Re: [CBQ] Re: Historic Aerial Photos

[Bill Hirt <whirt@sbcglobal.net>]

Rich,

You may be surprised, but your local library may have a subscription or reciprocal borrowing rights so you can view them at home using their web site as a portal and your library card. The Mid-Continent Public Library System in the Kansas City area has a complete subscription to the Sanborn map files for the entire United States <http://www.mymcpl.org/online-resources/research-database/4470>. You just log in to their web site using your library card and you have complete access. You can download the map files as Adobe PDF files for printing and viewing. I have done so with many of the Q locations in my area of interest. I was just looking at the Omaha and Council Bluffs area in the past week.

For those outside the Kansas City area, you can pay a $20 card fee at the Midwest Genealogy Center. Unfortunately, you must do this in person. You then get 6 months of access. It can be renewed every six months (but has to be done in person). If you planned to do a lot of Sanborn work, that would probably be a pretty good deal as well as convenient.

Also for you Illinois residents (like Rich ;)), here is a site I found by Google that has Illinois Sanborn maps online:

<http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_sanborn.php?CISOROOT=/sanborn>. You will need a library card from an Illinois college, community college or university to access.

Bill Hirt

On 2/23/2013 3:03 PM, rgortowski@aol.com wrote:

Randy,

 

Others have pointed this site out on the list several times.  I'm just trying to locate some of the towns I plan on modeling and I need to get the index to try to make the search easier.  It's amazing the tools that are available on the net.  I'm also going to try to go to Northern Illinois University and see if I can view the Sanborn maps.  That would help a great deal.

 

Rich G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Gordon-Gilmore <randy@prototrains.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 2:47 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Historic Aerial Photos

 

At 12:59 PM 2/23/2013, Rich wrote:

http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/ilhap/county/j_winnebago.html

That is fantastic, Rich! I have just emailed the Nebraska Department
of Natural Resources to ask if they have any plans to do the same.

In the meantime, though not as vintage or as detailed of photographs,
nationwide photos are available at the USGS:

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

You enter your location of interest, click "Data Sets" and choose
"Aerial Photo Single Frames", then click "Results" to get a
photographic catalog of what is available.

Unfortunately, for my research into the Schuyler Subdivision, the
aerial photos available are only 1955 and newer, and the photo scale
varies with year.

Randy
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Randy Gordon-Gilmore
http://www.prototrains.com
randy@prototrains.com

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