Object Details
- Subject
- Schultz, Leonard P (Leonard Peter) 1901-
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Operation Crossroads was an expedition to Bikini and the northern Marshall Islands in 1946 under the auspices of the Department of the Navy. Dr. Leonard P. Schultz. Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, was in charge of the biological investigation of the reef fishes in the area. His investigations centered on the relative abundance of fauna before and after the atom bomb tests. Specimens were collected for the purpose of comparison and to make possible a study of anatomical variations among the various island fish populations.
- See Neg. #s for Operation Crossroads 1946: 91-6345, SIA2010-0895, SIA2010-0896, SIA2010-0897, SIA2010-0899, SIA2010-0900, SIA2010-0901, SIA2010-0902, SIA2010-0903, SIA2010-0904, SIA2010-0905, SIA2010-0906, SIA2010-0907, SIA2010-0908, SIA2010-0922, SIA2010-0923, SIA2010-0973, SIA2010-0974
- Summary
- This photograph is of the atomic blast on Bikini Atoll from sea level. The ships being tested can be seen underneath the mushroom cloud caused by the atomic bomb.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222, Box 26, Folder: 4
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1946
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0973 and Neg. #91-6355
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 9w x 6h; Type of Image:Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Marshall Islands
- Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
- Pacific Ocean
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Atomic Bomb Tests
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Nuclear weapons--Testing
- Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946/1947
- Scientific expeditions
- Ships
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13856
