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UIUC Scanned Air Photo Indexes Online
Illinois Air Photo Web Resources
2005 Description of Statewide Digital Orthophotography Program
From Illinois GIS Notes
Illinois Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles
Illinois Historical Aerial Photography (ILHAP) 1937-1947
Vintage Aerial — Illinois
Oblique aerial photography
Chicago Aerial Photo Services (CAPS)
University of Illinois at Chicago
City of Chicago Property Viewer
Click on GIS Map Viewer with 80 Acre Maps, select Map Layers then Aerial Map
Cook County GIS Department Aerial Imagery
Downloadable images for multiple years
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) Air Photo Archive
Archives and webmap, photos 1970-2001
City of Champaign Historic Map
Aerial photography, plus some scanned older maps, 1936- Application allows for swipe comparison of different years
US Federal Government Air Photo Web Resources
Aerial Photography Field Office, USDA (Salt Lake City)
Sells photography flown by USDA agencies from 1955 to the present including NHAP and NAPP. Order prints directly from office; order forms and pricing information available at site. To view their catalog, click Imagery Products under Browse by Subject, then select Imagery Catalogson the left. You can then select the catalog you want.
Cartographic Archives and Architectural Division, National Archives and Records Administration
Holds pre-1955 USDA photography plus early photographs from other Federal agencies and photography taken during World War I and II. Users must consult with Archive staff to determine material availability, then order reproductions through private vendors.
EarthExplorer
One stop shopping for obtaining geo-spatial datasets from USGS data collections. Navigate and search via interactive map or text search to identify, browse, and download Landsat satellite imagery, Radar data, UAS data, digital line graphs, digital elevation model data, aerial photos, Sentinel satellite data, some commercial satellite imagery including IKONOS and OrbView3, land cover data, digital map data from the National Map, and many other datasets. Free registration required to download data.
EROS Data Center (Sioux Falls, SD)
Houses and distributes remotely-sensed data, NHAP and NAPP photography, and USGS digital cartographic data. Use EarthExplorer, PhotoFinder, and MapFinder to determine product availability.