Harold T. Rib aerial photograph collection

Access and use

Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library MS2FL

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Mieko Palazzo

Email: speccoll@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-2220

Fax: (703) 993-2669

Web: scrc.gmu.edu

Restrictions:: There are no access restrictions.
Terms of access:: The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)

Preferred citation:: Harold T. Rib aerial photograph collection, C0236, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 12.5 Linear Feet (31 boxes)
Creator:: Rib, Harold T.
Abstract:: 31 boxes of aerial black and white photographs of areas around the world including: the United States, Canada, Algeria, and Japan. The photographs were taken between the 1930s and 1980s.
Language:: English .
Preferred citation:: Harold T. Rib aerial photograph collection, C0236, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Aerial black and white photographs of various cities and towns in the United States as well as some from abroad. Many of the photographs came from the private collection of Harold T. Rib, a professor and former chief of aerial surveys for the Bureau of Public Roads and the Federal Highway Administration.

Grove Hill.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Chambers, Jefferson, Lauderdale, and Colbert.

Maps and notes.

Photographed is Alaska in general and the Matanuska Valley.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Apache, Coconino, and Navajo.

Areas photographed include: Benson and San Francisco. Benson photographs are undated.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Boone, Clark, Franklin, Garland, Howard, Sevier, Logan, Marion, and Montgomery.

Counties photographed include: Perry and Pulaski.

Areas photographed include: Point Reyes and Yuba County.

Counties photographed include: Inyo, Kern, Mono Lake, San Bernardino, and Sacramento.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Alamosa, Saguache, Boulder, and Puebelo.

Counties photographed include: Pueblo, Denver, Logan, San Miguel, Washington, and Weld.

Areas photographed include: New Haven, Hartford County, and Litchfield.

Rehoboth.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Levy, Madison, Sarasota, and Suwannee.

Areas photographed include: Arran and Bradenton Beach.

Areas photographed include: Ellenton and Lake Apoka.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: Atlanta and Dekalb County.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: San Tooth, Bingham County, Idaho County, Kootenai County, and Oneida County.

Vermillion County.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: LaSalle, Clark, Iroquois, Wabash, and Will.

Areas photographed include: Canaan and Cedarville.

Areas photographed include: Loogootee and Metamora.

Riverwood.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Clark, Decatur, Harrison, Lawrence, Marion, Monroe, Orange, and Porter.

Counties photographed include: Allamakee, Clayton, Floyd, Lyon, Pottawattamie, and Winneshiek.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Butler, Cowlay, Doniphan, Elk, Geary, Jefferson, Logan, Lyon, Scott, Thomas, and Trego.

Areas photographed include: Bernstadtt and Boltsfork.

Areas photographed include: Bowling Green and Cranston.

Areas photographed include: Cromwell, Hadley, Rockfield, and Mammoth Cave.

Areas photographed include: Morehead, Franklin, and Paintsville.

Areas photographed include: Redbush, Sandy Hook, Sideview, and Upton.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Christian, Daviess, Edmonson, Fayette, Hart, McLean, and Lee.

Geologic map of the state. Parishes photographed include: Beauregard and Vermilion.

Areas photographed include: Penobsco, Somerset County, and Augusta.

Counties photographed include: Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery, and Washington.

Areas photographed include: Baltimore and Kensington.

Towson.

Ayers Village.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: Brockton and Mt. Toby.

Concord.

Areas photographed include: Monson, Mt. Holyoke, and Southbridge.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Huron, Ingham, Keweenaw, and Marguette.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Carver, Goodhue, Hennepin, and Isanti.

Counties photographed include: Lake, McLeod, Otter Tail, Olmsted, St. Louis, Scott, Swift, Todd, Wabasha, Wionna, Marshall, and Pack.

Areas photographed include: Ely and Vergas.

Field Problems.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: Chostaw County, Itawamba County, Lee County, Madison County, and Sumner.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Cole, Dent, Iron, Lincoln, McDonald, and Moniteau.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Custer, Judith Basin, Phillips, Roosevelt, Powder River, and Park.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Cedar, Hitchcock, Holt, Kimball, Knox, Pierce, Sheridan, Sioux, Hayes, Cheyenne, and Cass.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Lyon, Churchill, and Washo.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Coos, Grafton, Hillsboro, and Strafford.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Hunterdon and Middlesex.

Areas photographed include: Middlesex County, Ocean County, Somerset County, Ocean City, Sussex County, and Camden.

Sandoval County.

Some of the photos are undated. Areas photographs include: Elephant Butte, San Pedro, and Wingate.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Chaves, Grant, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Sallies Spring, and Sandoval.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Cattaraugas, Cortland, Greene, and Herkimer.

Counties photographed include: Niagara, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Cleming, Sullivan, Thompkins, and Wayne.

Counties photographed include: Saratoga, Rensselaer, and Albany.

Areas photographed include: Watervliet, Voorhesville, Schenectady, Selkirk, Albany County, and Bethlehem.

Erie County.

Areas photographed include: Monbur, Wayne County, and Kingston.

Counties photographed include: Onendaga and Madison.

