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Modern shipwreck PRINZ EUGEN (Kwajalein Lagoon, Marshall Islands) - Harold E. Edgerton 1956

Object summary

Title
Modern shipwreck PRINZ EUGEN (Kwajalein Lagoon, Marshall Islands) - Harold E. Edgerton 1956
Object ID
HEE-SC-00694
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

Two men perched at the top of the huge propellor of the German WWII heavy cruiser PRINZ EUGEN, in the Marshall Islands. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
EUGENE
Type
handwritten pencil
Location
obverse bottom
Text
[spot circle in corner]
Type
printed black
Location
obverse left
Text
6

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