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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
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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]