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LL/120278
Unidentified photographer
1952, 29 April
Nuclear test bomb

Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
19.5 x 18.5 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction, 8 June 2022, Photography from the 19th - 21st centuries, Lot: 4219
 
Newspaper cutting, Associated Press "Wirephoto" stamp and annotated in ink on the verso.
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The newspaper clipping on the verso reads: "Blast forms Fireball. This huge ball of fire formed 3,000 feet above the floor of the Nevada desert a moment after Tuesday's nuclear explosion. While streamers rising skyward were caused by rockets fired almost simultaneously".
 
LL/120278


 

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