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Color photograph of USS Intrepid's flight deck taken from the island, with a rearview mirror in…
Rearview Mirror
Color photograph of USS Intrepid's flight deck taken from the island, with a rearview mirror in…
Color photograph of USS Intrepid's flight deck taken from the island, with a rearview mirror in the center of the image

Rearview Mirror

Object NamePhotograph
Historic Owner
Date1972–1974
PeriodCold War
Mediumphotographic paper
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of the Jerry Glueck family. P2017.12.16
Object numberP2017.12.16
DescriptionPhotograph, Color; Square image of USS Intrepid's flight deck, looking down toward the bow from the island. A Grumman E-1B Tracer has just launched off the starboard steam catapult. A trail of steam billows from the catapult track. Flight deck personnel in their colored uniforms stand next to the track and in the center of the image. Another Tracer is taxiing in the lower left. Other aircraft are parked on the forward port side of the deck. The exterior of the navigation bridge is visible on the right half of the image. The island's rearview mirror is in the top center of the image. The open water is calm and the sky is gray.

The bottom left corner has “Technicolor”. The back of the paper has, “Kodak Paper” across it and is captioned in blue ink, “Flight Deck”.
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Collections
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Jerry Glueck
1972–74
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Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.17
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Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.06
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Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.08
Color photograph of USS Intrepid's island, with yellow aircraft carts parked in front of it
Jerry Glueck
June 1972
Object number: P2017.12.19
Color photograph of cookies, candies, crackers and other snacks stored in a locker under a bunk…
Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.04
Color photograph of a Grumman E-1B Tracer on Intrepid's flight deck
Marshall N. Morton
1966
Object number: P2021.40.73
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Elmer B. Fiorini
December 5, 1957
Object number: P2023.66.02
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Elmer B. Fiorini
December 5, 1957
Object number: P2023.66.03
Black and white photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid's flight deck with waves surrou…
Elmer B. Fiorini
December 5, 1957
Object number: P2023.66.08
Color photograph of a ship's boiler, with a man inside cleaning it visible through a circular h…
Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.11
Color photograph of a man inside one of USS Intrepid's boilers
Jerry Glueck
1972–1974
Object number: P2017.12.30