For a century, four generations of Mark Stovall's family have worked the land of his Madison County farm. So a recent Internet advertisement promoting old aerial photos of rural homesteads and farms around the nation grabbed his attention.

This circa 1988 photo shows the Stovall family’s farm in Ila. Mark Stovall, who runs Stovall Dairy on the land, bought the photo from Vintage Aerial, which has digitized 25 million aerial images of rural homesteads and farms taken since the 1960s.

Stovall, who runs a dairy farm on 250 acres in Ila, responded to a Craigslist ad for historic aerial photographs. The advertisement promoted Vintage Aerial, an Ohio-based company that has bought and digitized more than 25 million film images taken of rural American home sites since the early 1960s and makes them available through an online archival service, www.vintageaerial.com.

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