Description

Mary Helen Werner works in a corner of the biology lab in Building 57. A large glass vial is featured in the front of the image.

Original captions: "Biology Lab assistant in "cold room" in Whittaker Bldg.", "From the Office of Public Relations Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, For A.M. Newspapers of Sunday, November 28, 1965 // Twenty-two controlled environment rooms are included in the new $5,800,000 Uncas A. and Helen F. Whitaker Building for the Center for Life Sciences which will be dedicated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 3 p.m. Friday (Dec. 3) in Kresge Auditorium. Mary Werner, technical assistant in the Department of Biology, is shown working in one such room --a cold room-- in which the temperature is kept at four degrees Centigrade. The building, designed by Anderson, Bechwith and Haible, provides 134,000 gross square feet of additional space for the Department of Biology and the Department of Nutrition and Food Science.", Original credit line: "M.I.T. Photo"