Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

363 c   (SPACE EXPLORATION) A striking group of 7 NASA photographs. With images of the Apollo 12 crew taking lunar samples; NASA scientists working in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; cross-sections of Mercury’s landscape; and a schematic of the plaque that accompanied the spacecraft Pioneer F into deep space, depicting two humans and identifying the solar system from which the craft was launched, in pictograms. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 7 1 / 2 x9 1 / 2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and smaller, the sheets 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with NASA’s logo, mimeographed captions, and dates stamped on verso. 1969-75 [900/1,200]