Great old golf course aerials (Philly/Delaware/NJ area)

[Dan Herrmann]

Thanks to a tip from Ron Prichard yesterday, I decided to check out the Hagley Museum digital archive collection.  

I did a search for "golf".  Skip the first couple of result pages, and you'll find a fair number of golf course aerials from the 20's.  I know that Merion, St Davids, Cobb's Creek, The Mink, Rolling Green, Gulph Mills, and a large number of other courses are easily found.

It's so nice to see such storied courses without trees choking the course!

Here's the main URL:  http://digital.hagley.org/index.php  (I'd use this one)

And here's one with golf results:
http://digital.hagley.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=thumbnail&CISOGRID=thumbnail%2CA%2C1%3Btitle%2CA%2C1%3Bdate%2CA%2C0%3Bsubjec%2CA%2C0%3Bsource%2CA%2C0%3B20%3Bdate%2Ctitle%2Csource%2Cnone&CISOTHUMB=20+%285x4%29%3Btitle%2Ccoveraa%2Cdate%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTITLE=20%3Btitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOHIERA=20%3Bsubjec%2Ctitle%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOSUPPRESS=1&CISOBOX1=golf&CISOROOT=%2Fp268001coll4%2C%2Fp268001coll7%2C%2Fp268001uw%2C%2Fp268001coll5%2C%2Fp268001coll8%2C%2Fp268001coll9%2C%2Fp268001coll10%2C%2Fp268001coll12%2C%2Fp268001coll13%2C%2Fp268001coll14%2C%2Fp268001coll15%2C%2Fp268001coll18%2C%2Fp268001coll19%2C%2Fp268001coll20%2C%2Fp268001coll21%2C%2Fp268001coll22%2C%2Fp268001coll23%2C%2Fp268001coll24%2C%2Fp268001coll25%2C%2Fp268001coll26%2C%2Fp268001coll27%2C%2Fp268001coll28%2C%2Fp268001coll29%2C%2Fp268001coll31%2C%2Fp268001coll32%2C%2Fp268001coll33%2C%2Fp268001coll36%2C%2Fp15017coll1%2C%2Fp15017coll12%2C%2Fp15017coll4%2C%2Fp15017coll7%2C%2Fp15017coll9&CISOSTART=1,1

[Dan Herrmann]

Here's an example:  Gulph Mills

[Dan Herrmann]

Here's Pine Valley from 1931.  Look at the width!