Title from caption on object: "Stars and Stripes on Moon"

July 20, 1969

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.8 × 22 cm (7 × 8 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 27.8 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.21.24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

retouching across recto in black ink; vertical along left edge printed in image: [obscured] SC51) SPACE CE[NTER] [obscured], July 20--STARS AND STRIPES ON MOON -- / Apollo 11 astro[nauts Neil A. Armostron]g and Edwin E. Aldrin plant the / American flag on the [surface of th]e moon tonight. (AP Wirephoto) (dt12355

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