Photographic map of Victoria Dam and hydroelectric plant on West Branch Ontonagon River
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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: Victoria Power Site.
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.
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- 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 - Subjects
- Illustrations
Maps
Aerial photographs
Dams
Reservoirs
Hydraulic facilities
Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation - Location
- North and Central America
North America
United States
Michigan
Ontonagon (county)
Victoria Reservoir (reservoir)
Keweenaw Peninsula (cape); West Branch Ontonagon River (river) - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964. Photographic map of Victoria Dam and hydroelectric plant on West Branch Ontonagon River. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12868. (Accessed April 16, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964, Photographic map of Victoria Dam and hydroelectric plant on West Branch Ontonagon River. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/12868
- 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/12868>.