53. Photography from 20,000 ft. small specks on road are troops. The number of troops in this particular movement was calculated exactly from this set of photographs. (The weather was dull when picture was taken and troops did not see airplane, otherwise an effort would have been made to conceal them), 1918

Plate 53. Photography from 20,000 ft., from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Plate 53, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, 1918

Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.729

Inscribed recto, in negative, upper left, in white: “6633”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “Photography from 20,000 ft. / small specks on road are troops / the number of troops in this particular movement was calculated / exactly from this set of photographs. (The weather was dull when picturewas [sic] taken + troops did not see airplane / otherwise an effort would have been made to conceal them.”; printed recto, on album page, lower right, in black ink: “Photographic Section. / Air Service. American Expeditionary Forces.”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower right, in blue ink: “53”; unmarked verso