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8 photos and 4 illustrations tagged kite, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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1914

2013

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British Library digitised image from page 168 of "The Kilima-njaro Expedition. A record of scientific exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa ... With ... maps and ... illustrations by the author" from British Library uploaded March 2017
British kite balloon (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded August 2016
British Library digitised image from page 341 of "The Countries of the World: being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe [With plates.]" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 400 of "Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh : its history, its people, and its places" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 355 of "The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade ... By W. T. Wawn, ... with numerous illustrations by the same [Edited by W. D. Hay.]" from British Library uploaded November 2013
Lieutenant Kirk Booth of the U.S. Signal Corps being lifted skyward by the giant Perkins man-carrying kite at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts from U.S. National Archives uploaded March 2011
Colonel Granville Ryrie and a box kite, 1914 from Australian War Memorial collection uploaded May 2009
Lawrence Hargrave and James Swaine with the kites and other gear used in the kite-lift experiment at Stanwell Park beach, 12 November 1894 / photographed by C. Bayliss from State Library of New South Wales uploaded April 2009
Stephen Stokes' Master Plan from The National Archives UK uploaded December 2008
Camp Custer, Michigan, photographed from kites, camera elevated 500 feet (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2008
Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008
Boys flying a kite in front of community center, FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded January 2008

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Camp Custer, Michigan, photographed from kites, camera elevated 500 feet (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

1 older comment, and then…
Thomas Pietrogallo said:
As a young boy, I was saddened at the destruction of most of Fort Custer in order to make way for an industrial park. I remember the barracks were opened for people to salvage wood or whatever they could from the simple buildings.
Mark said:
Kaufmann & Fabry, Chicago photographers, would later become the official photographers of the Chicago's World's Fair "A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 1933-1934" There they would popularize the use of large photographic prints for the exhibition halls. blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/03/giant-pictures-from-pi...
parkermulligan said:
I wonder what the kite mechanism was ... a second string running up which could be pulled to release the shutter?
tgran said:
You can add this to the kite aerial photography group (KAP): flickr.com/groups/kiteaerialphotography/
David Wheeler said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Kite Aerial Photography (KAP), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Stephen Stokes' Master Plan

from The National Archives UK

parsimonious wren said:
I take it this idea was not accepted.
BigBean said:
Oh no, this was the plan they went with. It's still used by the Canadian weather forecasting system to this day.

Boys flying a kite in front of the community center, FSA camp, Robstown, Tex. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Herb Utsmelz said:
Loving these old slides. Very evocative.