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Catedral Santa Maria la Menor
The oldest cathedral in the Americas is Catedral Santa Maria la Menor located in Santo Domino, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic was the first island in the Americas to be taken over by the Spanish after Christopher…
Santo Domingo Aerial
An aerial view over Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
New York Skyline
Aerial photograph showing Manhattan and Brooklyn looking West towards the city. This image shows the New York skyline as it was known from the late 1960s until the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine is located in the south coast region of the state. Portland is home to almost one quarter of Maine’s residents, and is known as the “metropolitan hub” of this region.
University of Wisconsin, Madison Campus
The University of Wisconsin, Madison Campus situated along Lake Mendota. The Madison Campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Wisconsin system, established in 1849. Notable architectural landmarks on the campus include the Science Hall…
Boston: South End, Side Street
The Boston neighborhood known as the South End (see notes) was once marshland that was filled in the 1840s as a solution to overcrowding in the Back Bay area. Renowned architect Charles Bulfinch created a plan for the South End neighborhood’s…
Boston: South End
The Boston neighborhood known as the South End (see notes) was once marshland that was filled in the 1840s as a solution to overcrowding in the Back Bay area. Renowned architect Charles Bulfinch created a plan for the South End neighborhood’s…
Boston: South End, Brick Sidewalk
The Boston neighborhood known as the South End (see notes) was once marshland that was filled in the 1840s as a solution to overcrowding in the Back Bay area. Renowned architect Charles Bulfinch created a plan for the South End neighborhood’s…
Boston: South End
The Boston neighborhood known as the South End (see notes) was once marshland that was filled in the 1840s as a solution to overcrowding in the Back Bay area. Renowned architect Charles Bulfinch created a plan for the South End neighborhood’s…
Baltimore: Row Houses
Row houses were popular in urban areas of the East Coast throughout the 19th century. Baltimore’s urban landscape has the best representation of the row house architecture, varying from grand manses to middle-class homes in various architectural…
Baltimore: USS Constellation; Old Harry Ship and McCormick Spice Factory
This 1978 photograph shows the USS Constellation at the inner harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. It was moved here in 1968 as part of the city’s revitalization plan. In the 1970’s the Inner Harbor emerged as the cultural center of Baltimore with the USS…
Baltimore: Inner Harbor, Docks
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor has become the cultural center of the city since the waterfront revitalization project launched in the 1970’s. This 1978 photograph show’s the docks before they were developed into the National Aquarium and various commercial…
Baltimore: Skyline, Tower Building, City Hall
This view of the Baltimore skyline show’s the city in transition during the revitalization process that began around 1970. The 18 story building in the center of the photograph is the Maryland Casualty Company Tower, known locally as the Tower…
Baltimore: Federal Hill, Museum of Science, Inner Harbor
The Maryland Science Center (MSC) was built in the Inner Harbor in 1976, but grew from the Maryland Academy of Sciences formed in 1797. When the MSC opened in June 1976 it had both interactive exhibits and a state of the art planetarium. Since then…
Baltimore: Row Housing
An example of row housing in Baltimore, Maryland. While row houses are popular in many cities, Baltimore in particular has them in the thousands in various architectural styles. This 1978 photograph from the Smolski collection shows an unidentified…
Baltimore: Row Housing
Row houses were popular in urban areas of the East Coast throughout the 19th century. Baltimore’s urban landscape has the best representation of the row house architecture, varying from grand manses to middle-class homes in various architectural…
Baltimore: National Aquarium, Inner Harbor
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland. Photographed from a restaurant across the Inner Harbor, this 1985 view of the National Aquarium is before the historic ships, including the USS Torsk were moored as permanent installations. The building…
Baltimore: Harborplace Mall Light Street Pavilion
This interior photograph shows the Light Street Pavilion at Harborplace Mall. This Inner Harbor mall was opened in 1980 as the centerpiece of the downtown revival. The mall originally consisted of two two-story pavilions, Pratt St. and Light St.…
Baltimore: Row Housing
Row houses were popular in urban areas of the East Coast throughout the 19th century. Baltimore’s urban landscape has the best representation of the row house architecture, varying from grand manses to middle-class homes in various architectural…
Baltimore: Inner Harbor Plaza
The Inner Harbor Plaza is a tourist friendly area in downtown Baltimore that has been described as a model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment. This 1985 photograph gives an impression of the amount of draw the museums, shopping and…
Baltimore: Inner Harbor, Maryland Science Center
This southwest facing aerial view of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor shows it in a transitional stage. The Maryland Science Center is without it’s later added IMAX theater and lobby. The long tan building on Light St. is Christ Church Harbor apartments, an…
Baltimore: USS Constellation, Inner Harbor
An aerial photograph of the USS Constellation shows it in it’s deteriorating condition prior to it’s 1990’s restoration. The 19th century fighting ship was used in military service through World War II before ending up in Baltimore as a relic.
