Science Service radio broadcast, December 1941
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Creator: Davis, Watson 1896-1967
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1941
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0012
Standing at back (left to right): English naturalist Major Leonard Darwin (1850-1943) and Vannevar Bush (1890-1974), head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Seated (left to right): Harlow Shapley (1885-1972), director of the Harvard College Observatory; U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace; and Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952), zoologist and executive officer of the American Philosophical Society. The men were participating in a radio broadcast in December 1941 for the dedication of the new Science Service headqaurters.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0012
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1941
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0012]
Gelatin silver prints