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Title: [Town & Country area]
Contributor: Cartwright, Vern W., 1922-2003
Cartwright Aerial Surveys
Date Created and/or Issued: 194u
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: 2010-3817.
Covers: area between Fulton, Marconi, Morse, Auburn Boulevard.
Visible: Town & Country Village, Del Paso Country Club; shows beginning construction of Village Theater. "Gerry Stusick" -- handwritten on verso.
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.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Aerial photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 7 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.
Language: English
Subject: Housing developments--California--Sacramento
Shopping centers--California--Sacramento
Golf--California--Sacramento
Country clubs--California--Sacramento
Building construction--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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