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High-speed photography, flying fish (Catalina Island, CA) - 1940?

Object summary

Title
High-speed photography, flying fish (Catalina Island, CA) - 1940?
Object ID
HEE-SC-07566
Place made

United States

Maker
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type
Color slide
Major collection
Technology
Photography
Named collection
Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view
Yes
Exhibition
Liquid Archive
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Description

Two men hold up a flying fish, during high-speed photgraphy efforts near Catalina Island (CA) in 1940 (?). See HEE-NC-40012 and "Stopping Time" (1987), p. 64. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse right
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
Catalina Island
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse left
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
Edgerton

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