"Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It," by James Wallace Black, captured on October 13, 1860 from a balloon: the first aerial photograph taken in America.
"Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It," by James Wallace Black, captured on October 13, 1860 from a balloon: the first aerial photograph taken in America.
"yup the roads are fucked!"
14 0 ReplyMan, imagine being the first person in the modern US to see the world from the air. That must have been a wild fucking feeling.
12 0 ReplyThat looks like a standard European city today. What happened?
9 0 ReplyThat part of Boston still looks like that.
12 0 ReplyAbout 164 years happened.
7 0 ReplyCrawl happened.
3 0 ReplyYeah, it evokes the same feeling that La Barceloneta does, the old beachside neighborhood in Barcelona.
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Somewhere down there is a guy in a horse drawn carriage calling some other guy a fucking putz for not moving his carriage out of the way fast enough
9 0 ReplyThere are probably 100k people in the buildings pictured when it was taken and to think every single one of them is dead (hopefully).
7 0 ReplyMaybe some of them are undead.
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That looks like Old North Church on the left for anyone who wants to google maps it to compare to modern day.
7 0 ReplyOh dang 😵🤩 that’s so awesome
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