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-00000063
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. Stamp on verso reads "M.I.T. Historical Collections, received from Mrs. K.T. Compton, date Nov.1975".

Original Caption: "Dr. Compton is host to three members of the Class of 1911 on October 19, 1945 at the occasion of General Kenney's visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From left to right are O. B. Dennison, Secretary of the Class of 1911, General George C. Kenney, '11, Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and L. Gordon Glazier, '11, a brother-in-law of General Kenney."