Title from caption on object: “Glenn Prepares for Space Flight”
January 1962
American 20th Century, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Artist
Artist, American, est. 1958
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.9 × 21.6 cm (7 1/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 22.3 cm (8 1/8 × 8 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.533
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks around perimeter in grease pencil; by unknown hand, upper center in red ink circled: top; upper right in black ink: x; upper right in grease pencil: 67.5; lower left Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; on verso, upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: JAN 26 1962E; upper right stamped in black ink perpendicular: NO CUT FILED / 366 - 54 C; along right edge stamped in black ink: SPACE SHIPS: MERCURY - ORBITAL 1ST - MANNED / GLENN, JOHN H. JR.; by unknown hand, center left in graphite circled: 4 5/8; center in blue ink: Glenn / [obscured printing notes]; center printed in applied photo paper perpendicular: (CB6) CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., Jan. 25-GLENN PREPARES FOR SPACE FLIGHT-- / Astronaut John Glenn looks through plastic on which are drawn heavenly / bodies at a plastic globe as he gets ready to make his scheduled three / orbital flight around the earth this Saturday. Picture was released by / the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tonight. / (NASA Photo via AP Wirephoto) (pjm52340nasa) 1962; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: JAN 26 8 11 AM 1962; lower left printed in black ink on applied barcode label inverted: ADT-216-BS; lower center stamped in black ink inverted: OTHER