Photos by the Swiss photographer, pilot and aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

Photos - many of them aerial images - Walter Mittelholzer took both in Switzerland and during his adventurous flights to places like Spitzbergen (1923), Persia (1924/25), across the entire African continent to Cape Town or across Mount Kilimanjaro (1930).

The Walter Mittelholzer collection of the ETH Library Image Archive comprises more than 18'000 photographs. A large selection of the Images from Mittelholzer's flights abroad are available on Wikimedia Commons. Alternatively an API access to the entire Mittelholzer collection available on E-Pics Image Archive Online can be granted upon request.

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Identifier ethz-walter-mittelholzer-epics@eth-bibliothek
Title for URL of the dataset Fotografien des Fotografen, Piloten und Luftfahrtpioniers Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)
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Issued date May 12, 2017
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Update interval Irregular
Temporal coverage January 1, 1894 - December 31, 1937
Publisher Information ETH-Bibliothek
Contact points ETH-Bibliothek, Koordinationsstelle ETH E-Pics
Languages Language independent
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Terms of use https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_open
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