Note from moderator: Doesn't answer the question about SOUTH DAKOTA
aerials but perhaps others would like to know about this Illinois aerial
resource.
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Subject: FW: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:01:31 -0600
From: Doug Behm <[log in to unmask]>
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From: DMT '09 - Digital Mapping Techniques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Beaverson, Sheena
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:35 PM
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Subject: Re: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
I was going to suggest this source as well. We have been digitizing the
Illinois collection and making them available on-line. 62 counties down
and 40 to go! Illinois photos are online here:
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/ilhap/
We also have some background on-line on our Collection History web page:
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/ilhap/history.html Here is an
excerpt:
On May 12, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was originally administered by the
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (USDA-AAA). Since the mid-1930s, the USDA-AAA, now the
USDA Farm Services Agency, periodically acquired nationwide aerial
photographs by county. These aerial photographs were originally used by
the USDA-AAA to assess the nation's agricultural lands and served as the
basis for the national soil surveys.
There are a handful of states for which the original negatives were
destroyed by the National Archives, Illinois is one of these. Only
photo prints that were made in the late 1930's and early 1940's
survive... scattered in different libraries within the state. You might
wish to contact the SD state library or librarians at major universities
within the state.
-- Sheena Beaverson
Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/nsdihome
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From: DMT '09 - Digital Mapping Techniques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Parrish, Jay
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:02 PM
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US Dept of Ag flew starting around 1938 onward-covering all farm land
(The PA Survey's photos are online at www.pennpilot.psu.edu)
Jay Parrish PhD, PG
State Geologist/Director
Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, DCNR
3240 Schoolhouse Rd.
Middletown, PA 17057
717-702-2053
717-702-2017 main office
717-903-5223 cell
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From: DMT '09 - Digital Mapping Techniques [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Doug Behm
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:57 PM
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Subject: FW: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
FYI, if you know of a resource for this time period.
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Douglas D. Behm [log in to unmask]
University Geologist
Office of Land Management and Real Estate Services
University of Alabama
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Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:12 PM
To: Johnson, Stephen
Subject: Re: 1943 aerial maps of the USA done by the Army
With your permission I can post this inquiry to a discussion list for
map librarians (which I moderate).
Angie
Johnson, Stephen wrote:
> Hi Everyone, I am working with the head of our criminal justice
program at the University of South Dakota who does a lot of work for the
cold case unit in our state attorney general's office. That unit is
working to bring closure to a disappearance [likely murder] of a person
from a farm in South Dakota circa. 1941 or 1942. This was a case that
was never solved.
>
> What we've been told is that the United States Army used to fly
missions in which aerial photographs were taken of the entire United
States in a grid map format [as I'm reconstructing my notes from a phone
conversation with him this morning]. My faculty member is of the
understanding that these aerial photography flights ended in 1943. We
need to get ahold of those aerial photographs from that year for grid
numbers 475 and 452 here in South Dakota. Do any of you in govdoc-l
land know where or who to begin to go to for getting ahold of these
photographs? Is this something that the National Archives would have?
Somebody also told me that it might be available through the National
Air and Space Museum.
>
> More than anything, thank you very much for your time and
consideration of this.
>
> Stephen Johnson
> Business and Distance Education Librarian
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