It’s hard to imagine today, but the entire town of Naperville could be captured in a single aerial photograph in the early 1920s. Given that its population was just 3,830 in 1920 (it would drop to 3,603 by 1930, according to U.S. Census numbers), it really was just a bump in the road completely surrounded by farmland just a mere century ago. This view looking slightly toward the northeast was taken by the photographers Kaufmann & Fabry, based in Chicago, according to information printed in the bottom left-hand corner. (Naperville Heritage Society)
The Way We Were: Aerial view of Naperville in the 1920s
