Roosevelt read Chapman's 1902 book, "Bird Studies With A Camera," and saw his display at the museum on Florida's Pelican Island, where massive and slow-flying brown pelicans made for easy targets ...

A unique birds-eye view of Capitola, circa 1940s. In the foreground is Soquel Creek along the Riverview neighborhood, showing numerous houses, many of which were built in the 1920s.

A post on the Simthsonian's National Air and Space Museum webpage refers to Aug. 6, 1945, as a "turning point in human ...

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 30, 2024, Section D, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Bird’s-Eye View of a Technicolor World.