Negative Still Image Collection, 1940-1986.

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Negative Still Image Collection, 1940-1986.

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The collection includes about 360,000 still image photographic negatives created by the JPL Photolab, with accompanying filing logs. The photographs include images taken in support of the research and development activity of the Laboratory as well as portraits of individuals and groups of Laboratory people. Photographs of construction and remodeling of JPL structures are included, as well as photographs documenting equipment built and deployed by the Laboratory. Photographs taken after 1959 include data images taken by various JPL spacecraft and photographs of those spacecraft under construction.

483.1 cubic ft. in three types of filing cabinets/boxes.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8106332

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California. The JPL is owned by NASA and managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology. The laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network. Among the laboratory's major active projects are the Mars Scien...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.). Photolab.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...

Hewitt, John C.

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Emmerson, George, 1913-1994.

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