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- From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
- Subject: Re: European vs American
- In-Reply-To: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 19 Nov 92 12:00:11 +1100
- Message-ID: <SHAFER.92Nov18202044@ra.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.
- References: <721678560.F00001@ocitor.fidonet> <1992Nov16.213322.26910@u.washington.edu>
- <1992Nov19.120011.90646@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:20:52 GMT
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- lcatlett@carson.u.washington.edu (Lynn Catlett) writes:
- >> I'd guess that that's part of it. No museum near *me* has garments
- >> from our period that I could look at, even through a museum glass. In
- > . . .
- >> leave nose prints on the glass above the surgeon's cap......
- >> Gwenllian Cwmystwyth
- >
- > Doesn't this drive you wild? Isn't it possible to
- > use some form of alternate radiation/backlighting/
- > SOMETHING so that the viewer can actually SEE the
- > *craft* rather than the *fashion*? When "Son of Heaven"
- > .....
-
- Two weeks ago I spent a morning at the Smithsonian's National Air and
- Space Museum, photographing one of their displays that a curator had
- removed from its display case for me. (It was the Kelly Johnson
- Trophy; my husband, Ken Iliff, was the recipient in 1989.) Everyone
- (the curator and the two men who actually removed the case) acted like
- this was quite a normal event.
-
- I'd called the week before to set it up and it went very well. They
- did have me come early, before the Museum opened, so that we'd be
- undisturbed but this was more an advantage than otherwise.
-
- The curator told me that they make a lot of their displays available
- to researchers in this manner; it's part of the museum's role. They
- also make a lot of their collection that's not on display available.
- The stuff on display is only the tip of the iceberg.
-
- If you really want to see something, maybe asking will make it possible.
-
- The trophy is lucite, silver (or chrome), and oak, so there was no
- difficulty with my using flash. Textiles, of course, might be more
- sensitive. Perhaps a tripod and fastish film?
-
- --
- Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
- shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov Of course I don't speak for NASA
- "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all." Unknown US fighter pilot
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