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Oceanographic expedition, Puerto Rico Trench - John Brackett Hersey, 1961

Object summary

Title
Oceanographic expedition, Puerto Rico Trench - John Brackett Hersey, 1961
Object ID
HEE-SC-00379
Date made
1961-07
Place made

United States

Maker
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type
Color slide
Major collection
Technology
Photography
Named collection
Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view
No
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Description

John Brackett Hersey (center) and another man examine muddy rocks on board a ship, during a WHOI oceanographic expedition on board R/V CHAIN to the Puerto Rico Trench in 1961. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
HERSEY
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Text
61
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse right
Inscriber
Edgerton?
Text
KR. [?] PUERTO RICO F30
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse left
Text
[crossed circle]
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse left
Text
JUL 61

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