Barbados, view of sugarcane and cotton fields
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1923-01-16
- Description
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.
S.S. Guiana. Martinique to Barbados. January 1923. Cotton, cane, hills. 10:15. B. 11 1/50. Northeast.
Grayscale
Platt Nitrate Negatives, Box 47
- Creator
Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964
- Partner
- 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 - Location
- North and Central America
Latin America and Caribbean
Barbados
Barbados (island); West Indies (archipelago); Caribbean Sea (sea) - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. Barbados, view of sugarcane and cotton fields. 1923-01-16. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/4978. (Accessed April 16, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, (1923-01-16) Barbados, view of sugarcane and cotton fields. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/4978
- 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/4978>.