Sunday, January 01, 2012

Gimme That Old Time Photography


An aerial photo from the 1930's (in PA) aquired from:
a detail from that, hinting of an Indian Trail, bounded by stone rows, as are the non-square "fields" or ancient Indian Resource zones:
(Below) An aerial photo from the 1930's (in CT) used in this post:

Also hinting of Indian Trails, bounded by (zigzag) stone rows, as are the non-square "fields" or ancient Indian Resource zones.
This takes you to fairly recent in PA where the path might be fairly untouched:

This takes you to fairly recent in CT, where the paths are now modern roads:
(Camera-less, I recently drove up Grey Fox and Barnhill, surprised at the stone work that still exists - and the huge rockpiles I plan on photographing...)

And:

a 1930's photo (I can't remember where I aquired it) showing some cross and rail wooden fences (over stone rows?):

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:41 PM

    I’d suspect the features that appear on the second photo down to show an “Indian fort”. Not unlike many Iron Age forts of Europe.
    Rob

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  2. The light marks in the field in the top left??

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