Title from caption on object: “Gherman Titov, the Soviet Cosmonaut...”

August 6, 1961

Gherman Stepanovich Titov

Artist, Russian, 1935 - 2000

United Press International

Publisher

Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA)

Publisher, est. 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.3 × 16.7 cm (8 3/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.2 × 17.7 cm (9 1/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.532

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along right edge printed in image: WAP 050117 5/1/62 WASHINGTON: Gherman Titov, the Soviet cosmonaut, photographed by TV during / his famous orbital flight. This picture was released by the Russian Embassy here 5/1 after / Titov told a New York news conference that pictures had been made during the flight. (PIC- / TURE AND BASIC CAPTION INFORMATION FROM SOVIET GOVERNMENT). UPI TELEPHOTO rkm; on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: n e d 5 0 4 4 5 / www.historicimages.com; center left UPI copyright stamp in black ink inverted; lower left stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE / MAY 9 '62 / N.E.A.; by unknown hand, lower center in blue ink: A92884

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