This photograph album was created by William I. Baucus (RPI Class of 1887) and highlights engineering work sites in Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico as part of Baucus’s work, responsi...
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CreativeWorkSeries
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This digital collection comprises select items from the Joseph P. Davis papers (MC 26) which document the professional activities of Davis, a civil engineer hired by the Peruvian government to conduct...
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Collection
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In this letter to his friend, German chemist Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Harteck writes about the work he's been doing at the Hansischen University in Hamburg, Germany. The letter details the work...
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Page
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This letter was written to Paul Harteck, from the German Consulate General, based in New York City, regarding Harteck's request for a new German passport. The consulate requests additional information...
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Page
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This certificate was given to Paul Harteck on December 9th, 1958, by the Argonne National Laboratory. Harteck operated the Argonaut Reactor, which was used by Argonne's International School of Nuclear...
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Page
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Select photographs from the Horsford Family papers which comprises a collection of papers created by various members of the Horsford, Gardiner, and L’Hommedieu families spanning more than two centurie...
Select photographs from the Othniel Foster Nichols papers with particular emphasis on photos related to the design and construction of the Williamsburg (New East River) and Manhattan Bridges.
A vast collection of photographs from the Archives that document student life, campus activities and scenes, buildings and their histories, classes and reunions, and various subjects related to scienc...
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Collection
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Select photographs and drawings from the Roebling collection dating from approximately 1844 to the early 1900s, the period of time when John A. Roebling and Washington A. Roebling was active in the de...
Select drawings, studies, and a small sampling of photographs that provide a fascinating glimpse of Marsh's artistic work. The Marsh collection was donated to RPI by the Hiland G. Batcheller Memorial ...
This heavily illustrated history of RPI builds on previously published accounts, updating the story of Rensselaer programs and leadership into the 1990s.
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Book
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Written by the Director of the Institute, this booklet examines the original intent of the school and proposes a reorganization in order to become a true polytechnic institute. While the author's pla...
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President John F. Kennedy is photographed looking at the Gemini I capsule. George Low, NASA Administrator, Senator George Smathers, James Webb, NASA Administrator, J. Gordon Cooper, Project Mercury as...
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Photograph
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Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), and George Low, NASA Administrator, standing in front of the retrieved Apollo IV Command Module.
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