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The American Landscape Project is a free, online, archive of digital and digitized photos, postcards and photographic slides chronicling the built environment of the United States, Canada and beyond from the mid-20th to early 21st century.  Most of the photos were taken by geographers and they include a stunning variety of landscapes, topics, and regions. Mundane, ordinary, vernacular describe many of the topics. Some of the collection chronicles the unique, different, exotic, and weird. 

Some of the photography is quite good. Some photos suffer from the limitations of the photographic technology of the past, especially the old slide film. Nonetheless, this is a valuable visual archive that students of landscape, geography, urban planning, sociology, and anthropology should find educational and fun.  The site is under construction and will remain under construction for the foreseeable future as the collection is placed online.

This website is dedicated in part to keeping alive the considerable legacy of

John Brinckerhoff Jackson 

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