Title from caption on object: "Stars and Stripes on Moon", July 20, 1969

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 17.8 × 22 cm (7 × 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 27.8 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.24

Artists / Makers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (artist) American, est. 1958

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2019: By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.