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| An oblique view of Columbus Circle taken on Jan. 7, 1924 by the Fairchild Aerial Camera Company. Photographer: Underwood Archives/Getty Images |
In 1924, long before Google Maps, Sherman Mills Fairchild, an inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes, captured a groundbreaking view of New York City in its Jazz Age glory. The completed image was an 8-by-12-foot photo-mosaic composed of 140 sections tiled together from more than 2,000 individual exposures.
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| Source: Library of Congress |
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