BirdsEye View of San Francisco Cal from a Balloon (1902)

Taken while ascending some 2000 yards into the clouds and represents a most diversified view of the city of San Francisco the Golden Gate Pacific Ocean and surrounding country for miles The huge balloon from which this picture was taken is 75 feet in diameter 250 feet in circumference and about 105 feet high and it requires some 150000 feet of gas to raise it from the ground