Name/Title
Millburn Aerial View, 1954Entry/Object ID
2022.080.002Description
Aerial View of Millburn, New Jersey taken by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. in 1954. The photograph shows the South Mountain Section of Millburn in the left foreground, Taylor Park in the center and the High School playing fields on the left side, further back.
The founder of Fairchild Aerial Survey Company, Sherman Mills Fairchild (1896-1971) was a pioneer in the field of aerial photography. He was the son of a wealthy congressman from New York, George Winthrop Fairchild, whose time-clock and adding machine business became the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). In 1916, the younger Fairchild established himself as a technological leader when he developed the first synchronized camera shutter and flash. During WWI , he became interested in aerial photography and, in March 1919, completed a specialized camera for this purpose with a large, between the lens shutter. Shortly afterward he established the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation with financing by his father. By 1924, he had formed Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., and over the next few decades had great success photographing cities in the Northeast and Canada.
This photograph is number 54-161. It was given by J.W. Fuller and was a Bell Lab photograph. Image ID # 242 in Owen Lampe's master list.Collection
Centennial CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2022.080Acquisition Method
FoundDimensions
Height
9-1/4 inWidth
9-1/4 inReproductions
Notes
Millburn 1857-1957, page 72 (cropped).
