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Underwater photography instruments - Louis Malle, Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Simone Cousteau, early 1950s

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"

Louis Malle, Simone Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau (back row, left to right), with Philippe Cousteau (next to Jean-Michel) and two unidentified children, examine a disassembled underwater camera on board CALYPSO in the early 1950s. (CC)


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