The Face of the Earth as Seen from the Air / A Study in the Application of Airplane Photography to Geography

THE EARTH SEEN FROM THE AIR

Fig. 1—The National Capitol, Washington, D. C. A view obliquely downward from a position over the National Botanical Garden, showing the western front of the Capitol at the approach to it from Pennsylvania Avenue. In the background, at the right, can be seen a part of the Library of Congress and, at the left, a part of the Senate Office Building. The radiating avenues of approach are of interest as well as the character of the district surrounding the Capitol, as indicated by the apartment houses and tree-lined streets.

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 4 W. L. G. Joerg, Editor
A Study in the Application of Airplane Photography to Geography BY WILLIS T. LEE U. S. Geological Survey
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY BROADWAY AT 156TH STREET NEW YORK 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922 BY THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK CONDÉ NAST PRESS GREENWICH, CONN.


(o) indicates an oblique , (v) a vertical airplane photograph
All of the airplane photographs in this book, both oblique and vertical, were taken by the United States Army Air Service, except Figs. 78 and 79, which were taken by the United States Navy Air Service, and Figs. 10, 65, 69, 75, 77, and 82, which were taken by the author. To these two services the author is indebted for the permission to reproduce their photographs, and this acknowledgment is made with the same force as if made individually under each illustration.