Re: Rochester night time photos

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Anyone willing to venture a guess as to what those enormously tall 
whiskery looking things might be?

>Since we've had several shots of Rochester in the gallery lately, I 
>thought I'd share this link:
>
>"George W. Goddard pioneered the development of nighttime 
>reconnaissance photography. One night in 1925, he stunned Rochester, 
>N.Y., by igniting an 80-pound flash powder bomb to light up the 
>whole city. The result was the first aerial night photograph. 
>Pictured here is one of his first attempts at recording an aerial 
>view of Rochester at night.
>Courtesy of Defense Visual Information Center."
>
>http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/lae/images/LE281L18.jpg
>
>Greg Fraser

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Alan P. Hayes
Meaning and Form: Writing, Editing and Document Design
Pittsfield, Massachusetts


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