Edwin Howland Blashfield mural, Walker Memorial, detail

Object summary

Title: Edwin Howland Blashfield mural, Walker Memorial, detail
Object ID: GCP-00002289
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT, Building 50
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Photograph of a section of a mural painted by Edwin Blashfield. The mural depicts six robed and haloed adult figures, with two cherubs in the bottom right corner. The haloes of the adult figures are labeled with the names of courses at MIT. Clockwise from the top, the haloes read: Electricity, Physics, Metallurgy, Chemistry, Engineering, History.