Glenn Gets His Head
Photograph
Glenn Gets His Head
Astronaut in Wax
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23.4 × 16.1 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0214
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Wax Astronaut) 3/62 29) GLENN GETS HIS HEAD, in a test fit of \ his newly modeled wax likeness at Madame Tussaud's. \ His U.S. Marine Corps uniform was contributed by an \ officer of the Corps with Glenn's exact meassurements. \ Credit: Cornell Capa © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
