Title from caption on object: "This Photo, Taken of the Moon at the Instant Russian Rocket Hit...”, September 14, 1959

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 14.1 × 18.4 cm (5 9/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

sheet: 15.1 × 22.8 cm (5 15/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.23

Artists / Makers

Finnish 20th Century (artist)

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, top center in orange crayon: TOP; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: TOP; upper left stamped in purple ink: ENGRAVING / 1959 SEP 14 PM; upper center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: SEP 14 1959; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite underlined: [partially obscured by newspaper] [Moon Lan]ding 2 1/2'; upper right UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / [UPI RADIOTELEPHOTO] / This photo, taken of the moon [circled in blue crayon] / at the instant Russian Rocket hit, was made by the Markovitch camera of Helsinki.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite circled and inverted: 44 1/2; printed in black ink on applied barcode label: AFY-661-CT

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary