Flying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago"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.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1226arrow-down11
arrow-up1225arrow-down1image"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.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThat looks like a standard European city today. What happened?
minus-squareFireTower@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoThat part of Boston still looks like that.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoAbout 164 years happened.
minus-squareniktemadur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYeah, it evokes the same feeling that La Barceloneta does, the old beachside neighborhood in Barcelona.
That looks like a standard European city today. What happened?
That part of Boston still looks like that.![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4e443286-f4fc-42f3-9e92-82d09c30cd3e.jpeg)
About 164 years happened.
Crawl happened.
Yeah, it evokes the same feeling that La Barceloneta does, the old beachside neighborhood in Barcelona.