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1. Timothy Walker

   

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   12/7/2013 1:12 AM

   Where can I go to look for vintage aerial photos of golf courses?
   
   Google searches turned up nil...
   
   Thanks

   
   
   
   
2. Andy Jorgensen

   

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   12/7/2013 7:12 AM

   Check with your property appraisers office. Ours has them back 15 or so years.

   
   
   
   
3. Timothy Walker

   

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   12/7/2013 8:12 AM

   Thanks Andy,
   
   I am waiting on a response from the planners office.
   
   Hope they can be speedy with a response haha

   
   
   
   
4. Greg George

   

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   12/8/2013 7:12 PM

   I don't know what is available to you but in our area, It seems like the USDA has done a lot of aerial mapping. At our local level, we have had good luck getting these from our local Soil Conservation Service (now known as NRCS)
   You might find this on the county level
   Greg George
   North Conway CC
   North Conway NH

   
   
   
   
5. David Brandenburg

   

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   12/8/2013 7:12 PM

   Our county as do most in Wisconsin have aerial photos as part of the land records / tax listing departments. Ours are every ten years and are pretty neat as our area has really changed from farmland to industrial. Ours go back to 1972 but the quality is not as good before 1990.

   
   
   
   
6. Steve Nelson

   

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   12/9/2013 9:12 AM

   In our area UCSB (bought the collection from Whittier college) and UCLA have the Fairchild Aerial Photography collections. Fairchild did aerial survey work for decades from the 1920's onward. UCSB has the survey shots, UCLA has the obliques. From UCSB you can most likely get one aerial per decade of anywhere in Socal going back to the 1920's.
   
   Although these collections are California centric, Fairchild did other areas of the US as well, so giving one of these libraries a call might at least give you a lead to where other regional collections are housed.

   
   
   
   
7. Sam Welch

   

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   12/9/2013 2:12 PM

   Google Earth has some, too. If you're looking at your course, down at the bottom left hand corner there should be a clock symbol and a year. Click on the year, and it goes to that year (should be as far back as they have), then at the top left you'll get a slider that lets you select from whatever historical images they have. You have to zoom in pretty close before it shows up, and it only goes back to 1993 in my area, not sure if that changes in other areas or not.