Title from caption on object: “Atomic Blast”
July 25, 1946
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 10.4 × 21 cm (4 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
sheet: 18.1 × 22.7 cm (7 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.400
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The Plain Dealer Library, Cleveland, OH. (sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in red pencil: Atomic Bomb / Bikini; upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: DEC 12 1946; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted; center right stamped in red ink perpendicular: CLEVELAND NEWS / REFERENCE DEPARTMENT / CLEVELAND / OHIO; by unknown hand, lower left in red ink circled, perpendicular, and underlined: bomb; lower center stamped in purple ink inverted: PHOTO ENGRAVING / NOV 29 AM 11:05; lower center: PHOTO ENGRAVING / DEC 18 AM 10 [illegible]; lower right stamped in blue ink: PLAIN DEALER LIBRARY / PD DEC 27 '72 / JAN 23 1973; by unknown hand, lower right in red pencil: Pg17A; bottom center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: ATOMIC BLAST–The underwater atomic blast in Bikini Lagoon, [circled in red pencil] July 25, produced this / ["mus]hroom-shaped" cloud formation a moment after the explosion.; by unknown hand, bottom right in red pencil: H