Colombia, view of bustling Calle Junín in Medellín
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Due to a malfunction inside Platt's camera, the majority of his first 8,000 images, dating from 1919 to 1933, have blurred areas where the unexposed film was not laying flat inside the camera. His 35mm photography after 1933 does not show this defect, but the condition of the film is rather poor, having been housed between loose sheets of paper in cardboard boxes for over 50 years. The majority of images he took from 1933-1963 are severely scratched. Therefore, only a small portion of Platt's photography has been chosen for online presentation.
1/31 Main street fr.[from] near hotel. S
Calle Junín is a street also currently known as Carrera 49. Sign on back of horse cart reads: Freskola
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Platt Nitrate Negative, Box 212 of 250
- Creator
Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Robert S. Platt Collection I - Nitrate Negatives
Robert S. Platt Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - South America
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images - Type
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- Nitrate negatives
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- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. Colombia, view of bustling Calle Junín in Medellín. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2874. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
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- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, Colombia, view of bustling Calle Junín in Medellín. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2874
- MLA citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2874>.