Literature Search on Kites and Kite Aerial Photography

Literature Search

I have begun a modest search of turn-of-the-century literature for Kite and KAP references. Here are my results so far. Note that Blue Hill is a meteorological station and a man named Rotch worked there.

Nature magazine, Volumes 36-71 (May 1887-April 1905). There were no KAP references at all. Only volume numbers are shown.

v36 Kite balloon
v54 Blue Hill
v55 Wise, Rotch
v56 Rotch
v57 Kite ascension, Rotch
v58 Propellor kite
v59 Kite flying record
v60 Blue Hill
v62 Telephony, meterology
v63 Weather bureau
v64 Meterology, upper stratosphere
v65 Rotch
v66 Upper atmosphere
v68 Bell's kites, scientific kite flying (from a tugboat),
kite competition (Cody)
v69 Rotch

I examined National Geographic's index to all issues. I believe Bell was president of the National Geographic Society. (There's no mention of KAP.)
Feb 1900, p55-62 Weather bureau
Jun 1903, p219-251 Bell (long article, many photos)
Jul 1903, p294 Tetrahedral kites
Jan 1907, p1-34 Bell
Jan 1908, p33-52 Bell's man-lifting kite
Aug 1927, p233-242 Aviation retrospective
Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 42-59 (Nov. 1892-Oct. 1901)

v51 Reproducing Franklin's experiments
v52 Blue Hill
v53 "Kite Flying 1897" (includes a paragraph on KAP!)
v57 Blue Hill

Arthur Batut's book refers to several articles in La Nature. This magazine apparently is not connected with the British Nature, as near as I can tell. The page numbers refer to Aerial Photography From a Kite, which contains an English translation of his book.

p13 1888 - Nature - Arthur Batut (La Nature?)
p105 2/26/1888 - La Nature - Mr. Esterlin
p127 7/16/1887 - La Nature - Mr. Colladon
p139 9/7/1889 - La Nature - Ferdinand Pottier
p139 9/21/1889 - La Nature - Ferdinand Pottier

For further KAP historical information, visit Andrea Casalboni's website. Christian Chalamet recommends these two links (both are in French): Kite History and KAP history.