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Submersible SOUCOUPE - Jacques Cousteau, 1959

Object summary

Title
Submersible SOUCOUPE - Jacques Cousteau, 1959
Object ID
HEE-SC-00610
Date made
1959-09-
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

Jacques Cousteau in suit and tie, looking at the SOUCOUPE submersible hanging from a derrick over the deck of his research vessel CALYPSO in 1959. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse bottom
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
59
Type
printed black
Location
obverse bottom
Text
16
Type
impression
Location
obverse bottom
Text
SEP 1959

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