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Title: [North Area, Sacramento]
Contributor: Cartwright, Vern W., 1922-2003
Cartwright Aerial Surveys
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2010-3930.
Covers: shows area from Fair Oaks Boulevard to Roseville Road; Roseville Road to Mission. "Made by Cartwright Photo Co., Scale =800', April 11, 1948" -- lower right corner.
Visible: Haggin Oaks Golf Course; American River; Del Paso Country Club, American River.
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.
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Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Aerial photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 10 x 8 in.
Language: English
Subject: Housing developments--California--Sacramento
Streets--California--Sacramento
Golf--California--Sacramento
Rivers--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
American River (Calif.)--Aerial photographs
Photographic prints
Aerial photographs
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)
American River (Calif.)

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