Exhibits
by subject:
MIT History | MIT Culture/Students
| Achievements of MIT faculty, administrators,
students, and alumni/ae | Other
_____________
MIT
History Return
to top
William Barton Rogers: MIT's Visionary Founder
The
Founding of MIT
“Objects
and Plan of an Institute of Technology,” 1860
Letter
from Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew to William Barton Rogers,
March 9, 1861
MIT
Seal, adopted 1864
Minutes
of MIT’s First Faculty Meeting, September 25, 1865
The Rogers Building, Boston, 1866-1938
Fire
Insurance Policy on MIT’s First Building, 1866-1867
The Rogers Laboratory of Physics, 1870s
MIT
at the World’s Fair, 1893
Alumni Petition Opposing MIT-Harvard Merger, 1904-05
MIT's First Ph.D.'s, 1907
A
Design for the “New Technology,” 1912
Souvenir
Program, Alumni Dedication Reunion, 1916
The
Telephone Banquet, 1916
Early
Maps of MIT, 1905, 1916, 1924
Names
on MIT Buildings around Killian Court
Blashfield Murals in Walker Memorial
Harbor View: Radar Training at MIT, 1941-1945
Building
20, 1943-1998
Project Whirlwind, 1940s & 1950s
Project Whirlwind Comes Home
The
Mid-Century Convocation at MIT, 1949
50th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Chapel and Kresge Auditorium, 1955
Letter from Andrew Wyeth to Catherine Stratton, 1960
Greetings on the Occasion of MIT's Centennial in 1961
MIT and Project Apollo: C. S. Draper's bid for space, 1961
Tech Talk Announcement of
New MIT Senior Staff — 1971
Inaugural Addresses of MIT Presidents
MIT
Culture/Students Return to top
MIT
Entrance Examination, 1869-1870
MIT Entrance Examination, 1876
Diary
of Robert Hallowell Richards, 1873
Technique
No. 1 (1885): MIT's First "Annual"
Student
Notebook of Katharine Dexter (McCormick), 1896
Tech
Show, 1899-1969
Beacon
of Progress, 1900
The
Tech, December 20, 1901
Tech
Songs, 1903
Foreword
from Technique 1907
25th Reunion of the Class of 1888 (1913)
VooDoo, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1919): Student Humor at MIT
Photograph,
Junior Varsity Crew, 1924
MIT
Field Day Program, August 28, 1943
A Whimsical Map of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1944-5
Score
for MIT's Tech Show, 1954
MIT Community Players: The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1958
Letter from Andrew Wyeth to Catherine Stratton, 1960
MIT
Dames Fashion Show Poster, 1961
Surficial
Geology Map of Quincy, Massachusetts, 1964 (thesis)
Class of 1951 (55th reunion, 2006)
Achievements of MIT faculty,
administrators, students, and alumni/ae Return
to top
Drawing
from The Log of the Dorian, 1878-1879
"Scatter Acorns That Oaks May Grow": Arthur D. Little, Inc., Founded 1886
Catalog,
Thomson Electric Welding Co., ca. 1890
Photograph,
Wachusett Dam Construction, 1898
Photograph
of Corona, Solar Eclipse, May 1900
Theodore Roosevelt's Letter to John Ripley Freeman regarding the Panama Canal, 1908
Watercolors
by Eleanor Manning O’Connor, 1912?
Ellen
H. Richards Memorial Calendar, 1913
Ellen
Swallow Richards
MIT Wind Tunnel, Photograph, ca. 1914
Jerome
Hunsaker’s NC-4 “Flying Boat,” 1919
Report:
“On the Making of Silk Purses from Sows’ Ears,”
1921
Allen
Hazen's Photograph Album, World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, October-November
1929
Cosmic Ray Observations in Eritrea: Research notes of Bruno Rossi, 1933
Illustration from Report on Van de Graaff Generator, 1933
World
War II Nighttime Aerial Reconnaissance Photograph, March 15, 1944
Advertisement:
The Suitcase House, ca. 1945
X-ray Used in MIT Linguistics Research, 1951
Sputnik, James R. Killian, and the US Response to Soviet Space Science, 1957
Telegram
from Alvar Alto, 1958
The Perceptual Form of the City: Study directed by Kevin Lynch and Gyorgy Kepes, 1954-1959
Sketch
Map of Boston, 1955: Notes from Kevin Lynch’s Image of the
City Project
Physical Science Study Committee, 1956
Sonar
Chart, 1964, from Harold Edgerton Papers
Vannevar
Bush Letter about Physics of Baseball, 1965
Photograph of Giant Squid Used in Francis O. Schmitt's Animal Nerve Cell Research, 1965
Chart from MIT-Club of Rome "Project on the Predicament of Mankind," 1972
Report:
“Francis Drake’s Brass Plate,” 1976
Photograph,
Flight of Daedalus, from Crete to Santorin, 1988
Commemorating
100 Years of Powered Flight, 2003
Other Return
to top
Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius," 1610
Balloon
Prints from the Vail Collection
MIT’s
Rare and “Special” Books
Frontispiece
of Pamphlet on Mesmerism, 1784
Charles Wheatstone's "Harmonic Diagram," 1824
Historical Patent Records from the Blatchford, Seward & Griswold Collection (1841-1910)
Wedding Trip Diary of William Barton Rogers, June 20 - August 23, 1849
Photograph by Timothy O'Sullivan, 1869: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
Stained Glass Design from the Gaffield Collection, 1885
“At the pleasure of the President,” 1908-1979
Model
of the Wright Brothers’ Airplane, 1910s
Norbert Wiener Meets Albert Einstein: Letter from Wiener to His Sister Bertha, 1925
MIT’s
Smallest Books, 1929-1930
Letter
from Mayor Curley, 1948
Letter
from Boston Mayor Kevin White to MIT President Jerome Wiesner, 1974
Photographs from Asilomar: International Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules, February 1975
Resource for Energy Research: The Peter E. Glaser Papers, 1944-2000
Engineering
Your Research: Finding Aids for Archives Collections
Theses in MIT's DSpace
William Barton Rogers: Announcing a Grant from the Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation to Preserve and Promote the Use of the Rogers Collection
|
