City of Bloomington Historical Photos

Dataset Basics

These aerial photos, provided by the City of Bloomington, are not georeferenced. To find aerial photos for a specific area, please review the index maps provided below. Each point represents the centerpoint of an aerial photo. Locate the index number for the centerpoint closest to your area of interest. Then use the Multi-file Download to locate the file. The first digits of the TIFF image name represent the image unique identifier. The last four digits of the TIFF image name are the source year.

May 11, 1949
May 10, 1961
May 16, 1967
April 17, 1972
November 15, 1975

Minimal metadata is available for the images. Bloomington City Engineering scanned the original 9 in by 9 in photos at 400dpi using a small flatbed scanner and saved as TIFF format using Paintshop Pro.

Available Datasets

City of Bloomington Historical Photos: 1949-1975

Aerial photos of the City of Bloomington from 1949, 1961, 1967, 1972, and 1975. These images are not georeferenced.

File Format

Coordinate System: none (no spatial reference)
File Type: TIFF

Indiana Historical Aerial Photo Index

The Indiana Geological and Water Survey (IGWS) has created the "Indiana Historical Aerial Photo Index" (IHAPI) interactive map to facilitate the identification and retrieval of historical aerial photographs. More than 950 large-format photomosaic index maps in the IGS archive were scanned and georeferenced, and then mosaicked to produce 466 county-based images dating from the 1930s to the 1980s.