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Title: [Downtown Sacramento]
Contributor: Cartwright, Vern W., 1922-2003
Cartwright Aerial Surveys
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2010-3938.
Covers: Sacramento River to American River (near Howe Ave. bridge); West Sacramento; area bordering Garden Highway;
Visible: Capitol; American and Sacramento River, various bridges - Capitol, I St.; Southern Pacific Railroad yard; City Filtration Plant; Sacramento Historic City Cemetery; Southside Park, McKinley Park.
Born in Medford, Oregon in 1922. After serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, settled in Sacramento, starting a commercial photography business stringing for various newspapers. Business, Cartwright Aerial Surveys, eventually specialized in aerial photography and mapping. Died in Sacramento in 2003.
Cartwright Aerial Surveys created aerial photographs to be used in producing topographic maps, plans, and profiles used in civil engineering; subdivision layouts and general purpose maps; products used for marketing studies and court documents. Photographs document growth and development of major urban areas of Northern California.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Aerial photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 9 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.
Language: English
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Capitols--California--Sacramento
Rivers--California--Sacramento
Neighborhoods--California--Sacramento
Railroad shops & yards--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
West Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
American River (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
Sacramento River (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)
West Sacramento (Calif.)
American River (Calif.)
Sacramento River (Calif.)

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