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Title: Atomic bomb test blasts, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
Creator: United States Army
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-08-17
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph. "A229, 8-17-45. International News sound photo from U.S. Army & News of Day newsreel. New Mexico. -- Numbers 5 & 6 in spectacular pix exploding of test atomic bomb. Five shows cap-like puff of smoke acquiring a 'brim' and spreading along ground. In six the ball of flame shoots skyward, black smoke rolls on the ground and a shaft of light reflects on lens of camera 6 miles away." -- caption.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m4620
EXM-P-S-ATO-ENE-TES-ALA-001~1...~2
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4620
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-ATO-ENE-TES-ALA-001~1.jpg
Subject: Atomic energy--Tests--Alamogordo, New Mexico--1945
Time Period: 1945-08-17
Place: Alamogordo
New Mexico
USA
Source: EXM-P-S-ATO-ENE-TES-ALA-001 [Original Filename]
Subjects 29 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: A229 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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