Photo 1 - Land prior to the building of the Bureau. A corner of Green Mountain Cemetery is visible at right.
Photo 2 - Land, looking to the southwest.
Photo 3 - Chamber of Commerce President, Francis Reich (l), and Senator Ed Johnson (r) exchanging "Promissory Notes". A victory breakfast to celebrate successful fundraising was held on 20 April 1950.
Photo 4 - Key men in the fundraising campaign (l-r): Lu R. Monroe, Francis Reich, Vergyl Reynolds, James Yeager, and Harlon Persons.
Photo 5 - The fundraisers (l-r): Francis Reich, Robert Stearns, Lu Monroe, Elmore Petersen, Senator Johnson, Vergyl Reynolds, James Yeager, Dudley Hutchinson, and Harlon Persons.
Photo 6 - (l-r): Vergyl Reynolds, Dr. Donald Menzel, Dr. Edward G. Condon (Director of the Bureau of Standards), and Dr. Walter O. Roberts.
Photo 7 - Stearns-Roger shovel waiting to begin excavation. May 8, 1951.
Photo 8 - (l-r): David Persons, Mayor J. Perry Bartlett, Chamber of Commerce President Frank S. Henderson, Merrill Rosengren, and Robert W. Ackerlow (last two men with Stearns-Rogers Mfg. Co.).
Photo 9 - (l-r): Gene Lambert, James Yeager, Frank Henderson, J. Perry Bartlett, and David Persons.
Photo 10 - Frank Henderson speaking to the crowd.
Photo 11 - Faded color photo of the participants in the ground-breaking ceremony. Identifications were written on the back of the photograph.
Photo 12 - Architectural rendering which was printed in the Camera on 12 March 1952.
Photo 13 - Ceremony in honor of the Bureau of Standards on 21 July 1952. Identifications were written on the back of the photograph.
Photos 14 through 23 - Similar views to those above.