Title from caption on object: "‘Man in Moon’ Target for Surveyor 2, 1966

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20.7 × 18 cm (8 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.)

sheet: 21.8 × 18 cm (8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.34

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

center left printed in image: SURVEYOR 1 / JUNE 2, 1966; center right: SURVEYOR 2 / SEPT. 23, 1966; lower center: SINUS MEDII / (Central Bay); on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / spa91928; by unknown hand, center in blue ink on applied newspaper: Prix[?]; center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: Spokesman Review / SEP 21 1966; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / 'Man in Moon' Target for Surveyor 2 / Target is a plain in almost the exact center of the moon as seen from the earth.; lower center stamped in red ink: Spokesman Review / SEP 21 1966

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary