Historical Aerial Photographs

    LSU Campus from the 1930s to the 1980s

    The images were scanned from original aerial photographs housed in the Cartographic Information Center collection.  All of the images are oriented with north at the top. The Mississippi River is west of the Campus (left hand side of the images).

    September 28,1931 aerial photograph of the LSU campusMarch 5, 1934 aerial photograph of the LSU campusFebruary 28, 1941 aerial photograph of the LSU campusNovember 11, 1953 aerial photograph of the LSU campus

    April 28,1959 aerial photograph of the LSU campusOctober 28,1967 aerial photograph of the LSU campusOctober 28,1983 aerial photograph of the LSU campus
     

    1934 Aerial Photographs of the Atchafalaya Basin

    The Google Earth linked below provides provides the locations of the flight lines from the U.S. Army taken in 1933-1934. Please note: you cannot access the individual frames from this website - please contact us in order to request the aerial photographs. Each pin represents a specific frame location. The flight lines are marked in red. 

    Download the Atchafalaya Photograph Index kml file and open it in Google Earth.

     

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