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Historical: Event: NIH: Building 6 Cornerstone Laying
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Title: | Historical: Event: NIH: Building 6 Cornerstone Laying |
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Description: | Secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau wields the trowel during the cornerstone laying for NCI's building 6 on June 24, 1939. Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land for the building, and Dr. Thomas Parron, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, look on. The PHS was then a part of the Treasury Department. See also ar000175. |
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Topics/Categories: | Historical -- Event |
Type: | Black & White Slide |
Source: | National Cancer Institute |
Author: | Unknown photographer/artist |
AV Number: | AV-3906-3206 |
Date Created: | June 1939 |
Date Added: | 1/1/2001 |
Reuse Restrictions: | No - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and/or author listed above. |