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Aerial Photographs
Using Aerial Photographs in the Cartographic Information Center
The Cartographic Information Center is open to the public but appointments are required to view aerial photographs. Effective August 2, 2004, patrons not affiliated with LSU as faculty, staff, or students will be charged an access fee to use the aerial photograph collection. Please read our Public Service Policy and Access Fee Policy. The staff is available to assist walk-in patrons to locate the appropriate photographs using photomosaic indexes and historic topographic maps. Photographs in the collection may not be borrowed or photocopied. An LSU professional photographer is available for digital or photographic reproductions upon request or the CIC staff can scan aerial photographs and maps. The CIC staff will not certify copies.
Effective August 2, the Cartographic Information Center staff will accept fax and e-mail requests for aerial photograph research and reproduction from researchers who cannot visit the CIC. Please read our Off Site Researcher policy.
Aerial Photographs of Louisiana
The Cartographic Information Center collection houses over 107,000 aerial photographs. The photographs depicting Louisiana and were taken between 1930 and 1987. The majority of the photographs were taken by the U.S.D.A. or the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development of entire parishes while many municipalities were photographed by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Recent photographs are available on the U.S.G.S.-Microsoft Terraserver.
Aerial Photomosaic Indexes of Other States
In addition to aerial photographs depicting Louisiana, the Cartographic Information Center also has aerial photomosaic indexes of counties in other states dating from the 1940s to the 1960s. The aerial photomosaic index, which list aerial photograph mosiac holdings by state, county and date, allows researchers to view a large area in small scale photographs. As with the Louisiana aerial photographs, recent aerial photographs of other states can be found on the Terraserver site.
Please Contact: John M. Anderson, Map Librarian and Director, Cartographic Information Center
(225) 578-6247
Send Comments or Questions to: janders@lsu.edu
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