Brazil, fishermen cover in Caju neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro

• Main Author: Platt, Robert S. (Robert Swanton), 1891-1964
• Other Authors: Gift of the University of Chicago, 1982.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1930
• Subjects: Fishing; Harbors; Waterfronts; Bays (Bodies of water); Latin America; Coal Island; Sudeste
• Online Access: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ags_south/id/2489

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 poo...