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HMRC Thursday: Inside Abercrombie, 1948

Just this afternoon I found these beautiful images of students at work inside the newly completed Abercrombie Lab. There are two, obviously taken in two different rooms:

(Both images can be found at MSS 1459 CM 49 Wood Allen Collection.)

I’ve been trying to figure out their exact locations but I’ve discovered that my near total ignorance of the machines they’re using has made this impossible because I’m not sure what lab they belong in. All I can say is that based on the windows they have to be somewhere on the back side of the building. I know some of you enjoy this sort of thing so here are the plans for the first floor if you’d like to give it a go yourself. Good luck!

And as long as you’re working on this for me any information about the machinery would also be greatly appreciated.

Bonus: If you look closely you can see how the current men’s and women’s bathrooms were carved out of large locker rooms on this floor.

Extra Bonus: There is so much Abercrombie material I may have to do this quarterly.

 

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