Image Number

• PR15241

Year

• 1947

Date Note

• Photographed on January 17, 1947.

Series Title

• General: Print collections
• Specific: Print collections N2004-9, Sherman M Fairchild collection

General Note

• The photographer Sherman Fairchild was born in 1896 in Oneonta, New York. He was contracted by the government to develop a camera for aerial photography; such cameras already existed but produced highly distorted photographs due to slow shutter speeds which could not keep up with the movement of the flying plane. Fairchild developed a camera where the shutter was placed inside the lens which allowed the camera to be fast enough to produce photographs with minimal distortion. After World War I the Army made his cameras their standard aerial cameras.

Rights

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Photographer/Personal Author

• Fairchild, Sherman M., 1896-1971.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 8 x 10 in.

Subject Term

• Roads--Florida--Dade County--Miami--Aerial photographs
• Aerial views--Florida--Dade County--Miami
• Aerial photographs

Geographic Term

• Dade County (Fla.)--Aerial photographs.
• Miami (Fla.)--Aerial photographs.
• Florida State Highway 90 (Fla.)--Aerial photographs.
• Tamiami Trail (Fla.)--Aerial photographs.
• United States Highway 41--Aerial photographs.

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