Title from caption on object: “An Early Phase of the Nuclear Blast...”, April/May 1951

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 20.7 × 30.3 cm (8 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.660

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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)

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary