[Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946]

Creator Name

U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps

Cultural Context

Date

1946

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

About the work

Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description

Photograph

Work details

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Title

[Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946]

Creator

U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps, , Artist

Worktype

Photographs

Cultural Context

Material

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 23 x 45.2 cm (9 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.);
height: 23centimetre;
width: 45.2centimetre

Technique

Language

Date

1946

Provenance

Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2004

Style Period

Rights

Public Domain

Inscription

Location

Source

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Subjects

Wars

Topic

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U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps, [Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946], 1946, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

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