File:NIH building 6 groundbreaking.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file(2,322 × 1,800 pixels, file size: 1.06 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English:
Title NIH Building 6 Groundbreaking
Description Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH.
Topics/Categories Historical, Events
Type B&W, Photo
Source National Cancer Institute
Date
Source
This image was released by the National Cancer Institute, an agency part of the National Institutes of Health, with the ID 1875 (image) (next).

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.


Deutsch | English | français | македонски | +/−

Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Reuse Restrictions None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and/or author listed above.

Licensing

Public domain This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
Please ensure that this image was actually created by the US Federal government. The NIH frequently uses commercial images which are not public domain.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

June 1938

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:12, 21 January 2013Thumbnail for version as of 18:12, 21 January 20132,322 × 1,800 (1.06 MB){{Information |Description = {{en|<br> :'''Title''' NIH Building 6 Groundbreaking :'''Description''' Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI&#39s building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Franci...
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata