Karl Taylor Compton and military officials at laboratory tour, 1945

Object summary

Title: Karl Taylor Compton and military officials at laboratory tour, 1945
Object ID: GCP-00000062
Date made: 1945-10-19
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, 3-208
Maker: MIT Photo Service
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Orville B. Denison, George Churchill Kenney, Karl Taylor Compton and Leslie Gordon Glazier gather in the President's office before touring laboratories. Technology Review, December 1945, p. 110. Original Credit Line: M.I.T. Photo.

Original Caption: "Boston's home-coming celebration for General George C. Kenney, '11, included a visit to some of the Technology laboratories where much of the newer developments in miliatary equipment were originated and perfected. Shown in the usual left-to-right order in Dr. Compton's office before the tour of the laboratories are Orville B. Denison, Secretary of the Class of 1911, General Kenney, President Compton, and Leslie G. Glazier, '11 brother-in-law of General Kenney. General Kenney is the first of the prominent military Alumni to be welcomed back to the Institute."