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On October 13, 1860, two years after the French photographer Nadar conducted his earliest experiments in balloon flight, Black made the first successful aerial photographs in the United States in collaboration with the balloon navigator Samuel Archer King on King's hot-air balloon, the Queen of the Air.
1832 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president. 1832 – Jackson vetoes the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States, bringing to a head the Bank War and ultimately leading to the Panic of 1837. December 28, 1832 – Calhoun resigns as vice president.
13 October – Ascending in Samuel Archer King ' s balloon The Queen of the Air, James Wallace Black takes eight photographs of Boston from an altitude of 1,200 ft (370 m). The single clear print is the first successful aerial photograph in the United States and the first clear aerial photograph of a city ever taken anywhere. [25] 1861
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...
They dug up and archived a trove of U-2 spy photos from the '50s and '60s, eventually finding ancient canals and "desert kite" stone structures built in northern Iraq by the Assyrians up to 8,000 ...
July 30 – Richard Rush, 8th United States Attorney General and 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1780) August 2 – Horace Mann, educator and abolitionist (born 1796) August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne, politician (born 1777) September 2 – Delia Bacon, playwright and writer on the Shakespeare authorship question (born 1811)
General view of the Capitol and the crowd attending the second Presidential Inauguration of Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States on January 20, 1949 in Washington D.C., United States.