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Deep-sea photography, R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV - 1969

Object summary

Title
Deep-sea photography, R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV - 1969
Object ID
HEE-SC-08075
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

Two unidentified men adjust equipment on a Russian deep-sea camera system, during an expedition to the mid-Atlantic Rift Valley on board the Soviet research vessel R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV, in 1969. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten blue ink
Location
obverse bottom
Text
RUSSIAN CAMERA
Type
handwritten blue ink
Location
obverse bottom
Text
EDGERTON.
Type
handwritten pencil
Location
obverse left
Text
66 [in circle]
Type
handwritten pencil
Location
obverse left
Text
JIM [Sholer?]

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