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File:Mittelholzer-ouagadougou.jpg

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Ouagadougu (Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso) in late December 1930 or early January 1931. Air photo taken by Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937).
Date 1930/1931 (creation), 1932 (publication)
Source Own scan from book "Tschadseeflug" by Walter Mittelholzer, published in 1932 in Switzerland (publisher: "Verlag Schweizer Aero-Revue" in Zürich).
Author Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

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The Swiss copyright on Mittelholzer's work's expired at the end of 1987, since Switzerland had a copyright term of 50 years p.m.a. until 1993, and the extension to 70 years p.m.a. made in 1993 did not restore already expired copyrights.
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