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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. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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[–] Eol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

"yup the roads are fucked!"

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

That looks like a standard European city today. What happened?

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

That part of Boston still looks like that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

About 164 years happened.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

Crawl happened.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it evokes the same feeling that La Barceloneta does, the old beachside neighborhood in Barcelona.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

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

[–] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are probably 100k people in the buildings pictured when it was taken and to think every single one of them is dead (hopefully).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Maybe some of them are undead.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

That looks like Old North Church on the left for anyone who wants to google maps it to compare to modern day.

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Oh dang 😵🤩 that’s so awesome