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Sunday, 19 April 2009

Vintage Aerial Photos of Maine Farms

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Steve Berry of Vintage Aerial is traveling the back roads of Maine, trying to identify farms photographed from the air 40 years ago.Berry, age 67 and retired from his job as a salesman for an aerial photo company, learned a few years ago that a rival company, State Aerial Farm Statistics Inc., had at least 25 million aerial photos of farms squirreled away in a warehouse in Toledo. The photos date back to the 1960s and are a visual record of the changing American rural landscape.Berry convinced State Aerial that the vintage photos, combined with...
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