Title from caption on object: “How We Look from Outer Space”, December 24, 1968

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.3 × 18.2 cm (6 13/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

sheet: 20.2 × 24.9 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.584

Artists / Makers

Bill Anders (artist) American, born 1933

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (artist) American, est. 1958

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

vertical along left edge printed in image: (ONE OF A SERIES OF PICTURES ON U.S. MAN IN SPACE PROGRAM) [underlined] / (NY7-June 26) HOW WE LOOK FROM OUTER SPACE-This is how the earth looks / from outer space. Picture shows the rising earth as seen by Apollo 8 / astronauts as they came from behind the moon on their mission last / December. The earth was approximately 240,000 statute miles away / from the Apollo 8 spacecraft when this picture was taken. (AP Wire- / photo) (d50010fls)1969; on verso, by unknown hand, top center printing notes in graphite; center stamped in red ink: JUN 30 1969

Provenance

Rhys M. Yeakley, Wilder, ID; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary