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I didn't realize USA had such good surveillance satellites up in the 1900s
Actually a lot of Google "satellite" imagery is from planes, as I assume this is.
Or a balloon, which they used in ww1 for observation
Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!
They called them 'birds' back then