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Aerial photography in agriculture;Japan--Aerial photographs;Honshū (Japan)

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Aerial view of a small plain near Toyama, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-63
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of a small plain near Toyama, west coast of Honshu to show flooded rice paddies and the scattered clumps of trees that mark the homesites. Dispersed patterns of settlement such as this are not common."

Dates: June 6, 1947

Aerial view of a wide flood plain in Honshu, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-62
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of a wide flood plain, all in cultivation, not far from Toyama, west coast of Honshu. The fields near the channel are apparently on the natural levees and above reach of the irrigation water."

Dates: June 6, 1947

Aerial view of flooded rice paddies near Kanazawa, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-61
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of flooded rice paddies in a coastal plain near Kanazawa, Honshu. Adjacent uplands are in forest, as is usual."

Dates: June 6, 1947

Aerial view of hilly terrain near Takada, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-64
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of hilly terrain near Takada, west coast of Honshu to show rice paddies on bench terraces, two small reservoirs, and forest."

Dates: June 6, 1947

Aerial view of mountains north of Niigata, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-66
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of mountains north of Niigata, west coast of northern Honshu, to show clear cutting of forest blocks with logs peeled where they fall, perhaps 75% slopes. The seacoast and a small valley in rice paddies along the far horizon. Overcast skies. "

Dates: June 6, 1947

Aerial view of the flooded rice paddies in a small plain near Niigata, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-65
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of the flooded rice paddies in a small plain near Niigata, west coast of northern Honshu. A large number of people are working in the paddies. The green area seems to be in dry land crops."

Dates: June 6, 1947

Snow-capped mountains near Sakata, June 6, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-67
Scope and Contents

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Aerial view of mountains, all in forest but with tops of far and highest ones mantled with snow, near Sakata, west coast of northern Honshu."

Dates: June 6, 1947