DTE Aerial Photo Collection

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20150214163925/http://claslinux.clas.wayne.edu:80/photos/ap_index.htm

For techincal support please email Trevor Richards at an8828@wayne.edu

Through a generous donation from DTE, Wayne State is able to provide researchers with access to digitized copies of aerial photos of Detroit and area for the period 1949 to 1997. The collection consists of a series of low resoloution (72 dpi) and high resolution (600 dpi) pdf files. Use the links below to open a base map of a county for a given year and then use the links on the base map to open a photograph.

Please note:

The 600 dpi files are, on average, 15 MB in size and, on a high speed connection, take up to a minute to load. On a dial-up connection they will take significantly longer.
Macintosh users - click here for instructions

COUNTY	72 DPI	600 DPI
Livingston / Ingham	1967
Macomb	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1997	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1997
Monroe	1949 1956 1961 1981	1949 1956 1961 1981
Oakland	1949 1952 1956 1967 1997	1949 1952 1956 1967 1997
St. Clair	1949 1956 1961 1985	1949 1956 1961 1985
Washtenaw / Lenawee	1949 1956 1961	1949 1956 1961
Wayne (including City of Detroit)	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1981 1997	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1981 1997
City of Detroit	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1981 1997	1949 1952 1956 1961 1967 1981 1997

Jan	FEB	May
	14
2014	2015	2016