Image caption on page 66 of the book US National Library of Medicine: "Dignitaries and guests gather on the warm and sunny afternoon of June 12, 1959, to witness the ground-breaking for the new National Library of Medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. It was only a few years earlier that legislation proposed the transfer of the library, then known as the Armed Forces Medical Library, to the US Public Health Service and the renaming of it the 'National Library of Medicine.' President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law on August 3, 1956, paving the way for the ground breaking in 1959 and the dedication of the new library building two years later, on December 14, 1961."
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