Collection Details
Archives and Special Collections (ASC) houses over 55,000 aerial photographs of Montana and the wider Rocky Mountain West region. Our collection has both oblique and vertical images with dates ranging from 1929 through the 1970s. Hundreds of oblique images, including from Missoula-based photographers R.H. McKay and Stan Healy, are available online via the Montana History Portal.
The majority of the aerial photographs in our collection are vertical images taken by the U.S. Forest Service in the 1930s and 1940s. ASC created a Historic Aerial Photographs online index map to these images. In addition, ASC has scanned over 4,000 of these images; links are included in the online index map and the scans can also be accessed via the United States Forest Service Aerial Photographs collection in ScholarWorks. Contact us if you would like access to images that are not yet scanned.
