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Walter Mittelholzer

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Among other Swiss air pioneers, he is commemorated in a Swiss postage stamp issued in January 1977. His legacy of some 18,500 photographs is kept at ETH Library's image archive in
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later in 1930. In 1931, Mittelholzer was appointed technical director of the new airline called Swissair, formed from the merger of
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Im Flugzeug dem Nordpol entgegen: Junkers'sche Hilfsexpedition für Amundsen nach Spitzbergen, 1923
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pioneer. He was active as a pilot, photographer, travel writer, as well as of the first aviation
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on 21 February 1927. Earlier, he had been the first to do serious aerial reconnaissance of
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Tschadseeflug: Mit dem drei-motorigen Fokker der Swissair durch die Sahara zum Tschadsee
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Die Schweiz aus der Vogelschau: 274 Abbildungen aus der Sammlung von Walter Mittelholzer
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Walter Mittelholzer Revisited. From the Walter Mittelholzer Photography Archive
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On 5 November 1919 he co-founded an air-photo and passenger flight business,
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Image Archive, ETH Library, "Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937, photographer)"
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Abessinienflug: Mit dem dreimotorigen Fokker an den Hof des Negus Negesti
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By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
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Die Schweiz von damals, 1917-1937: 350 historische Flugaufnahmen
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Mittelmeerflug, mit 120 Fliegeraufnahmen und einer Einleitung
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In 1920 this firm merged with the financially stronger
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Mittelholzer memorial at Zürich Airport
Zürich Airport
Earliest aerial photography of Rapperswil, Switzerland, by Walter Mittelholzer in 1919

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