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Rural/Farm Life

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Kali

(56,008 posts)
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 12:46 PM Feb 2018

Up in the Sky: Saving Old Farm Photos, One Roll at a Time [View all]

https://www.drovers.com/article/sky-saving-old-farm-photos-one-roll-time?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpJeU1UZzBNRGM0TWpaaCIsInQiOiJua1c2eFAySEhJdURpVDZPUnlqM2Q2MXBVYzc2dzdsT3hmaGFXeHFCQlJKUmgrb0kyaUdJWTZKTitZd0xneXR3MmEySllTb0RtamdkRm9NeTNMdHZ3QjZZaytUb1duRGN4dHpET3RVb1JcL1wvU2NUY3huYXJhQmNkNXRINXRnS3IrIn0%3D

“Go out and take pictures of every farm you see.”

Seems like an odd thing to ask an airplane pilot. It’s a lot of farms and a lot of film. More than 60 years after that first pilot took that first picture, a company called Vintage Aerial is trying to match rolls and rolls of aerial farmland photos - 18 million photos worth - to the families who have lived and worked on that land for generations.
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