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Group portrait of Franklin Institute Medal Day recipients : The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., Medal Day, Wednesday, May 17, 1939

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Group portrait of Franklin Institute Medal recipients, including Edwin Powell Hubble, Franklin Institute Medal Day. The sixteen (16) men pictured are in two rows of eight, one row seated and one row standing behind the first row. The men are identified in a key mounted on the back of the photograph. The key is transcribed as follows: The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., Medal Day, Wednesday, May 17, 1939. Standing - left to right: Mr. E. Burke Wilford, President Pennsylvania Aircraft Syndicate, Phila. (Certificate of Merit) ; Professor Kalman John DeJuhasz (Levy Medalist) Associate Professor of Engineering Research Pennsylvania State College ; Dr. George Ashley Campbell (Cresson Medalist) American Telephone and Telegraph Co. ; Mr. Philip C. Staples, President, The Franklin Institute ; Dr. John R. Carson (Cresson Medalist), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. N.Y.C. ; Mr. M.W. Clement, President Pennsylvania Railroad, Received Henderson Medal for Ralph Budd, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., Chicago, Ill. ; Mr. Frederick Watson - British Consul General, Received Cresson Medal for Sir Charles Vernon Boys, F.R.S., LL.D., London, England ; Dr. John Strong (Longstreth Medalist), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California ; Seated - left to right: Dr. Percy Russell, Wilmington, Delaware (Certificate of Merit) ; Dr. Robley Cook Williams, University of Michigan (Longstreth Medalist), Ann Arbor, Michigan ; Dr. H. Jermain Creighton (Potts Medalist), Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania ; Dr. Newcomb K. Chaney (Potts Medalist), United Gas Improvement Company ; Dr. Edwin Hubble (Franklin Medalist), Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California ; Mr. William A. Hyde (Wetherill Medalist), Leon J. Barrett Co., Worcester, Massachusetts ; Dr. Arthur C. Hardy (Longstreth Medalist), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Dr. Jesse E. Stareck (Longstreth Medalist), United Chromium, Inc., Waterbury, Connecticut.
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Date
1939 May 17
Call number
mssHUB 1061 (2)
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