The first American flag standing on the Moon, 16-24 July 1969

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS 11-40-5905" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

This photograph of the US flag taken on Apollo 11 (a frame from the panoramic sequence shot by Buzz Aldrin from the position north of the LM) was surprisingly not in the selection release for publication by NASA’s Public Affairs Office immediately after the mission and doesn’t appear in newspapers or magazines of the time.

Armstrong’s shadow is visible between the shadow of the Solar Wind Collector in the foreground and the shadow of the LM in the background.

“The pictures were of such clarity and startling starkness. I thought ‘Not only did we do this, but we brought back amazing documentation’. These weren’t grainy B&W photos. You could see every rivet, every fold in the flag.”
Michael Collins (Jacobs, pg. 15)

From the mission transcript during the lunar phone call with President Nixon:
110:17:44 Neil Armstrong: It’s a great honor and privilege for us to be here, representing
not only the United States, but men of peace of all nations. Men with interest and vision
for the future. Men with interest and vision for the future.

Literature:
Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, pg. 58.