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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
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Description
2010-3945.
Covers: shows downtown Sacramento looking south from North Sacramento; shows West Sacramento, Bryte, Broderick.
Visible: American and Sacramento Rivers; various bridges; drainage canal; City Filtration Plant; Southern Pacific rail yards; Lake Washington
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.
Also have negative; second copy.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Aerial photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : print ; 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
Language
English
Subject
Sacramento Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Capitols--California--Sacramento
Rivers--California--Sacramento
Bridges--California--Sacramento
Railroad shops & yards--California--Sacramento
Irrigation canals & flumes--California--Sacramento
Farms--California--Yolo County
Croplands--California--Yolo County
Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
West Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
American River (Calif.)--Photographs
Sacramento River (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place
California
Sacramento
Yolo County
Sacramento (Calif.)
West Sacramento (Calif.)
American River (Calif.)
Sacramento River (Calif.)

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