Chile, aerial view of sodium nitrate mining and processing facilities
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- Created Date
- 1937-10-12
- Description
October 12, 1937 - Flight from Arica to Antofagasta, Chile, with detour over The nitrate desert. La Noria, Chile: View southward along the western border of the nitrate basin. The railroad, a town in the distance, and two nitrate processing plants. 7800 feet. 09:57.
Photographer's Note data comes from typed journals: 'Title List, Dr. and Mrs. Light's Central and South American Photographs, 1937. Part I Aerial Photographs made with the Fairchild F-8, 5 x 7 in. Roll Film Camera.'
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- Creator
Meader, Mary, 1916-2008
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- 1937 Mary (Light) Meader and Dr. Richard Light Photographs of Central and South America
Richard U. Light and Mary (Light) Meader 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 - Location
- South America
Latin America and Caribbean
Chile
Tarapacá (region, administrative)
Atacama, Desierto de (desert) - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Meader, Mary, 1916-2008. Chile, aerial view of sodium nitrate mining and processing facilities. 1937-10-12. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/160. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Meader, Mary, 1916-2008, (1937-10-12) Chile, aerial view of sodium nitrate mining and processing facilities. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/160
- MLA citation style
- Meader, Mary, 1916-2008. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/160>.