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Karl Taylor Compton and others at groundbreaking ceremony for Building 16, 1950

Object summary

Title
Karl Taylor Compton and others at groundbreaking ceremony for Building 16, 1950
Object ID
GCP-00000037
Date made
1950-11-15
Place made

United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building 16

Object type
Photograph
Major collection
MIT History
Named collection
Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view
No
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Description

Karl Taylor Compton speaks at the groundbreaking of Building 16, the John Thompson Dorrance Laboratory. James Rhyne Killian and an unidentified man sit left. Oliver G. Willits, and Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance sit right. Original caption: "Ded. Dorrance Lab Nov 15, 1950".

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