Title from caption on object: “View of Bomb Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico”
September 1945
Artist
Publisher
Publisher, est. 1902
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17 × 21.2 cm (6 11/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 18.3 × 22.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.387
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: n e c 4 9 0 0 7 / www.historicimages.com; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite underlined and inverted: [illegible] Atomic [illegible]; center left in graphite inverted: ✓ [illegible] Alamos Atomic B / A73121; center Acme copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: REF. DEPT. / 9-13 45 / N.E.A.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite crossed out: A73943; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: VIEW OF BOMB SITE / ALAMOGORDO, N.M.- Aerial view of atomic bomb testing site / near Alamogordo, N.M. Blast dug shallow crater 300 feet / around tower from which bomb hung; seared sand into jade / green glasslike cinders (dark area) for 2,400 feet around / tower. Devastated area (light area) measures 4,800 feet / in diameter. / List 30T Ind Dnv No McK Peo / Credit "ACME" (Ls) 9/10/45