Vintage matte-finish 9.5 x 7.5 photo of the sharply dressed Mercury 7 astronauts admiring a model of the Mercury rocket, signed and inscribed in fountain pen in an unknown hand in the top right, “To Bob & Lois Stubbs, With best wishes and many thanks for the good weekend. The ‘Mercury Astronauts’” and signed in blue ballpoint the wide bottom border, “Alan B. Shepard, Jr.,” “Walter M. Schirra,” “John H. Glenn, Jr.,” “Virgil I. Grissom,” and “Donald K. Slayton,” and in black fountain pen, “M. Scott Carpenter,” and “Leroy G. Cooper,Jr.” Bob and Lois Stubbs were Holiday Valley's founders and then owners, who hosted the astronauts that weekend, and in appreciation were presented with this photo. In very good condition, with trimmed top and left edge, scattered silvering to darker areas of image, some scattered light creases, one through beginning of Grissom’s signature and some mild rippling to right edge. COA Scott Cornish and R&R COA.
