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[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Business district] – Antique Wall Art

[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Business district], c1934 Oct. 11. — historic photograph
[Aerial views of Birmingham, Alabama: Business district], c1934 Oct. 11.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Birmingham, Alabama, grew quickly from its founding in 1871 as an industrial city built around iron, steel and coal, and this aerial view captures its commercial core from above in the early 1930s. Aerial photographs of American cities became popular in this period, when airplanes made it possible to show streets, rooftops and rail lines in a single sweeping frame. The record credits Aero-graphic Corp. of Louisville, Kentucky, a firm that sold such views, and notes the date as October 11, 1934, though that date comes from an unverified caption card. The print is a useful record of how the downtown was laid out during the Depression years.

Created / publishedc1934 Oct. 11.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Aero-graphic Corp., Louisville, Ky. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160772

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