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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-02120
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 his swimsuit at the MIT pool in April 1952, examines Harold E. Edgerton's underwater camera which he just tested. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
Cosuteau
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
52
Type
handwritten red ink
Location
obverse right
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
52
Type
printed black
Location
obverse left
Text
11
Type
handwritten pencil
Location
obverse left
Text
41-11/5

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