Record

RefNoTG/1/14/228
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Mr F C Durrant III, Assistant Director, Astronautics, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Date22 August 1977
DescriptionStates they are extremely shocked with Durant's letter of 13 June, stating that the display of lunar surface photographs was 'scrapped', as this display was only on loan to the Smithsonian, a fact that had been carefully stated, and they had also on several occasions inquired whether it was still in use. The vectograph process by which the transparencis were produced is only done very rarely and at great expense in the Polaroid Corporation laboratories, and it would cost at least $2000 to have copies made.

He is therefore sending copies of some of the correspondence and is asking for the Smithsonian to refund the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research with the sum of $2000 to enable them to recreate the display.

Gold would not have held the Smithsonian responsible for any unavoidable damage occurring while the display was on exhibit, but a destruction of a display by the Smithsonian is quite another matter.
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FormatTypescript copy
AccessStatusOpen
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