Cornfield Cruiser
Photograph
Cornfield Cruiser
ca. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 11 15/16 × 10 in. (30.4 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0018
Inscriptions Backprinted on verso, OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Printed on paper label and affixed to verso, BC: CORNFIELD CRUISER -- The superstructure of a U.S. Navy AEGIS ship seems to rise \ out of the corn in Moorestown, N.J. It actually is the Navy's Combat System \ Engineering Development site -- a three-story building with a ship's superstructure \ on top -- where the AEGIS Surface Ship Combat System is being tested. Developed \ and built by RCA Missile and Surface Radar in Moorestown, AEGIS is a combination \ of advanced radars, computers and weapons that gives the fleet a potent seaborne \ combat capability. First of the AEGIS ships will join the fleet in the early 1980s. \ - 0 - \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: RCA CORPORATION \ Slug: CORNFIELD CRUISER \ Neg. No.: RCA 6692 \ 92079
Printed on paper label and affixed to verso, BC: CORNFIELD CRUISER -- The superstructure of a U.S. Navy AEGIS ship seems to rise \ out of the corn in Moorestown, N.J. It actually is the Navy's Combat System \ Engineering Development site -- a three-story building with a ship's superstructure \ on top -- where the AEGIS Surface Ship Combat System is being tested. Developed \ and built by RCA Missile and Surface Radar in Moorestown, AEGIS is a combination \ of advanced radars, computers and weapons that gives the fleet a potent seaborne \ combat capability. First of the AEGIS ships will join the fleet in the early 1980s. \ - 0 - \ From: John A. DeMilia \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: RCA CORPORATION \ Slug: CORNFIELD CRUISER \ Neg. No.: RCA 6692 \ 92079
