A lost art...
Bird's eye view of Washington, DC, late1800s
Once upon a time, long before Google, we had to imagine what our towns and cities looked like from the sky, Kelsey Campbell-Dolleghan reports on gizmodo.com.
In fact, there were famous artists who specialized in creating these panoramic views of Earth, though today, it's a lost art, Campbell-Dolleghan writes.
They were called panoramic or aero views, and the Library of Congress actually has a collection devoted to almost 2,000 of these Google Earth-style maps, each drawn by hand without help from a plane or satellite.
Even though the bird's eye view had existed for centuries, panoramic maps were all the rage with Americans of the late 19th century.
For more, including wonderful examples of familiar places across the country as they appeared long ago: gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-panoramic-maps-are-from-a-time-before-plan-1684595323?rev=1423516444767&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
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