![]() Unfortunately, the Archives is closed due to Covid-19 without someone onsite there to see if they have original or copy negatives for the images, we won’t be able to advance the story much. That said, anything is possible,” says Holly Reed of the Still Picture Reference Team at the National Archives and Records Administration, the repository of all Official U.S. ![]() “I am afraid I have never heard such a thing and would have thought it would have been noticed if we were using copy negatives for these images. None of the photo archivists we contacted were aware of this either, and all are intrigued. I have never heard about the negatives’ loss and am hoping you’ll find it as fascinating as I have and want to learn more. He passed copies of those negatives along to me. Navy Photographer’s Mate Third Class Allan Thomas Kimmell-and others working at a photo lab in the Philippines photographed prints to make new negatives. Navy photographer took of the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri were lost, “probably during a gala on ship in New York Harbor.” When the loss was discovered, he-U.S. While going through my father’s wartime memorabilia, I happened upon a notebook in which he explains that original negatives of images a U.S. Negative Consequences Aboard the USS Missouri CloseĬurators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries.
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