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Samuel Wesley Stratton and Karl Taylor Compton lay ceremonial cornerstone for Building 6, George Eastman Research Laboratories.

Original caption: "Samuel Stratton, the Chairman, stood by as President Compton spread mortar on the cornerstone of the Eastman Building. Two days later, October 18 1931, he died from a heart attach while giving a statement to a reporter from The Tech on Thomas Edison, an old friend, who had died earlier that day/"