UM Library makes historic aerial photos available online
Some of the state’s earliest known aerial photography now is available online courtesy of the University of Montana Mansfield Library.
The images are part of an extensive collection of aerial photography taken by the U.S. Forest Service and held in the library’s Archives and Special Collections department.
“The Forest Service collection we received has tens of thousands of aerial images dating from the 1930s to the 1970s,” said Professor Donna McCrea, the head of archives. “We are focusing on the imagery from the 1930s. So far we’ve created an online index map that indicates the latitude and longitude of about 35,000 images, and we’ve made about 3,500 images available online.”
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