Title from caption on object: “Detroit Television Viewers Tracked the Rocket's Ascent...”
October 3, 1962
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.5 × 24.3 cm (7 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.643
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top center in orange crayon: top ✓; crop marks upper center, center left, and center right in orange crayon and white ink; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite inverted: 11 am / 3 [illegible] x 5 " / View / [illegible]; center left printed in blue ink: RSH 32579; center stamped in purple ink perpendicular: BY DETROIT NEWS STAFF / PHOTOGRAPHER / H. BUR[illegible]RT / REPORT [illegible] / FINISHED BY; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Detroit television viewers tracked the rocket's ascent until it became a / wobbly ball of fire in the sky. --News Photo.; by unknown hand, center in red ink: Space [circled] / Flights [underlined] / Mercury [underlined] / (Schirra); center right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: 1962 OCT 3 AM 7 35; lower center stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ART DEPT. / 1962 OCT 3 AM 9:50; lower center stamped in purple ink: OCT 3 1962P; by unknown hand, lower center in red ink: 14D