 6000'" followed by the identified town of the image and "U.S.G.S."
On verso of the binder cover, in the center, is a rectangular label in black, gold, orange, and red ink which has an eagle and "NATIONAL / C78-16409, PAT / APP'D, FOR / MADE IN U.S.A. / STANITE". At lower left, in white pencil, is the accession number.InscribedOn verso, in pencil at lower left is accession number.
On verso, in black crayon, is "R.10" and the name of the town shown in aerial mosaic.NotesAlthough photographed from a high altitude, the images are very clear; they include great detail which can be seen with a magnifying glass.
Subject Terms
- Rivers
- Roads
- Lakes
- Cornwall (Conn.)
- Winsted (Conn.)
- Granby (Conn.)
- Hartford (Conn.)
- Tolland
- Woodstock (Conn.)
- New Milford (Conn.)
- Waterbury (Conn.)
- Meriden (Conn.)
- Middletown (Conn.)
- Norwich (Conn.)
- Danbury (Conn.)
- Derby (Conn.)
- New Haven (Conn.)
- Guilford (Conn.)
- Saybrook (Conn.)
- New London (Conn.)
- Stonington (Conn.)
- Stamford (Conn.)
- Norwalk (Conn.)
- Bridgeport (Conn.)
- Connecticut. National Guard.
- Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.
- Connecticut. State Highway Dept.
- Putnam (Conn.)
- Gilead
- Moosup (Conn.)
- Carmel (N.Y.)
- Clove (N.Y.)
- Sheffield (Mass.)
- Sandisfield (Mass.)
- Granville (Mass.)
- Springfield (Mass.)
- Palmer (Mass.)
- Brookfield (Mass.)
- Webster (Mass.)
- Albums
- Gelatin Silver Prints
- Hartford
- New Haven
- Saybrook
- Saybrook
- Stamford
- Stonington
- Tolland
- Meriden
- Middletown
- Norwalk
- Winsted
- Woodstock
- Derby
- Cornwall
- Granby
- Danbury
- Guilford
- New London
- New Milford
- Putnam
- Gilead
- Gilead
- Moosup
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Waterbury
- Norwich
- Bridgeport
- Graphics Cataloging
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