I love this image because virtually all other aerials concentrated on the north side of the field and not the south and middle. I never realized that the Blue Lagoon on the south side had been dug so early in the history of the airport. Runway 9R-27L is at the bottom, 12/30 is in the middle, along with 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.

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."