I just spent way too much time immersed in this post-earthquake-and-fire aerial photo of SF. You will too.
Photographed by George R. Lawrence with a kite a few weeks after the disaster:
It is a 160-degree panorama from a kite taken 2000 feet (600 m) in the air above the San Francisco Bay that showed the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film. Each print sold for $125 and Lawrence made at least $15,000 in sales from this one photograph. The camera used in this photograph weighed 49 pounds (22 kg) and used a celluloid-film plate.
