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1Aerial photography
Balloon flights
2Balloon flights
3Nadar: Balloon flights
4Cecil Victor Shadbolt: Ballooning and aerial photography in Great Britain and France
5Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897)
6George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons
7Eduard Spelterini: Aerial views
Airplane flights
8Alfred G. Buckham: Aerial photography
9Erich F. Schmidt: Flights Over Ancient Cities of Iran (taken 1935-1937, published 1940)
10Rudolf Koppitz: Aerial photography
11Bradford Washburn: Aerial photography
12William A. Garnett: Aerial photography
13William A. Garnett: Aerial views of Californian suburbia
14David Maisel: Oblivion
Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
15First World War (1914-1918): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
16Second World War (1939-1945): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
Satellite
17Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project

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