Chile, steam shovel loading Chilean caliche onto train in Oficina María Elena
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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.
2/16 Shovel loading caliche. 1:45 p.m. SW
This surface nitrate mine was the subject of a field study in Platt's Latin America : countrysides and united regions, p. 349-353.
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Platt Nitrate Negatives, Box 136
- 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. Chile, steam shovel loading Chilean caliche onto train in Oficina María Elena. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2344. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, Chile, steam shovel loading Chilean caliche onto train in Oficina María Elena. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2344
- 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/2344>.