Lower Manhattan from Balloon - 1906

 

 

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View of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan taken from a balloon. Photo by P.F. Collier & Son, copyright August 1906. Source: Library of Congress.

Note: there was no aerial photography by plane yet. The first complete flight by plane, from takeoff to landing, was performed by the Brazilian Santos Dumont, in October 1906, in Paris.

Manhattan (New York County) has become the most densely populated county in the United States. The port of New York is one of the largest in the world.

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