Baltimore: National Aquarium, inner Harbor
The National Aquarium in Baltimore photographed in 1985 shows it in it’s original form under the direction of Peter Chermayeff of the Cambridge Seven. Additions to the aquarium were made in 1990 and 2004. The National Aquarium is in Baltimore’s Inner…
Baltimore: Cross Street Market Interior
An interior view of the Cross Street Market is located on Federal Hill in Baltimore. This popular market, established in 1846, has gone through a couple incarnations. It’s current structure, completed in 1952, is 30,000-sqaure-feet and hosts about…
Baltimore: Cross Street Market Interior
The Cross St. Market is one of Baltimore’s six surviving market places. Located in Federal Hill and close to the Inner Harbor, it is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike. The Cross St. Market sells produce, fresh meat and seafood. The…
Baltimore: Cross Street Market
The Cross St. Market on Charles St. is a one of Baltimore’s six surviving marketplaces. This structure was built in 1952 after a fire destroyed the two story Italian revival building that had stood since the turn of the century. The Cross St. Market…
Miami Beach: Aerial Photograph of Oceanfront, Hotels
An aerial photograph of La Gorce island in Miami Beach, Florida. In the foreground is La Gorce Golf Course and Country Club. The eastern shore is lined with hotels and resorts.
Baltimore: Mount Vernon Place
The Washington Monument and Museum at Mount Vernon Place, visible beyond busy Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. The monument is 178 feet tall and sits atop a hill in the heart of Baltimore. Architect Robert Mills designed the monument. Completed…
Baltimore: Row House Architecture
Row houses were popular in urban areas of the East Coast throughout the 19th century. Baltimore’s urban landscape has the best representation of the row house architecture, varying from grand manses to middle-class homes in various architectural…
Miami Beach: Bal Harbour
This aerial view shows Bal Harbor, Bal Harbor beach, and Biscayne Bay. At frame left, just above the small island, is where Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus would be located. In this image some of the early construction for the…
Miami Beach: Bal Harbour Area
This southeast facing photograph looks across Bal Harbor toward Miami Beach’s Oceanfront. Visible at the bottom of the frame is construction of Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus.
Miami Beach: Bal Harbour
An east facing aerial photograph shows Miami Beach’s Oceanfront and Bal Harbor Islands in the late 1970’s. In the 1970’s Miami Beach’s tourism industry saw declines. Over the next decade, hundreds of Cuban refugee’s would move into the area which in…
Miami Beach: Aerial View of Bal Harbour, Collins Ave.
Looking south, this aerial photograph show’s Miami Beach’s Oceanfront in the late 1970’s. Clearly visible is the string of hotels in the style now known as Miami Modernist Architecture (MiMo) along Collins Ave. In the late 2000’s preservationists…
Miami Beach: Collins Ave. Hotels, Oceanfront; Carillon Hotel
At the center of the aerial photograph is the Carillon Hotel, a wonderful example of the Miami Modernist Architectural (MiMo) style designed by Norman Giller. First opened in 1957, it has since been repurchased and modified. The current owners and…
Miami Beach: Versailles Hotel Condo, Jamie Tuttle Causeway; Aerial View
The Versailles Hotel Condo was built in 1940 in a style between Miami Beach’s Art Deco and Modernist style. Behind the condo is the Jamie Tuttle Causeway, which connects the beach with Midtown Miami.
