Boston as the Eagle and Wild Goose See It
Artist
Black & Batchelder
(American, James Wallace Black (1825 - 1896) Perez M. Batchelder (1818 - 1891))
Date1860
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet (oval): 9 9/16 × 7 9/16 inches (24.29 × 19.21 cm)
Mount (oval): 13 × 11 inches (33.02 × 27.94 cm)
Mount (oval): 13 × 11 inches (33.02 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.324
SignedOn mount recto, lower left, in black type: "[partially cut off] ACK & BATCHELDER, PHOTO.";
On mount recto, bottom center, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860, by Black & Batchelder, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Mass.".
InscribedOn mount recto, lower right, in black type: "KING & ALLEN AERONAU [partially cut off]";
On mount recto, bottom center, in black type: "[partially cut off] VIEW OF [partially cut off]".
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionAerial image of a city; streets wind through densely packed buildings with a body of water at the top of the image.Published ReferencesThis image was first published in "Aerial Photography," Photo-Miniature 5:52 (July 1903): 144. William Robinson, A Certain Slant of Light (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980): 53-59; Samuel A. King, "The Late Balloon Photographing Experiment," American Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences 3:12 (November 15, 1860): 188-90; "Photographing From a Balloon," Boston Herald (October 13, 1860): 4; "In Memoriam," Wilson's Photographic Magazine 33:471 (March 1896): 120-21; "Photography in Boston," American Journal of Photography 6:14 (January 15, 1864): 222; Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Doings of the Sunbeam," Atlantic Monthly 12 (July 1863): 12; Sally Pierce, Whipple & Black, 28-30.
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