History of the Marine Biological Laboratory

The Rock-Bound Coast: Buzzard Bay Shore near Woods Holl, Mass

Rocky Coast

View of Quissett Harbor from the South

Quissett Harbor view

View of Quissett Harbor from the South

Quissett Harbor view

Capt. Grinnell House Woods Holl

Captain Grinnell House

Mrs. Grinnell's Cat

Mrs Grinnell's Cat

View along Road To Falmouth from Woods Holl to Falmouth

View of road with stone walls

Fields North East of Woods Holl Mass: at night on road to Quissett

Fields

Residence of Mrs. Sheehan: Woods Holl

Mrs. Sheehan

Welch Family Group: Woods Hole

Welch Family

Nobska Point:near Woods Holl Mass

Nobska Lighthouse (Mass.)

Marine Biological Laboratory:Woods Holl Mass

First Laboratory Building

Marine Biological Laboratory: Woods Holl Mass Interior View

Interior View of working laboratory

Little Harbor Woods Holl Mass: Government Light Ships

Little Harbor with lights ships and undeveloped Juniper Point

H.V Conair in Boat:Dock of United States Fish Commission

H.V Conair in rowing boat August 1890

The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 1935

1 black and white video; sound (musical accompaniment only); reformatted digital

By the 1930s, the MBL had become "the" place to go during the summer for biological research and training. Luminaries such as Frank Lillie, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Edwin Grant Conklin, and Thomas Hunt Morgan took their students, packed up their families and research labs, and headed to the MBL. They worked in labs, ate together in the Mess, and they often lived in the limited on-campus housing. Life at the MBL was a life where fun, family, and science intertwined. This film, taken in 1935 by B. R. Coonfield of Brooklyn College, captures snippets of life at the MBL.