Troops of the 11th airborne division watch a nuclear detonation at the A.E.C (Atomic Energy Commission) Nevada Test Site
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Troops of the 11th airborne division watch a nuclear detonation at the A.E.C (Atomic Energy Commission) Nevada Test Site

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Photograph

Acme Telephoto

Maker
American

Troops of the 11th airborne division watch a nuclear detonation at the A.E.C (Atomic Energy Commission) Nevada Test Site

November 2, 1951
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 9/16 × 6 5/8 in. (21.8 × 16.9 cm)
Paper: 8 15/16 × 7 in. (22.7 × 17.8 cm)
Museum accession
2007.0053.0002
Inscriptions inscribed in red crayon on recto, LT: 56 [sideways]
typed in image on recto, RT [along right edge]: LV21-11/2/51-LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Troops of the 11th airborne division watch a nuclear detonation \ at the AEC Nevada Test Site... / ACME TELEPHOTO [sideways]
inscribed in red crayon on verso, TL: 8 1/8 [circled]
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