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(MILITARY AND SPACE EXPLORATION)

Group of 26 large-format photographs depicting early rocket and space capsule launches.

With views of the Atlas Missile containing L. Gordon Cooper (who orbited the Earth 22 times);

the recovery of Discoverer XVII; Enos, the U.S. space chimp (who orbited the Earth twice); Gemini-

IV spacecraft splashed down, Gemini spacecraft -VI and -VII rendezvousing, a simulated space walk;

the U.S. Navy’s vanguard rocket heading into the “wild blue yonder;”“the largest section of Mother

Earth taken at one time;” and more. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 13

1

/

4

x9

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/

2

inches

(33.7x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheet slightly larger, a few with retouching or grease pencil

notations on recto, several with the reproduced newspaper image and each with hand stamps on

verso. 1960-82

[1,500/2,500]