Joint Army Navy Task Force - First Atomic Bomb Test (Operation Crossroads, Able) at Bikini Atoll, June 30, 1946 (Rising column of water enters the first phase of characteristic mushroom. At the base of the column of water is cruiser SALT LAKE CITY; in foreground is Japanese battleship NAGATO, Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean) – Works

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Joint Army Navy Task Force - First Atomic Bomb Test (Operation Crossroads, Able) at Bikini Atoll, June 30, 1946 (Rising column of water enters the first phase of characteristic mushroom. At the base of the column of water is cruiser SALT LAKE CITY; in foreground is Japanese battleship NAGATO, Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean)

Unidentified artist, American, 20th century

1946

Medium/Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 17.1 × 22.2 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for Photography

Accession Number2023.596

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPhotographs

Provenance2019, sold by Daniel/Oliver Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, to Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York; 2023, sold by Keith de Lellis Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2023)