More interesting to Virtual Globetrotters is the fact that Old South Meeting House is visible in the world's oldest existing aerial photograph.
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anchored in Boston Common. He exposed 8 plates during his ascent but considered only one of them successful: a view to the east toward Boston Harbor
including Old South Meeting House on Washington Street with Milk Street curving away toward the docks. Black named his photograph 'Boston as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It'.
Although Frenchman Gaspard Felix Tournachon (aka Nadar) had taken the world's first aerial photographs in 1858, none of them survive making Black's 1860 view of Boston and the Old South Meeting House the World's earliest existing aerial Photograph.
The Live Local view above approximates Black's photograph.