Miami Beach: Fontainebleau Hotel, Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel; Collins Ave.
The Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach is the one of the grandest hotels in the city and perhaps the epitome of Miami Modernist Architecture (MiMo). Designed by Morris Lapidus, it is considered the most significant building of his career. Just to the…
Miami Beach: Aerial Photograph, Oceanfront Looking North
Looking north across Miami Beach’s Oceanfront show’s the hotels lined up on Collins Ave., the Bal Harbor Islands and Indian Creek, and finally North Miami on the horizon.
Miami Beach: Fontaineblue Hotel
The Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami Beach is the largest and grandest example of Miami Modernist Architecture (MiMo). It was designed by Morris Lapidus, who designed many of the building in Miami Beach, and completed in 1954. In 2008 the Fontainebleu…
Miami Beach: Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel
The Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach was completed in 1956. Designed by architect Morris Lapidus after completing the Fontainebleu, the Eden Roc’s neighbor. Lapidus used curvy and innovative designs that were widely criticized at the time they were…
Miami Beach: Aerial View of Residential Area
Residential neighborhoods and a drive in theater seen in this aerial photograph of Miami Beach. In the 1970s Miami Beach was largely a retirement community, but emigration from Cuba largely pushed them out in the following decade and effectively…
Miami Beach: Residential
An aerial view of Indian Creek shows private residences around Indian Creek Golf Course. According to satellite photographs none of these structures are still standing, the large house with the green roof seems to have been split into three smaller…
Miami Beach: Aerial View, Residential and Hotels; Carillon Hotel
The Sunset Islands were the last of the man made islands to be built in Biscayne Bay. During the 1920s a land boom fueled the creation of several man made islands in Biscayne Bay, but at the end of a decade it the boom ended and many realtors went…
Miami: The Miami Seaquarium
The Miami Seaquarium is an oceanquarium. It is located in Biscayne Bay. Completed in 1955, the Miami Seaquarium was South Florida’s first Marinelife attraction. The Miami Seaquarium is primarily a tourist destination, famous for it’s opportunities to…
Miami: Interstate 95
This aerial photograph looks south down Interstate 95 in Miami. In the foreground is the Golden Glades Interchange Extended. Interstate 95 is the longest running north-south route in the highway system, running from the Canadian border in Maine to…
Miami: Skyline from Key Biscayne
The Miami skyline as seen from Key Biscayne in 1978. At the right are some of Miami’s most famous skyscrappers, including th SunTrust International Center, completed in 1973, and One Biscayne Tower, a symbol of the city, completed in 1972. At the…
Miami: Beach Scene at Key Biscayne
Beach scene at Key Biscayne with the Miami skyline on the horizon. Key Biscayne is an island off the coast of Miami that’s principle economy is as a travel destination for tourists. As of 2004, the islands population was recorded at 10,324.
Miami: Beach Scene at Key Biscayne
Beach scene at Key Biscayne with the Miami skyline on the horizon. Key Biscayne is an island off the coast of Miami that’s principle economy is as a travel destination for tourists. As of 2004, the islands population was recorded at 10,324.
The Everglades: Sawgrass Prairie
This photograph from the Everglades shows a key element of this unique environment, the sawgrass prairie. Sawgrass thrives in the shallow slow moving water that occupies much of the southern portion of the Florida peninsula. Although not much else…
Miami Beach: South Beach Aerial View
This aerial photograph shows a South Beach that is virtually unrecognizable. Much of the area since this 1978 photograph has been redeveloped with high rise resorts.
The Everglades: Camp Ground
The Everglades is a popular destination for campers and those with mobile homes. This unidentified Everglades campground was photographed in 1978 and shows a different side of Miami’s tourism industry.