(This is a closeup version of the preceding photo) I love this image because virtually all other aerials concentrated on the north side of the field looking west, south or east and didn't include what is now the center and south side of what became Miami International Airport. 12/30 is the diagonal runway left to right. 17/35. It's amazing to see that the airport on the north side did not extend west of 17/35 at the time. 17/35 was closed in the late 60's as I recall and the present day E-Satellite, sits just to the east of where it was. Please click on "original" below to see the largest version of this image.

From the archives description: "Personal Author: Fairchild, Sherman M., 1896-1971. Sherman M. Fairchild collection.) General Note: The photographer Sherman Fairchild was born in 1896 in Oneonta, New York. He was contracted by the government to develop a camera for aerial photography; such cameras already existed but produced highly distorted photographs due to slow shutter speeds which could not keep up with the movement of the flying plane. Fairchild developed a camera where the shutter was placed inside the lens which allowed the camera to be fast enough to produce photographs with minimal distortion. After World War I the Army made his cameras their standard aerial cameras."