James Rhyne Killian and others at Building 35 groundbreaking, 1950

Object summary

Title: James Rhyne Killian and others at Building 35 groundbreaking, 1950
Object ID: GCP-00013790
Date made: 1950-08-18
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MIT
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Group photograph of five men with an excavator at a groundbreaking ceremony on MIT campus. Standing on the ground, left to right, are John Chipman, Robert C. Dean, and James Holt. James Rhyne Killian sits in the cab of the excavator and John Wulff stands on the running board.

Original caption: "President Killian manned the controls of a shovel for the groundbreaking ceremony when the Sloan Metals Processing Laboratory was started in 1950. At his right is John Wulff, director of the laboratory. On the ground, left to right, are John Chipman, head of the Department of Metallurgy; Robert C. Dean, '26, architect, and James Holt, '19, executive officer of the Department of Mechanical Engineering."