black-and-white photographs

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Beaumert H. Whitton collections consists of photographs and a diary by Whitton of a trip taken with other Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from Boston to Minneapolis, Birmingham, Ala., and back to Boston during which they visited manufacturing plants and military facilities. This trip occured from June 13, 1932 to July 24, 1932, covered 5,500 miles, 23 states in the United States, and visits to 30 plants. Site visits are described in the diary, and photographs complement...

Abstract This collection was largely assembled by Robert Voss, who sold the collection to Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Peterson continued to add to the collection prior to donating it to MIT. The collection presents a general view of the history, use, and technology of the telegraph, and includes telegrams, photographs of telegraph workers and military use of the technology, records from telegraph companies, and a wide variety of ephemera and realia. The majority of the collection dates from the...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection contains photographs taken between April 1997 and March 1998 documenting the final days of MIT’s Building 20. No attempt was made to photograph every room, architectural feature, or denizen of Building 20. However, a conscientious effort to record a representative sample was made. Included are views of hallways, staircases, window frames, window boxes, beams, plumbing, wiring, unusual space modifications, offices, labs, classrooms, clubs, murals, and graffiti. Exterior views...