Guyana, view overlooking crowd gathered around overturned car on Main Street in Georgetown
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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.
Leica. Plenachrome F. 9/15 10:15 a.m. View from room, Park Hotel - crowd at overturned car after accident. SE
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Platt Nitrate Negative, Box 219 of 250
- Creator
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. Guyana, view overlooking crowd gathered around overturned car on Main Street in Georgetown. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2909. (Accessed January 21, 2021.)
- APA citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, Guyana, view overlooking crowd gathered around overturned car on Main Street in Georgetown. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2909
- 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/2909>.