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Underwater photographic instrument demonstration - Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, 1953

Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: France
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Measurements: 2" x 2"

Jacques Cousteau, with his sons Jean-Michel (far left) and Philippe (second from the left) and two other children, givies a demonstration of underwater camera equipment on board CALYPSO in 1953. (CC)


HEE-SC-01189

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