san diego from balloon – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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San diego from balloon comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Taken from a balloon drifting above San Diego, this view offers a bird's-eye sweep of the city that few people of its era could have seen for themselves. Aerial photography of this kind grew out of late nineteenth-century experiments in carrying cameras aloft, which gave cities some of their first overhead records. Exposures had to be timed against wind and the balloon's drift, so each image was partly a matter of luck. Pictures like this are useful for studying street layouts, building footprints and open land, much of which changed quickly as the city grew.
| Original scan | 3,230 × 600 px · prints to 11 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 6a18158u san diego from balloon |
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