Research


Scope and Content Note

This series consists of indexes to aerial photographs created for the Tri-State Transportation Committee, 1961-1965; Tri-State Transportation Commission, 1965-1971; and Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, 1971-1980, for use in regional highway planning. Areas covered by the Committee and the later Commissions were the southern portion of New York, western Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. New York counties covered were Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, and Richmond.

The indexes consist of composite aerial photographs and annotated printed maps. Only photographs created by the Committee in 1961-1962 and 1970 are held by the State Archives (Series B2023). The location of later photographs indexed by this series is unknown.