Unidentified Photographer

TITLE ON OBJECT: Army Troops See Atomic Blast.
PUBLISHED TITLE: "Troops get 'feel'of atomic warefare."

1951
gelatin silver print
24.4 x 19.3 cm.
Gift of the Associated Press
92:0902:0012

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Fulton, Marianne. --The Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1988. p. 163.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 633.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in image) "(LV10) Las Vegas, Nev. Nov 1 - Army Troops See Atomic Blast. Members of the 11th Airborne Div. of Camp Campbell, Ken, kneel and watch today's Atomic Explosion after [sic]" verso-(applied label) "Flat Test Base near Las Vegas, see the mushrooming atomic cloud soaring after the explosion. GWW/RC 12/4/51 FLS USA 179 PAR GER MEX PR NWSDAY LIB (?)"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/97, DZ. Published title from --Eyes of Time--.

SUBJECTS:
event, atomic explosion
people, soldiers