Yerkes Photo Gallery

Welcome to the Yerkes Research Center's historical photo gallery. Below are images dating to 1965 when the Yerkes Research Center moved from its original location in Orange Park, Florida, to Emory University in Atlanta. Prior permission must be obtained before using these images for purposes beyond this Web site. For more information, please contact Yerkes Public Affairs at 404-727-7732 or yerkes-info@rmy.emory.edu.


Founder Robert Mearns Yerkes, PhD

Former Director Geoffrey Bourne, PhD, in a Yerkes lab

Former Director Frederick King, PhD, receiving two scientific awards

Main center groundbreaking, 1965

Original main center building

Yerkes laboratory in the late 1960s

Yerkes main center in the 1970s

Yerkes' electron microscope

Yerkes field station, 1965