Title from caption on object: “An Early Phase of the Nuclear Blast...”
April/May 1951
American 20th Century
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        Artwork overview
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            Mediumgelatin silver print with applied color 
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            Dimensionsimage/sheet: 20.7 × 30.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.) 
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            Accession Number2018.177.660 
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
retouching across recto in white and grey paint; on verso, center stamped in green ink on applied newspaper: [?] TIMES; center: JUN 14 1951; across bottom printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / AN EARLY PHASE OF THE NUCLEAR BLAST at the spring atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok is shown in this photograph, / released yesterday by the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington. As the force of the blast spread upward and outward, it / took on the appearance of a World War I army helmet—(Wirephoto)
 
   
   
    