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Identifier

NASM.XXXX.0752, Item NASM 00181714

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 photograph from a tandem line of nine Eddy Kites in September 1897. Oblique aerial photograph of Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., from a point over the south side of the US Capitol Grounds looking north; the east facade of the United States Capitol building is seen at left, with North Capitol Street extending toward the center horizon in the background.

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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