Year: 1968
Material: Vintage chromogenic print
Signature: Nasa number AS8-16.2593 on the recto, small caption on the verso
Frame: Yes
Total size including frame: 41 x 36 cm 
Image size: 24 x 18 cm
Condition: Very good

Vintage NASA prints were processed by NASA’s photographic laboratories shortly after the date of the scene depicted for the use of NASA’s own scientists and public relations department. NASA destroyed many of these original prints as they were archived on the internet, and true vintage prints of pictures taken by astronaut-photographers are subsequently hard to find, especially in good conditions.

[NASA description] William Anders and his crewmates James Lovell and Frank Borman became the first humans to see the Earth as a planet. “To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold – brothers who know how they are truly brothers” Achibald McLeish, The New York Times, December 25, 1968. The photograph was on the cover of Life Magazine, January 10th, 1969.