The notation on this amazing aerial photograph of Los Angeles is as follows: This photograph of the fledgling town of Los Angeles was taken from a hot-air balloon on June 26, 1887. Floating 9,000 feet above the city in a hot-air balloon, photographer Edwin H. Husher tilted his camera over the basket’s edge to capture images of Los Angeles. The voyage was part of a publicity stunt orchestrated by William Randolph Hearst designed to sell newspaper advertising and to top a similar hot-air balloon stunt by Hearst’s archrival Joseph Pulitzer.