High altitude aerial photography of Minnesota

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Please note: all High Altitude holdings listed below are in paper format

1949 - 1953 | 1968 - 1969

1949 - 1953

Five special projects were flown for the Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers covering various portions of Minnesota from 1949 through 1953. Each section is listed by project number, year and scale and are shown on the index map below

PROJECT	YEAR	SCALE
70	1949/50	1:70,000
112	1953	1:62,000
113	1952	1:60,000
114 eastern	1953	1:60,000
114 western	1953	1:50,000
132	1953	1:69,000 (index only)

NOTE: Indexes for these flights can be found in the maroon Index #70

1949 - 1953 High Altitude Index Map

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1968 - 1969

High altitude aerial photographs for the entire state of Minnesota were taken by MarkHurd in 1968 - 1969 at an altitude of 45,000 feet. Photographs have a scale of 1:90,000 and are in order by North and South flight lines and exposure numbers within flight lines. North flight lines range from N2 to N31; South flight lines range from S1 to S17. Note that S17 and S16 appear before S1.

Indexes for these photographs can be found in the green Index #90

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