Decorative Image: Cornerstone laying for NCI’s building 6 on June 24, 1939.

Shown: Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land

Dr. Thomas Parton, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service & Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury (Holding trowel) June 24, 1939. Cornerstone laying for NCI’s building 6.