Live Auction 2603The National Geographic Collection: The Art of Exploration
U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY
Lot 16

U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY

Underwater Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, August 1946

Closed6 December 2012

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USD 13,750

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U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY
Underwater Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, August 1946
gelatin silver print
various annotations in pencil/ink, date stamps, typed credit, date and caption on collection label affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 8 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (22.5 x 46cm.)
mount: 9 7/8 x 19in. (25.2 x 48.3cm.)

Specialist note

At the base of the column of water, in the left foreground is the U.S.S. Cruiser, Salt Lake City, and in the right foreground is the Japanese battleship, Nagato.