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Underwater photography testing, MIT pool (Cambridge, MA) - Jacques Cousteau, 1952

Object summary

Title
Underwater photography testing, MIT pool (Cambridge, MA) - Jacques Cousteau, 1952
Object ID
HEE-SC-01259
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 the MIT pool testing Harold E. Edgerton's underwater camera and flash apparatus, during their first meeting (April 29, 1952). (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
MIT Pool Cousteau 52
Type
handwritten red ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
52
Type
printed black
Location
obverse bottom
Text
9

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