United States; Photographic map of copper mining operations and villages around South Range
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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.
Map: Copper Range Docks, Houghton, Atlantic, Old Atlantic Mill, Michigan Smelter, Portage Lake.
Originally appeared in a journal article written by Robert Platt for Economic Geography. Platt and his students used aerial photographs made by Abrams Aerial Survey to construct photographic maps, complete with scale, to accompany the publication of field work they did in the Upper Peninsula.
Platt, Robert S. (1932, October). South Range, Keweenaw Copper Country : A mining pattern of land occupancy. Economic Geography, 8(4), 386-399.
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- 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 - North and Central America
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Subjects
- Illustrations
Maps
Aerial photographs
Copper mining
Villages
Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation - Location
- North and Central America
North America
United States
Michigan
Houghton (county)
Atlantic Mine; Painesdale; South Range; Baltic; Trimountain
Keweenaw Peninsula (cape) - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. United States; Photographic map of copper mining operations and villages around South Range. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12959. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, United States; Photographic map of copper mining operations and villages around South Range. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12959
- 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/agsnorth/id/12959>.