Title from caption on object: “Checking Rocks at Camelot”, December 12, 1972

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 15.7 × 23.1 cm (6 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 23.1 cm (8 × 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.654

Artists / Makers

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

Associated Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

vertical along left edge printed in image: (MSC2-Dec. 13)--CHECKING ROCKS AT CAMELOT--Apollo 17 [circled in blue ink] Astronaut / Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, right, bends down amid boulders / to check rock formations during a visit to the Camelot / Crater, Station 5 of the second EVA Tuesday night. Eugene A. / Cernan, flight commander, stands by to receive a sample to / be numbered and bagged. (AP Wirephoto from NASA television) / (dt40500efk)1972; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / nosp1349; center right stamped in red ink: DEC 14 1972

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary