IBM ASCC-Mark I photo album: delegates at the Mark I dedication ceremony
Date: 1944
Inventory Number: Lib.1964-107
Classification: Photograph
DescriptionThis photograph is included among 117 photos in an album of 109 pages. The images portray the assembly of the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Mark I) computer in the Cruft Laboratory of Harvard University's Physics Department and the ceremony in August 1944 in which it was dedicated.
Details of the people and activities in each photograph are given in separate entries from Lib.1964-001 to Lib.1964-109. Inventory record numbers with "a" and "b" attached refer to pairs of images originally glued to a single page of the album.
This photograph shows:
individuals are listed as follows on the back of the photograph:
Left to Right:
1st. row -
Charles A. Kirk, Vice President in charge of Manufacturing, Endicott, N.Y.
Howard H. Aiken, S. B.; Ph.D., Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Graduate School of Engineering; Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve
F. W. Nichol, Vice President and General Manager, IBM, N.Y.
Dr. James B. Conant, President, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Clair Lake, IBM Engineer, Endicott, N.Y.
Dr. Harold M. Westergaard, B.S.; Ph.D. Professor of Civil Engineering, and Dean of Graduate School of Engineering; Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve.
2nd. row -
R.H. Austin, Special Representative for IBM Sales Division No. 2, Cincinnati, Ohio.
W. W. McDowell, Manager of Engineering, Endicott.
J.C. McPherson, IBM Director of Engineering, N.Y.
Harry Rowe Mimno, E.E., A.M.; Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics and Communication Engineering, Harvard University; Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering '36 - '37
Harlow Shapely, A. B. A. M. LL. D. Ph.D. S.D.; Litt.D.; Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory.
Frank Hamilton, IBM Engineer, Endicott, N.Y.
Percy Williams Bridgman, A.B.; A.M., Ph.D. S. D., Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University.
Benjamin M. Durffee, IBM Engineer Laboratories, Endicott.
Edwin C. Kemble, S.B., Sc.D., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Department of Physics, Harvard University.
Emory Leon Chaffee, B.S., A.M., Ph.D., Rumford Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics and of Communication Engineering; Director of Cruft Laboratory.
John C. Baker, Professor and Associate Dean of Harvard University.
Theodore H. Brown, Professor, School of Business Administration, Harvard University.
E. M. Douglas, IBM Director of Sales Promotion, N.Y.
D. Piatt, IBM Assistant Engineer, IBM Engineering and Research Laboratories, Endicott.
D. Orton, IBM Director of Education, Endicott.
This photograph was likely taken in affiliation with the dedication ceremony for the Mark I. However, those shown are wearing different clothing than in other dedication ceremony photographs. The even may have spanned more than one day.