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Title
Robert Floyd Dill, Walter Heinrich Munk, and Richard Blumberg prepare to lower a deep-sea camera enclosed in a watertight case into the ocean
Creator
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Contributor
Spencer F. Baird (Ship)
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Capricorn Expedition Photographs
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Permission may be obtained from the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Note from inscribed title: Cut off from the top of this photo is the strobe unit in a similar turret above the camera, which supplies the light source for the camera. The flat disk at the very bottom of this devise is called the "shoe" which actually touches the sea-floor.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Capricorn Expedition Photograph Collection.
Library Services and Technology Act - California Explores the Ocean
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb82945799
Subject
Cameras
Oceanographic instruments
Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019
Blumberg, Richard E
Dill, Robert Floyd, 1927-
Place
Oceania
Pacific Islands

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