Title from caption on object: “Huge Multi-Colored Clouds of Smoke...”

July 16, 1945

Berlyn Brixner

Artist, American, 1911 - 2009

ACME Newspictures

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.7 × 20.1 cm (6 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.3 cm (8 1/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.386

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

upper center printed in image: (Top); across bottom printed in image: NY403-8/17-Huge multi-colored clouds of smoke boil to an altitude of more / than 40,000 feet a few moments after the first atomic bomb was set off at / Alamogordo, N. Mex., July 16. Scientists and high Army officials stood / dazed by the spectacle 6 miles distant. It was from there that this and / accompanying photos were made by movie camera, USArmy Photo ex Acme Tel.; on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: n e c 3 2 6 5 9 / www.historicimages.com; by unknown hand, upper right in blue pencil underlined: Atomic bomb; center right in graphite: A14873; lower center stamped in purple ink: CLEVELAND PRESS / AUG 17 1945 / REFERENCE DEPT.

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