Earl Dorfman, managing director of the National Historical Wax Museum, presenting a model of astronaut Alan Shepard’s head to Philip Hopkins, the director of the National Air Museum, Washington DC, September 15, 1961 [835×697]

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1. PerryPattySusiana

   I’m sure the intention was noble; & if I were Hopkins there I would receive it perfectly graciously: but I find it really macabre, that!