Namuncai sawmill
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Title
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Namuncai sawmill
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Creator
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Rector, John Lawrence, 1943-
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Date
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1967
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Type
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Image; StillImage
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Description
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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.
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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
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Identifier
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omeka/172
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Spatial Coverage
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Caburgua (Chile)