1906 Aerial photos, San Francisco in Ruins

ziggy53

A 49 pound camera, hoisted 2,000 feet into the air using kites recorded the destuction of the SF earthquake. The short story of George R. Lawrence.


http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/landscape.html

troglodite

holy cow! looks like pic's from Hiroshima.

Whatever happened to ingenuity like that? Must have been cutting edge photo work at the time.

colourbox

That kind of ingenuity still exists. In the same city, even.

wxwax

ziggy53 wrote:

A 49 pound camera, hoisted 2,000 feet into the air using kites recorded the destuction of the SF earthquake. The short story of George R. Lawrence.


http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/landscape.html

What a great find!

Shocking photos. It's sobering to realize the same thing could happen again.

gus

troglodite wrote:

Whatever happened to ingenuity like that? Must have been cutting edge photo work at the time.

Dont worry...its right here.

DoctorIt

Excellent reading and photos. Nice one, Ziggy

Angelo

excellent find Ziggy!!! thanks for sharing.

ziggy53

Thanks all, for your comments.

Did you all happen to see the hi-res JPG link at the bottom of the article? (Carefull there, 20 Meg file.)

http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/Images/san_francisco_in_ruins.jpg

55 MPix, 11,709 x 4,716 pixels, 39 x 15.7 inches at 300 dpi, almost 160 Mbytes in Ram. I think this is the largest image I have stumbled onto on the Internet.

ziggy53

DoctorIt

ziggy53 wrote:

Thanks all, for your comments.

Did you all happen to see the hi-res JPG link at the bottom of the article? (Carefull there, 20 Meg file.)

http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/Images/san_francisco_in_ruins.jpg

55 MPix, 11,709 x 4,716 pixels, 39 x 15.7 inches at 300 dpi, almost 160 Mbytes in Ram. I think this is the largest image I have stumbled onto on the Internet.

ziggy53

I didn't dare click on it. Just the thought of it was impressive enough!

wxwax

All public domain by the way, so no copyright concerns.

Awais Yaqub

Sad incident
Thanks for sharing intresting link