Cooper Union
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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859
The Cooper Union's Foundation Building at Cooper Square and Astor Place in 2019
The interior of the Great Hall, c. 2005
Cooper Union in 1876
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln February 27, 1860, the day of his famous Cooper Union speech in New York
Peter Cooper
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Peter Cooper was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, founded the Cooper Union for the Advance
Cooper Union
…Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France. The school was built on a radical new model…
Cooper, c. 1870s
Caricature of Peter Cooper by Thomas Nast, depicting Cooper as a cooper.
Steel rocking chair designed by Peter Cooper in the 1830s
1879 Puck cartoon shows Cooper spanking his son Mayor Edward Cooper.