Poughkeepsie.

Areas photographed include: Albany, Endicott, and Islip.

Areas photographed include: Lawrence, Millbrook, and Newcomb.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: Catawaba County, Louisburg, and Robbins.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: McHenry, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, and Divide.

Areas photographed include: Divide County, Kidder, Grand Forks, McHenry, McKenzie, Ward, and Larimore.

Areas photographed include: Berea, Dayton, and Fairborn.

Geologic map of state. Photographed areas include: Clark County, Lorain County, and Wadsworth.

Warren.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Atoka, Cimarron, Johnston, Leflare, Mayes, Okfuskee, and Pontotoc.

Counties photographed include: Pontotoc, Tulsa, and Texas.

Dalles.

Maps of the state.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed included: Coos, Jackson, Klamath, and Lane.

Counties photographed include: Lane, Marion, and Multnomah.

East Waterford.

Areas photographed include: Harrisburg, Patton, and Pocono.

Geologic map of the state. Counties photographed include: Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Carbon, Centre, Chester, and Clinton.

Counties photographed include: Columbia, Lycoming, Clinton, Erie, Fayette, Franklin, and Fulton.

Counties photographed include: Greene, Jefferson, Lancaster, Lebanon, McKean, and Pike.

Counties photographed include: Potter, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Tioga, Washington, Westmoreland, York, Wyoming, and McKean

Geologic map included.

Counties photographed include: Kent, Providence, and Washington.

Geologic map of state. Areas photographed include: Lancaster County and Greenwood.

Areas photographed include: Badlands, Spearfish, and Sturgis.

Geologic map of the state. Counties photographed include: Codington, Custer, Davison, Fall River and Hughes.

Counties photographed include: Hughes, Hutchinson, Lawrence, MarshallMeade, Mellette, Pennington, Shannon, and Stanley.

Areas photographed include: Hollow Springs and Martha.

Geologic map of state. Counties photographed include: Cannon, Cumberland, Hawkins, Madison, and Putnam.

Counties photographed include: Carroll, Stewart, and Robertson.

Counties photographed included: Rutherford, Sumner, and Cumberland.

Counties photographed include: Maury, Sullivan, Sumner, Campbell, Weakley, and Putnam.

Counties photographed include: Stewart, Carter, Crockett, Cumberland, Sumner, and Hawkins.

Counties photographed include: Cumberland, Hawkins, Robertson, and Carter.

Counties photographed include: Tipton, Carroll, Carter, Robertson, and Sumner.

Counties photographed include: Sumner, Rutherford, and Union.

Counties photographed include: Sumner, Robertson, and Rutherford.

Robertson County.

Counties photographed include: Rutherford, Cannon, Tipton, Madison, and McNairy.

Geologic map of the state. Counties photographed include: Bexar, Brown, and Dallas.

Areas photographed include: Laguna Vista, Dickens County, Dimmit County, Travis County, Potter County, Taylor County, Tarrant County, Motley County, and Reeves County.

Counties photographed include: McLennan, El Paso, Galveston, Gillespie, and Lynn.

Geologic map of the state. Photographed areas include Zion National Park and the following counties: Duchesne, Salt Lake, Wayne, Garfield, Box Elder, and Daggatt.

Photographed areas include: Acord Lakes, Marsh Park, and San Rafael.

Areas photographed include the following counties: Addison, Chittenden, Rockingham, Rutland, and Washington.

Highway maps of Virginia. Photographs of Fairfax.

Photographed areas include: Beach, Washington County, and Richmond area.

Dutch Gap.

Fairfax.

Fairfax County (FFCo).

Fairfax.

Some photographs are of unknown areas. Other areas photographed include: Augusta County, Alexandria (Fairfax County), and Fairfax County.

Fairfax.

Areas photographed include: Fairfax, Lexington, and Prince George.

Vienna.

Vienna. Some of the photographs are undated.

Geologic map of the state. Counties photographed include: Benton, Dalles, Lincoln, and Douglas.

Counties photographed include: Douglas, Franklin, Grays Harbor, and Klickitat.

Counties photographed include: Okanogan, Spokane, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.

Geologic map of the state. Counties photographed include: Berkeley, Gilmer, Grant, Jackson, Lewis, Kanawha, Mineral, Mingo, Pike, Tucker, and Arnoldsburg.

Geologic Map of the state. Areas photographed include: Fond du Lack County, Sheboygon County, Grant County, Jefferson County, Walworth County, Neenah, and Baraboro.

Geologic Map of Wyoming. Counties photographed include: Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Fremont, Johnson, Laramie, Park, Sheridan, Sweetwater, and Grohnin.

Acquisition information:

Donated by the George Mason University Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science in 2013.

Custodial history:

Harold T. Rib originally created this collection and donated it to the George Mason University Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science

Processing information:

Processing completed by Kerry Mitchell in 2014.

Arrangement:

Photographs are arranged alphabetically by country. Within each country folders are arranged alphabetically by state or province.

Physical location:

Map Case 31.3-31.4

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Aerial photographs
Places:: Algeria
Canada
United States
Japan

Collection