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"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.

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"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.

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Man, imagine being the first person in the modern US to see the world from the air. That must have been a wild fucking feeling.

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