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Project Mercury 7, Alan Shepard, Signed Portrait Photograph [and] Photographs of Other Events, Including a Parade in his Honor. Black-and-white 9 x 5 1/2 in. portrait of Shepard signed in black ink; black-and-white 8 x 10 in. press photo showing Shepard receiving the Navy's new pilot-astronaut wings from Admiral George Anderson; and three black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photographs of the Washington, DC, held in Shepard's honor. (5)
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $400-600
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George Anderson, Washington, DCJohn Dorfman
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