Title from caption on object: "This Was the Celebration Scene in Mission Control...”
July 24, 1969
Artist, American, 1923 - 2010
Artist, American, est. 1958
William Paul Taub, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.4 × 24.3 cm (6 7/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2018.21.21
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2019
By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in blue ink: 124 / 84 / [horizontal line] / 2[0]8; upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / spx21146; by unknown hand, center in blue ink circled: 4; center stamped in red ink: Spokesman-Review / JUL 25 1969; across bottom printed in black ink on applied newspaper: THIS WAS the celebration scene in Mission Control, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, after Apollo 11 made flawless splashdown.; bottom left stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: Spokesman-Review / JUL 25 1969; bottom right stamped in blue ink: REVIEW PICTURE/PAGE [FOR FRI]; by unknown hand, bottom right in red pencil: [illegible]