John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professor of Economics, with his wife in the Library of their Cambridge, MA, home tonight following announcement by President Kennedy that he was chosen to be Ambassador to India. Galbraith, born in Ontario, Canada, served during World War II as a deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration and as a Director of the U.S. Strategic Bombing survey. Presently Galbraith is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.