Detail View: Image Archives: Interior crater view

File Name: 
NI98-022.jpg
catalog number: 
NI98-022
collection: 
Image Archives
title: 
Interior crater view
creator: 
Harvey H. Nininger
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Christine Powers
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
description: 
Looking across the interior of Barringer Crater, formerly known as the Canyon Diablo crater from its rim. This crater is 3/4 a mile in diameter and was caused by the explosion upon impact of a meteorite. Harvey Nininger was DMNS Curator of Meteorites 1930 - 1946. Note the another photographer on the large rock.
date: 
1920-1940
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, Arizona
modified: 
Shadows/Highlights and Brightness/Contrast adjusted, image cropped using Photoshop CS4.
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
1.49 MB
source: 
2.5 x 3.75 inch nitrate negative scanned with Epson Expression 10000XL at 600 dpi, 8 bit grayscale.
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science