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OBJECT TYPE: positive/print/b&w/4.5x6.25
DATE: 1961
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2006.0181.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Yuri Gagarin
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: souvenir photograph
Patents: N/A
General Description: Black & white photograph printed on heavy white cardstock having lightly woven texture; signature appears in blue ink.

Dimensions

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Length: 16.6 cm
Width: 10.7 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Space Technology
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Nova Scotia
Period: This specific card presented to donor in 1961.
Canada: Mass produced souvenir photograph of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space. His Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. The photo was received by the donor at a reception held in Gagarin's honour in Pugwash, NS on August 5, 1961. The donor, James Stonehouse, representing the Pugwash Little League presented Major Gagarin with a ball and bat during that event.
Function: 2-dimensional graphic illustration, usually produced to record event, person or place.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "[Signature]" appears in blue ink on photograph front, below image.
Missing: None.
Finish: Black & white photograph printed on heavy white cardstock having lightly woven texture; signature appears in blue ink.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Photograph, circa 1961, Artifact no. 2006.0181, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2006.0181.001/

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