Clairmont Heights Civic Association

Attached are aerial photos of our area taken in 1940, 1949, 1960, and 1972 by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) of the US Department of Agriculture and in 1968 by the US Geological Survey. There are more recent images (1993, 1995, 2002) available at terraserver.

The first photos are centered on our neighborhood; the fourth covers all of northeast Atlanta. The attached files are in two formats: jpg and Mrsid. The jpg's are cropped and lower resolution copies of the original mrsid files which are very large. The first three are about 500 KB; the fourth, about 7MB. The mrsid files are in specialized format ("multiresolution seamless image database" or "Mr. Sid"). You may need to download a viewer to open the files (see below for a list of free viewers).

1940 jpg
1940 mrsid

1949 mrsid

1960 jpg
1960 mrsid

1968 mrsid

1972 jpg
1972 mrsid

You can find others online via the following url. It takes some arduous searching of the photo mosaics because there’s no precise index. They have photos also from 1938, 1955, 1966, and 1978 but they’re not all yet available online.

http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/gaph/html/dekalb.html

The photo images are in MrSid format and if you need a viewer, the following are free downloads.

Most powerful:
http://www.tatukgis.com/products/viewer/viewer.aspx

Standalone viewer from mrsid developer:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/download_sid.html

Plugin viewer from mrsid developer:
http://www.lizardtech.com/download/

Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com/