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| Title | One of the steel tower that housed the automatic cameras that filmed explosions during Operation Crossroads, Bikini Island, summer 1949 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1949 |
| Notes | Images documenting the 1949 Bikini-Enewetak Resurvey Project.
Caption in scrapbook: The relics of Crossroads
The Crossroads explosions were filmed by automatic cameras slung in tall steel towers placed on Enyu, Bikini and Amen Islands and at one or two other spots about the lagoon. This tower stands at the mid-point on Bikini Island, its camera platform at least 150 feet above the ground. Lowman had tried an ascension, with camera, in 1948. Wiser in 1949, he did his work nearer the ground -- except for one frantic flight about the lagoon in the Navy's PBY aircraft.
Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Likiep Atolls Scrapbook, p. 49. |
| Source | Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Likiep Atolls |
| Album/Page | 1.49b |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Towers--Marshall Islands--Bikini Atoll
Palms--Marshall Islands--Bikini Atoll
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Operation Crossroads, 1946
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| Location Depicted | Marshall Islands - Bikini Atoll |
| Digital Collection | Lauren R. Donaldson Collection
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| Order Number | DON0065 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Lauren R. Donaldson Papers. Accession No. 2932-007, Box 20 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL at 100-250 dpi in JPEG format, saved at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2007. |
