Aerial Photos 1906 Great American Cities

May 8, 2018 5:11 PM

Link together a bunch of kites and hoist a camera up several hundred feet, and voila! There are several links in the article to different deposits of aerial photos by the enterprising George R. Lawrence.
posted by MovableBookLady (4 comments total)

i was taught kap by a non profit group mapping the BP oil spill

they have instructional materials online, including a website to help you match photos to locations

they have kits for sale
posted by eustatic at 5:49 PM on May 8, 2018 [1 favorite]

Those photos are so neat - I hadn't thought of how they accomplished that sort of thing. Thanks for posting!
posted by needlegrrl at 8:06 AM on May 9, 2018

Great stuff! So is that Bryant Park bridging the first and second segments here? Manhattan in 1906 was a different world!
posted by languagehat at 8:52 AM on May 9, 2018

this is so dope.
posted by FiftyShadesOfBae at 3:50 PM on May 9, 2018