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Photos by Swiss aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

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Title

Photos by Swiss aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

Identifier

The ETH Bibliothek's collection comprises about 18'000 pictures by Walter Mittelholzer; they will all be available on a hard disk during the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 in Basel.

Also, some pictures are already available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_ETH-Bibliothek

Alternatively an API access to the Mittelholzer images in Image Archive online (http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch) can be granted upon request.

Type

Collection

Description

Photos - some of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923) or Persia (1925). See this Wikimedia Blog post for more information: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/22/eth-bibliothek-wikimedia/.

Rights

Public Domain

Language

German

Format

TIFF, JPG (various sizes)

Country

Switzerland

Contact

Michael Gasser
ETH Library, Archives
michael.gasser@library.ethz.ch

Suggested Tags

Photographs, Aerial photography, aviation, colonial history, Geography, Landscape, History, CH2016

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