Karl Taylor Compton at meeting in building 50, 1948

Object summary

Title: Karl Taylor Compton at meeting in building 50, 1948
Object ID: GCP-00000059
Date made: 1948-02-07
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building 50
Maker: Fay Foto Service, Inc.
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Karl Taylor Compton speaks to Alumni at the Midwinter Metropolitan Boston Meeting in Walker Memorial. Used in: Technology Review, April 1948, p. 326. Original Credit Line: Fay Foto Service, Inc., F 9347-10.

Original Caption: "President Compton relates recent progress at the Institute to Alumni attending the Midwinter Metropolitan Boston Meeting on February 7. The large map was used in conjunction with telephone messages to various parts of the world over radio links (see The Review, March, 1948, page 272). At the corner of the platform is the portrait of Dr. James L. Tryon, formerly Director of Admissions at M.I.T., which was painted by and presented to the Institute by Mrs. Tryon."