Title from caption on object: “Atomic Cloud as Seen Off TV Screen”, May 5, 1955

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.2 × 22.1 cm (6 3/8 × 8 11/16 in.)

sheet: 20.7 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.637

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

National Broadcasting Company (publisher) American, founded 1929

Associated Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

vertical along right edge printed in image: (NY14-MAY 5) ATOMIC CLOUD AS SEEN OFF TV SCREEN--This view taken off / NBC television screen shows observers watching cloud from after largest / atomic blast held in the United States was set off on Yucca Flat in / Nevada today. (AP Wirephoto) (see story) (pr50843stf) 1955; on verso, upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: MAY 7 - 1955; upper right printed in black ink perpendicular: ATOMIC BOMB TEST, NEVADA- 1955 / 550 - 350; lower center printed in black ink on applied barcode label inverted: ACJ-171-BS

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary