Aerial photo's "Then & Now" - 56k Beware, contains big images

[Boyd]

And now for something completely different

Then and now of Belco (Bethlehem Loading Company). Click on the image to see it full size:



And here's another version. I overlaid a high contast 1930 photo on top of the 2002 image (click to see the big image):

 

[Teegate]

They are different. I wonder if the aerials were classified during that time?

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Manufacturing was finished there by 1919, so I think we may be looking at ruins for the most part: http://www.aclink.org/PARKS/mainpages/historic.asp

What is the story behind the 1930 photos? Were they comissioned by the state of NJ for planning/surveying purposes?

 

[Teegate]

What is the story behind the 1930 photos? Were they comissioned by the state of NJ for planning/surveying purposes?

I don't know the answer to that. Also, we have to find out the exact year they were taken. I was told 1931.

Guy

 

[Ben Ruset]

Ben,

Even the links download to your drive. That don't seem correct. Is there anything you can do? Sorry about my previous large photo's but I like my photo's big. Shows so much more detail.

Guy

When you link to the large size images in the gallery it does that. You're not linking to a .jpg or a .gif, you're linking to a .php file which then grabs the appropriate image.

The only way for me to "fix" these would be to not upload them to the gallery, which I'd rather not do.

 

[Boyd]

Ben, it works for me like this (see my post above):

[ url=http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/showfull.php?photo=5673 ] [ img ]http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/data/529/medium/belco.jpg [ /img ] [ /url ]

 

[Teegate]

I was able to fix the first one, but the second I could not. From now on I am just going to upload it to my webspace and not the gallery.

Guy

 

[Boyd]

Using the example above:

[ url=http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/showfull.php?photo=5673 ]

Find the photo in your gallery and substitute the correct number for the 5673 above. You will find it in the "Linked Thumbnails" field under the gallery picture.

[ img ] [noparse]http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/data/529/medium/belco.jpg[/noparse] [ /img ] [ /url ]

Now delete the bold text above and replace it with the entire "Direct Link" field at the bottom of the page in the gallery.

(in the above example's I've put whitespace between the brackets so you can read it)

 

[amf]

..... One thing that really strikes me is just how deforested much of the pine barrens appear to be in those old photos. Looks like there may have been some pretty bleak landscapes back then.

I think this is an aspect of land use today folks often overlook. If you take an area that is RELATIVELY free of housing sprawl (I know this gets harder and harder, but there are still some areas in the Pines & deep southern NJ, probably far NW jersey as well), we typically will have more forest and wetlands and less farmland than 100 years ago. Back then, wood was fuel and land had to produce food for man and beast. Now, wood is not the fuel of choice, our beasts run on petroleum, and an acre of land is much more productive, allowing formerly marginal farmland to revert to forest or wetland.

 

[Ben Ruset]

Using the example above:

[ url=http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/showfull.php?photo=5673 ]

Find the photo in your gallery and substitute the correct number for the 5673 above. You will find it in the "Linked Thumbnails" field under the gallery picture.

[ img ] [noparse]http://gallery.njpinebarrens.com/data/529/medium/belco.jpg[/noparse] [ /img ] [ /url ]

Now delete the bold text above and replace it with the entire "Direct Link" field at the bottom of the page in the gallery.

(in the above example's I've put whitespace between the brackets so you can read it)

Yes, but there's a full size image that's bigger than the "medium" image, and thats what I am linking to.

 

[Boyd]

In my post above (http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/showpost.php?p=37083&postcount=21) I've used the medium size jpg as the inline image and linked to the script which displays the full size image. So you end up with exactly what you'd get by going to my gallery and clicking on the medium sized image. Then if you click anywhere within the full sized image the window will go away.

Why do you use the watermark.php function?

[noparse]

[/noparse]

This forces you to download the image itself where showfull.php just puts the same image in a new window. If you want to save that image to your local hard drive there should be a right-click command to do that (there are a couple options in Safari).

 

[Ben Ruset]

Yeah, I was just going to the full size image, right clicking to get the URL, and using that as a link.

Your way is better.

 

[Jerseyman]

I don't know the answer to that. Also, we have to find out the exact year they were taken. I was told 1931.

Guy

Guy:

Obviously an aerial photo flyover of the entire state took some time to accomplish. I suspect the effort began sometime in the third or fourth quarter of 1930 and continued into 1931. I know that the photo work in the Pennsauken area of Camden County occurred sometime between February and April 1931, based on specific dredge spoil deposition information, but I can't provide such precise information for the other images. I will have to inquire with the folks at the New Jersey State Archives on whether they have any information on the agency and rationale behind the initial project and whether any records exist for the progress of the photography.

Best regards,
Jerseyman