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Aerial night photography, MIT campus (Cambridge, MA) - 1944

Object summary

Title
Aerial night photography, MIT campus (Cambridge, MA) - 1944
Object ID
HEE-SC-08180
Date made
1973-01-
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

Aerial night photograph of the MIT campus along the Charles River, taken at 80,000 watt-seconds in 1944; note airplane displayed in Killian Courtyard. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
handwritten black marker
Location
obverse top
Inscriber
Edgerton
Text
EDGERTON
Type
handwritten black marker
Location
obverse bottom left
Text
[crossed circle]
Type
handwritten red ink
Location
obverse bottom left
Text
[crossed circle?]
Type
printed black
Location
obverse left
Text
23 [?]
Type
printed black
Location
obverse left
Text
JAN 73 N6

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