I too was trying to find the date of this photo this week. To narrow your time span, the first aerial photograph (also from a balloon) was taken in 1858 in France. So this photo had to have been taken after that point.

He wasn’t a zombie. He was lich, maybe a wight. Also, he quit carpentry years before he died.

As someone who does speak native English, no clue. My best guess is that it is a typo. I think it was supposed to be $40m.