Karl Taylor Compton and others at new telephone service celebration, 1952

Object summary

Title: Karl Taylor Compton and others at new telephone service celebration, 1952
Object ID: GCP-00000049
Date made: 1952-01-26
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Vail Library
Maker: MIT Photo Service
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Karl Taylor Compton, Joseph E. Harrell, Harold Locke Hazen, Erskine N. White, and Thomas M. Hennessey stand beneath a portrait of Theodore Newton Vail. Technology Review, March 1952, p. 251.

Original Caption: "Below: Gathered under the portrait of Theodore N. Vail, former president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, for who the Institute's library of electrical engineering is named, Professor Harold L. Hazen, '24, Head of the Department of Electical Engineering (center), recalls the important role which the Vail Library has played in training communications engineers. Others in the group, in usual reading order, are: Dr. Compton, Mr. Harrell, and Erskine N. White and Thomas M. Hennessey, Vice-presidents of New England Telephone and Telegraph Company."