/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:
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> All,
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> 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.
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> Were itinerant balloonists taking aerial photographs of towns and then 
> selling them much the way pilots did in the 1920s?
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> Kathy Stroud
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