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Deep-sea photography, R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV - Jim Sholer, Ila Popova, 1969

Object summary

Title
Deep-sea photography, R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV - Jim Sholer, Ila Popova, 1969
Object ID
HEE-SC-08073
Date made
1969-09-
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

Jim Sholer and Ila Popova with a deep-sea camera system (labeled SNOKKIS? SNORRIS?), likely on board the Soviet research vessel AKADEMIK KURCHATOV, in 1969. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
ILA POPOVA
Type
handwritten black ink
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
JIM SHOLER
Type
handwritten blue ink
Location
obverse right
Text
ON USSR SHIP
Type
handwritten pencil
Location
obverse left
Text
64 [in circle]
Type
printed red
Location
obverse left
Text
12
Type
printed red
Location
obverse left
Text
SEP 69 N 19

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