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Original b / w vintage photo, gelatin silver, from November 1955 taken by the US Army.
The picture shows an American soldier from the engineering troops, USACE, checking the thickness of the ice in the Greenlandic subsoil. A knowledge that the USA i.a. needed during the construction of passages in the underground city of Camp Century, which was built a few years later north of Thule Air Base / Pituffik, as well as during project Iceworm, which was about constructing a network of railway tunnels under the ice sheet that would house more than 600 nuclear missiles .
The text on the picture reads:
"File Number, SC 446064 Army engineers study construction of arctic "subways"
Snow falls on the Greenland Icecap at approximately two or three feet a year and never melts. Each layer is discernible and the army corps of engineers has measured snow falls back to the year 1916. As it packs harder its density becomes an important factor in anticipating the success of sub-surface tunnels and structures. This engineer is using a special instrument to measure density.
Official U.S. Army photo released by the Dept. of Defence Released at Wash.. D.C. Novembner 17. 1955."
The image bears a sticker from Birnback Publishing Service.
Dimensions of photo without frame: 25.70 x 20.50 centimeters.
This is an original b / w photograph from. 1950s with common signs of wear. Contemporary frame included.
SKU 2791
Mid Century Modern and antique interior decoration art are the focus of Quirky Sundays’ Antique & Vintage shop. Our business are dealing with antique and vintage interior design for a warm, eclectic and fun home with a Scandinavian accent.
We are always on the search for wonderful decorative art, e.g. glass, pottery, vases and vessels, lighting, wood, metal, flat-weave rugs and other items that can form a bridge to the people we once were. A home looks great with new furniture and decoration, but to add character and true style in our opinion you also need some things that relates to our cultural background and past.
Our focus expands from the 19th to the 20th century and we aim to make our costumers travel in time through antique and vintage things that our predecessors produced, possessed, cared for and cherised . We focus on the reuse of fantastic decorative art, which are hand made with great craft, artistic inspiration and love.
