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
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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.

 

Were itinerant balloonists taking aerial photographs of towns and then selling them much the way pilots did in the 1920s?

 

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