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[James R. Killian, 1904-, bust portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[James R. Killian, 1904-, bust portrait, facing right] — historic photograph
[James R. Killian, 1904-, bust portrait, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [James R. Killian, 1904-, bust portrait, facing right] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[James R. Killian, 1904-, bust portrait, facing right]

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The sitter is James R. Killian, shown in a bust portrait turned to the right, and the caption card gives only his birth year, 1904, with no date for the photograph itself. Killian served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1949 to 1959, then became the first presidential science adviser under Dwight D. Eisenhower after the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. In that role he helped shape federal science policy during the early Cold War, a period when government support for research and the new space program grew rapidly.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,230 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125945

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