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This series consists of prints generated from aerial photographic films of Australia. 

Function and purpose

Photographic prints are generated from the aerial survey film created by the Division of National Mapping or its predecessors. The format of the photographic prints are mostly black and white up to ninety percent the remaining are colour. The scale varies from approximately 1:10 000 to 1: 150 000. Whilst they are generally uniform in size they may include mosaic photographs which involves joining together several aerial photos to form a single non-rectified image that may then be re-photographed and enlarged.

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Physical characteristics

The prints are 230 x 230mm format size. 

System of arrangement and control

The prints are arranged by 1: 250000 map sheet reference numbers. Each photograph has a photo title strip with the following information: 250K map number and area; film number; aircraft run number; frame number; photo number; time and date of photo; altitude of aircraft or scale. A small proportion of the prints have control points marked on them.

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