Karl Taylor Compton and others at groundbreaking ceremony for building E2, 1947

Object summary

Title: Karl Taylor Compton and others at groundbreaking ceremony for building E2, 1947
Object ID: GCP-00000032
Date made: 1947-10-06
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building W7
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Donald F. Carpenter, Raymond H. Blanchard, George K. Parmelee and Karl Taylor Compton break ground for a new dormitory. Technology Review, Dec. 1947, p. 105.

Original Caption: "Donald F. Carpenter, '22, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Student Activity, Raymond H. Blanchard, '17, President of the Alumni Association, and George K. Parmelee, '48, President of the Institute Committee, watch President Compton break ground for the new Senior House now being built along Memorial Drive on Insitute property west of Massachusetts Avenue."

Original Caption: "Miss Green Dept. of Architecture has negative".