Namuncai sawmill

Title

Namuncai sawmill

Creator

Rector, John Lawrence, 1943-

Date

1967

Type

Image; StillImage

Description

This sawmill uses a circular blade and is driven by a 19th century steam engine. In the 1960s this was the typical system used in much of rural Chile. Enrique Luengo ran this mill in 1967 and produced largely Tepa lumber, which he had difficulty selling.

Scanned image from slides using the Epson Expression 10000 XL as a tif image (1200 dpi, pixel dimensions- width: 1015, height: 1535) and converted into jpg for access purposes

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

In Copyright: Hamersly Library has determined, as of 04/17/2020, this item is in copyright, which is held by John Rector (rectorj@wou.edu).

Identifier

omeka/172

Spatial Coverage

Caburgua (Chile)