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Manhattan Project Autographs Sold at Auction
The Manhattan Project was the American research and development of the first atomic bomb during WWII. Many felt Americans needed to study this field after news emerged that German scientists learned how to cleave a uranium atom and grew concerned that Nazi’s would create weapons with this new technology. President Roosevelt agreed to this and in 1941 the Manhattan project was formed. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer led the project and scientists Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe and Ernest O. Lawrence were also involved.
We sold a document with the Manhattan Project autographs for $3,800 at auction. Please see lot details below.
Manhattan Project Signatures of All Five Scientists Who Worked on the Atomic Bomb Including Enrico Fermi & Robert Oppenheimer — Rare Signatures on Official Los Alamos Stationery With Secret P.O. Box Address
Typed letter signed by Manhattan Project Director Norris Bradbury, who encloses the signatures of the “five scientists associated with the Atomic Bomb Project.” On a separate sheet are the promised signatures, written boldly by all: “J.R. Oppenheimer”, “Samuel K. Allison”, “E. Fermi”, “N.E. Bradbury” and “G.B. Kistiakowsky”. Letter dated 2 November 1945 is on official “P.O. Box 1663 / Santa Fe, New Mexico” stationery, the secret P.O. Box address used for the project whose physical location was undisclosed. Also includes original mailing envelope postmarked 7 November 1945. Document, measuring 8.5″ x 11″ has some folding from mailing, else near fine. Sold for $3,800.
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We also sold the following items:
”Atomic Energy for Military Purposes”, signed in 1946 during the Manhattan Project by six of the most important individuals who developed this first atomic bomb, including Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. Book is the official report of the Manhattan Project, signed on the half-title page by Enrico Fermi, Samuel K. Allison, George B. Kistiakowsky, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, and Robert Oppenheimer. Signatures were acquired by another Manhattan Project scientist, Laurence Cherry, who designed the detonation system for the Fat Man bomb. Hardbound book measures 5.75” x 8”. Some light wear and spotting to boards. Mr. Cherry’s stamp appears on page edges and also on front free endpaper, along with his address and notation that the book was purchased in 1946 at Los Alamos. Very good condition. Sold for $5,000.
Albert Einstein typed letter signed during World War II, with moving content regarding helping Jewish refugees. Dated 10 June 1939 on his personal embossed letterhead from Princeton, Einstein writes to Miss A.E. Botthof, who worked on ”behalf of the refugees during Dedication Week.” Einstein continues, ”…The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years has been based to a large extent on traditions of mutual helpfulness. In these years of affliction our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test. May we stand this test as well as did our fathers before us. We have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause. It must be a source of deep gratification to you to be making so important a contribution toward rescuing our persecuted fellow-Jews from their calamitous peril and leading them toward a better future…[signed] A. Einstein”. Single page letter measures 8.5” x 11”. Folds and mild creasing, in near fine condition. With Einstein’s original mailing envelope postmarked 12 June 1939. Also with COAs from PSA/DNA and Beckett, with Einstein’s signature graded a perfect 10 by Beckett. Sold for $15,000.
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