Page 133 - Early Naturalists of the Black Range

Lee was a pioneer in many ways. In 1922 he published The Face of the Earth as Seen From The Air - A Study in the Application of Airplane Photography to Geography (American Geographical Society Special Publication No. 4, 1922). He was no longer working in New Mexico at the time, but this was a landmark in the application of a new technology to geology and geography. That is not to say that his work was groundbreaking. Work of this type often advances on many fronts, by many people. We view images like that on the preceding page without a second thought. Not so in the first decades of the 1900’s.
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Willis T. Lee (by Alden 1926)