Historic Aerials

**Scca28** · 02-09-2011, 06:05 AM

NETR Online • Historic Aerials
"http://www.historicaerials.com"
Don't know if this was covered here before, but I know a lot of you might be interested in seeing what your area looked like back in the '20s,'40s,'60s, etc. It lets you scan around just like any map site, but you can change through different decades and the images are perfect matches. Not all areas have the same years covered, but some go back pretty far. Enjoy!

**puzzles** · 02-09-2011, 09:46 AM

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

**dennis DeBrandt** · 02-09-2011, 11:27 AM

Neat photos. Those most enlarged look fuzzy. I guess there must be an optimal scale. Have you seen printed copies or are they delivered digitally. I have a 1930s aerial photo of Oak Lane in Philadelphia but it is not nearly as good as those you have alerted us to. Thanks Dennis DeBrandt

**Scca28** · 02-09-2011, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by dennis DeBrandt

Neat photos. Those most enlarged look fuzzy. I guess there must be an optimal scale. Have you seen printed copies or are they delivered digitally. I have a 1930s aerial photo of Oak Lane in Philadelphia but it is not nearly as good as those you have alerted us to. Thanks Dennis DeBrandt

Yeh, some of the years are sharper than others, but I had no idea they were taking aerials that far back. Here I thought all that started more recently with mapquest etc.
I'm a fan of anything Wildwood, and it's neat to see the changes that place went through over the years! Also, I checked out where we live now (Welsh and the Blvd) and way back it was just a field and what looks like a horse track. Neat stuff!
I have not ordered any prints from them yet, but I have a few in mind I'd like to get, without their logo through them..
Glad to share this with you guys!

**CHIOSSO** · 02-09-2011, 07:21 PM

I love the images, thanks for posting them Scca28.

**Colin P. Varga** · 02-10-2011, 11:56 AM

The Free Library and The Library company have large collections of aerial photos. These came in very handy for a client of mine that was fighting neighborhood "historic" "preservationists" that were trying to remove a driveway. Thanks to these collections I was able to prove that the driveway was original to the building which was built in the 1920's.

**ZARK** · 02-13-2011, 09:26 AM

I have seen this site before, and was not thrilled with the lack of detail (fuzzy)and with the watermarks. Though it is interesting as you go through the years and see how I-95 slowly destroyed whole swaths of neighborhoods... I still like this site better Dallin Aerial Survey Company Photographs : Hagley Digital Archives