Still Image Collection, 1986-1993.

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Still Image Collection, 1986-1993.

The collection includes still image photographic negatives with corresponding positive prints created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photolab. The images were taken between May 1986 and November 1993 in support of various research and development projects. Included also are photographs of Laboratory buildings plus spacecraft at various construction stages, as well as their final explorative products.

60.6 cubic ft. (about 22,378 numbered items in four filing cabinets; mainly 4 x 5 in. silver halide photographic negatives and positives; mainly color; some black and white).

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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...