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Photographs and maps from Apollo, Skylab, and Viking Projects and images of the comet Kohoutek

Title: Photographs and maps from Apollo, Skylab, and Viking Projects and images of the comet Kohoutek [graphic] / NASA.
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publication: 1968-1973

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Genre/Form

Publicity photographs.
Portraits.
Maps.
Photographic prints.
Photographic prints – Color.
Silver gelatin prints.
Slides.
Space photographs.
Transparencies.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
NASA produced photographs, many with captions stamped on verso, or accompanying images. Most images have numbering on recto or verso that relate the images to date or mission. Remote sensing images maps for Apollo 16 are printed on plastic and have holes for mounting maps in a binder; scales vary. Some maps have markings in red ink. Some maps are mosaics of images.

Provenance (note)

Gift of Jules Bergman, 1984.

Exhibitions (note)

Self Evidence, NYPL, 1993, Reed College, 1994.
New acquisitions, NYPL, 1985.

Call Number

MFY 95-30

OCLC

NYPG95-F61

Author

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Title

Photographs and maps from Apollo, Skylab, and Viking Projects and images of the comet Kohoutek [graphic] / NASA.

Imprint

1968-1973

Description

35 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 28 x 28 cm. or smaller.

111 photographic prints : col. ; 8 x 10 in.

19 transparencies : col. ; 4 x 5 in.

18 transparencies : col. ; 70mm.

1 roll (37 transparencies) : col. ; 70mm.

20 slides : col. ; 35mm.

15 remote sensing maps : plastic ; 57 x 27 cm. or smaller, folded to 19 x 27 cm.

Summary

Photographs from Project Apollo, Skylab, Viking and other NASA projects. Includes Apollo 13-17, Skylab 1-4, and images of models, artist conceptions and testing for the Space Shuttle; views of building and testing equipment; astronauts training, doing a food compatibility test, visiting launch pad, during extravehicular activity, on the moon conducting experiments, with flag, bathing in Skylab, and formal portraits; plaque left on the moon commemorating astronauts and cosmonauts that had died in service; spider carried aboard Skylab; views of space craft on the launch pad and during lift-off, parachutes deployed; Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston; differential movement simulator; undersea research vessel to be used in Tektite II and III; artists conceptions of lunar landing site, deployment of satellite from Apollo 16, Skylab cluster, rescue vehicle, solar shield, multiple docking adapter. Places pictured from Apollo and Skylab include San Francisco Bay, N. Utah, Lake Superior, Paducah, Ky., Tulsa, Ok., U.S.S.R., Mediterranean coast of France, Phoenix, Ariz., Caribbean coast of Venezula, West Africa, clouds, river delta, and the surface of the moon. Individuals pictured include NASA officials Dr. Kurt Debus and James Chipman Fletcher, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. Smith, David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden, James B. Irwin, Paul J. Weitz, James P. Kerwin, and Charles Conrad, Jr.

Views from the Viking Project include distant views of Mars, remote mapping of the surface and views on the surface. Comet Kohoutek going behind the sun, and an artist's rendition of how the comet would appear above Washington.

Provenance

Gift of Jules Bergman, 1984.

Exhibitions

Alan B. Shepard...stands beside the deployed American flag... / Edgar D. Mitchell; and, Moon rocks / Edgar D. Mitchell or Alan Shepard, exhibited: Self Evidence, NYPL, 1993, Reed College, 1994.

Alan B. Shepard...stands beside the deployed American flag.... / by Edgar D. Mitchell exhibited: New acquisitions, NYPL, 1985.

Added Author

Mitchell, Edgar D. Photographer

Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923- Photographer

Research Call Number

MFY 95-30

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