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Identifier

NASM.XXXX.0752, Item NASM 00181713

Date

September 1897

Extent

1 Photographic print

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

Compliments of William A. Eddy to Mr. Edward Herbert Young, who helped him to take this mid air kite photograph in Sept. 1897. Taken from a camera sustained in mid air by nine Eddy Kites in tandem. (Signed) William A. Eddy. Oblique aerial photograph of Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., from a point over the south side of the US Capitol Grounds looking roughly northwest over the south end of the United States Capitol building (east facade at right).

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Citation

Kite Aerial Photography [William Eddy], Acc. XXXX-0752, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Aerial photography

Kites

Type

Archival materials

Photographs

Photographic prints