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The three images are cropped portions of the same image.
Try answer the factual questions related this image below.

1. In which year was this image taken?
2. What was the name of the photographer?
3. What city is portrayed in the image?
4. Where was the photographer when he snapped this shot?
5. Is the church in the image Trinity Church? If not please show me where on the full image?
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1. 1860
2. James Wallace Black
3. Boston.
4. From the hot-air balloon the "Queen of the Air"
5. The church in the middle segment is Old South (Church), the one in the fragment on the right is Trinity Church.

See Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It
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TX... :thumbup:
I was not sure about the church as it looks quite different in this shot...
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The church in the aerial photograph was situated in Summer Street; it was destroyed in the great Boston fire of 1872. The other picture shows the new church that was erected in Copley Square and consecrated in 1877.
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Wow...you're a real historian.
TX for the facts. Very interesting.
:chocciebar: for that!
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