Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography… Title: Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Date: 1860 Photographer: James Wallace Black (1825-1896) Process: albumen silver print from glass negative James Wallace Black’s aerial images of Boston are the oldest in the field in the U.S. Black also documented the devastating fire of 1872. This photograph received its title from Poet and Harvard Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes. Source and information: The Metropolitan Museum of Art