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Object Timeline

1954	Work on this object began.
1991	We acquired this object.
2006	We photographed this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
2013	This was an Object of the Day.
2014	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
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Sidewall, Astronauts & Spaceships

This is a sidewall. It was manufactured by The Prager Company, Inc. and Thibaut. It is dated 1954 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is machine printed on textured ground. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

With scenes of lunar landings and astronauts charting their progress space wallpapers were looking to the future. This paper pre-dates Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s successful launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957, and the first walk on the moon by Neil Armstrong in 1969. One of many wallpapers featuring space ships and astronauts designed for boys in the 1950s, these were meant to fascinate and amuse as much as to educate.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Looking into the Future.

This object was donated by Suzanne Lipschutz. It is credited Gift of Suzanne Lipschutz.

This drawing depicts a multiple-story building using thin lines from the base of the building looking upward. Angled diagonally to the top lefft corner, the building shoots out of of the ground surrounded by triangles with sketched lines, resembling mini mountains. The core of the building is long and slim, the first story landing starting far up from the ground. Directly underneath the first story balcony is a blue, geodesic space with six visible glass walls, that encloses the middle of the building. It is the only color on the page, depicted using a sky-blue. From there, the drawing shows the underside of what looks to be balconies highlighting the multi-storied nature of the building. With the exterior walls of the building further inward, each story or 'deck' extends outward in a tiered, pagoda-like manner. At the top of the building is a construction crane, its hook extending all the way from the top to the glass enclosure.

Print, Design for the Ten-Deck House
mimeograph print, brush and blue watercolor on white paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1991-53-1

Mark V Pressure Suit (developmental) (USA)

Mark V Pressure Suit (developmental) (USA)
nylon, rubber/neoprene, brass, aluminum, neoprene-coated nylon, steel, pvc,....
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Transferred from NASA, 1980-0041-000.
16.2012.22

Its dimensions are

Overall: 126 x 52.5 cm (49 5/8 x 20 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed on selvage: "RUN 7, U.W.P.C. OF N.A. MADE IN U.S.A."

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Astronauts & Spaceships; Manufactured by The Prager Company, Inc., Thibaut; USA; machine printed on textured ground; Overall: 126 x 52.5 cm (49 5/8 x 20 11/16 in.); Gift of Suzanne Lipschutz; 1991-89-111

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dwjc/
Accession Number 1991-89-111
Object ID 18637615