Aerial Views

1875 Bird's Eye view drawing of Ames from Andreas Atlas looking northwest

1926 west portion of campus and campus town area looking northeast

1930s Carr's Pool looking northeast

1935 Campus view looking northeast

1937 Lincoln Way and Grand Avenue intersection looking northeast

1938 Campus View looking west

1938 aerial view of Campustown and Iowa State College looking northwest

1938 view of Grand Avenue depot area looking north-northeast

1938 aerial photo looking north from Ninth Street between Roosevelt Avenue, right, and Northwestern Avenue, Left. Roosevelt School, seen in the foreground, opened in 1924.

1940 view of Ontario Road looking north

1939 aerial photo of Ames area east of Ioway Creek

Mid-1940s view of Roosevelt School and Thirteenth Street area looking north

1948 aerial view of western end of Main Street looking west

1948 Aerial photo of ISC Campus and Ames Campustown looking north

1950s view of campus area looking north

Ames High School area showing schools on both sides of Clark Avenue looking west
c.1950

The 1951 aerial photograph facing north shows the residential development in Ames located north of Thirteenth Street and west of Grand Avenue. Note the Seventh Day Adventist Church, built in 1941, on the northwest corner of 13th and Grand. The former Knight's Pony Farm buildings can be seen in the upper right center.(Farwell T. Brown Photographic Archive)

1953 aerial photo of Ames area east of Ioway Creek

1950s aerial view of downtown Ames

1958 aerial photo of Ames area east of Ioway Creek

1958 Aerial view of ISC campus and Lincoln Way looking north

1959 or 1960 view of Lincoln Way and downtown Ames

Aerial view of University Village when new, ca. 1960s

1960 DOT and Lincoln Way looking southeast

1962 Aerial view of Beach to Ash Avenue south of Lincoln Way facing north

1965 aerial photo of Ames area east of Ioway Creek

1972 aerial photo of Ames area east of Ioway Creek

1975 aerial view of campus and campus town looking north

1976 aerial photo of Ames area

1976 postcard view of downtown Ames looking north with Lincoln Way visible at the bottom

1976 view of Ames downtown looking southeast

Postcard aerial of downtown Ames looking northwest, ca. 1980s