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Title
A beach, atoll of Makatea
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
A beach, atoll of Makatea
Comment : The atoll of Makatea was for a long time an economic driver for the French Polynesia region because of its large phosphate deposits. These were mined from 1917 until depletion of resources in 1966.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 8.5x6.3 cm
8.5x6.3 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15206_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88915
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15206_2.jpg
Subject
Landscape
Beaches
Seas
Time Period
1952
Place
French Polynesia
Makatea (French Polynesia)
Tuamotu Archipelago
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Source
SMEP/PF.PP.180-15206 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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