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

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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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Name Format Description Link
ETH e-pics Image Archive & API Unknown Open resource
E-Pics Image Archive Online, Collection Walter Mittelholzer Unknown Open resource
Wikimedia Commons TIFF Open resource

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