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The View from Above

by The Library of Congress

Aerial views offer a new perspective on the world. Take to the skies with a selection of photographs and prints from the Prints & Photographs Division.

25 photos · 985 views

Bird's-eye view of the Universal Exposition St. Louis, U.S.A., 1904 (LOC)

Clarendon area, Arlington, Va., ca. 1921-1924 (LOC)

Aerial view of a portion of Scottsdale, Arizona, an upper-income Phoenix suburb that in some places (including here) still borders the open desert (LOC)

An October 2017 aerial view of Portland, Maine's, harbor, with a focus on the [Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse] in South Portland (LOC)

Marshlands on the New Jersey Shore near Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey (LOC)

Washington, D.C. Aerial view of a street corner, in front of the Willard Hotel, at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue showing pedestrians and rather dense traffic in autos and street cars (LOC)

Aerial view of a suburban housing subdivision in Clermont County, Ohio, outside Cincinnati (LOC)

Aerial view of a tidy farm in Dane County, Wisconsin (LOC)

[Aerial view of marchers in the shadow of the Washington Monument at the March on Washington, 1963] (LOC)

The Sugar Bowl stadium, New Orleans, La. (LOC)

Aerial view of pineapple fields, Oahu, Hawaii (LOC)

Bird's eye view of the city of Columbia, South Carolina, 1872 (LOC)

Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Sts. (LOC)

[Aerial view of terraced fields and roadway with a military vehicle in a mountainous region of the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province in China] (LOC)

Boston - bird's eye view from the north (LOC)

Statue of Liberty (a view from the sky) (LOC)

[Aerial view of Capitol Hill showing the Thomas Jefferson Building and John Adams Building, Library of Congress; the Supreme Court, the U.S. Capitol, the Cannon House Office Building, the Longworth House Office Building, the Russell Senate Office Building

Life: Vanderbilt, Houses Choices (LOC)

[Aerial view of Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge] (LOC)

Aeria Rocinha vertical (LOC)

Aerial view of downtown Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and (as of 2020) third-largest in the United States. Protruding into Lake Michigan are the Navy Pier (top) and the shadows "just the shadows "of several lakefront skyscrapers (LOC)

Aerea Vidigal (LOC)

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airplane "boneyard" of nearly 4,400 aircraft, the world's largest such aircraft graveyard, on a 2,600-acre site at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Boneyards are either kept for storage with s

Aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds through the deep gorge at Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona. The river's whitewater rapids, roiling in spots, are a popular venue for kayakers and rafters (LOC)

Aerial view of two of the three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada-U.S. border (LOC)