Nuclear Testing Documentation

Historic black-and-white images depicting atmospheric nuclear testing sites and their effects, showcasing desolate landscapes and remnants from tests.

Service eruption of Vesuvius in April 4. 1906. funiculare destroyed by eruption.
Service eruption of Vesuvius in April 4. 1906. funiculare destroyed by eruption.
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Removing ash and lava from Ottaviano station, Vesuvius eruption, Italy, photograph by E Andruzzi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 17, April 22, 1906.
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Albumin paper photograph by Johann Baptist Reiner titled HEFLEAU, TAXMARK, captured in Austria in stereo format between 1862 and 1880.
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New Zealand Geological Society excursion at entrance to Settlers Valley, 28 March 1954, by Leslie Adkin.
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Dislocation of land produced by an earthquake in Japan, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Albumin paper photograph showing artists' templates by Johann Victor Krämer, produced around 1900.
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Elsevier photo collection. Prof. Meinesz vent Hr.Ms. Submarine tiger shark Rotterdam Caribbean Sea left soil investigation. January 23, 1951. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Illustration showing the sum total of food required to feed the animals of the Zoological Society's Gardens (London Zoo) in 1913. This mountain of resources included 185 loads of hay, 124,000 bananas, 158 tons of horse meat and 62 guinea pigs. Date: 17/05/1913
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lotta contro la malaria, studente collabora spruzzando un potente larvicida, luglio 1946
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Detonation. OAK detonation & cloud from Parry Island, observers in foreground (14 of 34). Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Albumin stereo photograph by Pierre Eleonor Ernest Lamy showing Bex and the Tooth of Morcles, created around 1875.
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S66-17288 (15 Jan. 1966) --- Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (on left), command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot of the Gemini-8 prime crew, use a boilerplate model of a Gemini spacecraft during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico. Three Manned Spacecraft Center swimmers assist in the training exercise.
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Possibly the last specimen that survived of Behring's sea cow (Rhytina Stelleri) discovered on the shores of the Henry Island, British Columbia. There was speculation that the serpent was related to the monster in Loch Ness. Date: 1934
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Photograph showing a photographic rocket apparatus with recording equipment capturing images from the rocket, printed on silver gelatin paper in 1904 and mounted on a box.
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Albumin paper by Johann Victor Krämer from 1898-1900 showing artists' templates, illustrating studio preparatory work and late 19th-century artistic practice.
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Albumin photograph by Johann Victor Krämer circa 1900 showing artists' templates and sketches for painting, highlighting visual design and compositional arrangements.
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England. Royal Observatory, Greenwich. It was founded for navigational purposes by King Charles II in 1675. New procedure to obtain photographs of thermometer alterations. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.
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Project 24 - Operation Hardtack (Enewetak/Bikini/Johnnston Island Area) Test Activities. Aerial view of Johnston Island. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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Remains of Eskimo huts. Old 19th century engraved illustration. Second German North Polar Expedition in 1869 from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
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MDC engineers measure and plot silt and other fill giving depth of river , Rivers, Surveying, Surveyors. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt
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Martha Washington's Statue" Views of Mammoth Cave and vicinity. 9. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kentucky, Caves , Kentucky, Mammoth Cave (Ky.)
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Prof. David, Dr. MacKay & Douglas Mawson at South Magnetic Pole.Frontispiece "Heart of *****. December 12, 1950.
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The Great Kantō earthquake (東大震災 Kantō daishinsai) struck the Kantō Plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 11:58 in the morning on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and 10 minutes. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake later surpassed that record, at magnitude 9.0. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the Moment magnitude scale (Mw), with its focus deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in the Sagami Bay. The cause was a rupture of part of the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Sagami Trough. This earthquake devastated Tokyo, the port city of Yokohama, and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Shizuoka, and caused widespread damage throughout the Kantō region. The power was so great in Kamakura, over 60 km (37 mi) from the epicenter, it moved the Great Buddha statue, which weighs about 93 short tons (84,000 kg), almost two feet. Estim
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Derivation work of the valve, May 14, 1870. Source of the brush Derivation work of the valve. Source of the brush. May 14, 1870. Photograph of Auguste-Hippolyte Collard (1812-1887).