/Airborne Camera/ by Beaumont Newhall, Hastings House 1969 was the best general book on the subject I could find when I was looking for similar questions (but for the 19th century) a decade or so ago. Its discussion of balloon photos (about 40 pp long) ends before 1900. Nat Case INCase, LLC On 7/30/2019 07:26 PM, Kathy Stroud wrote: > > All, > > Does anyone know of a work that discusses early aerial photography > from balloons? A patron was asking me about birds-eye view aerial > photography from balloons in relation to a 1910? Postcard they have. > > Were itinerant balloonists taking aerial photographs of towns and then > selling them much the way pilots did in the 1920s? > > Kathy Stroud > > /David and Nancy Petrone/Map/GIS Librarian Knight Library > > 1299 University of Oregon > > Eugene, OR 97403-1299 > > 541-346-3051 > > “A map is not just a picture—it’s also the data behind the map, the > methodology used to collect and parse that data, the people doing that > work, the choices made in terms of visualization and the software used > to make them.” >