James Rhyne Killian and others at groundbreaking ceremony for Building 16, 1950

Object summary

Title: James Rhyne Killian and others at groundbreaking ceremony for Building 16, 1950
Object ID: GCP-00000038
Date made: 1950-11-15
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building 16
Maker: MIT Photo Service
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

James Rhyne Killian speaks at a podium during the ground breaking ceremony for Building 16, the John Thompson Dorrance Laboratory. Karl Taylor Compton, Oliver G. Willits and Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance sit right. Design plans and artist renderings of the building are displayed behind them. Used in: Technology Review, January 1951, p. 154; Research Reports, December 1950. Original credit line: MIT Photo Service.