The Thinking Machine

The Thinking MachineCould you beat the world chess master in one try if you'd never played or studied the game? Or plot and execute a successful escape from an inescapable prison cell? And could you do it at the turn of the twentieth century, without benefit of modern technology? Sound impossible? Never use that word in the presence of The Thinking Machineit angers him greatly and does not give him a favorable impression of the user. Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen

and journalists and profiteers

Declaration of Independence and the Civil Rights Act

Housed in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Together with two thousand other refugees

Tax gives us a rich narrative of women workers’ struggles

" demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman

paper prints

Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s

This glass decoration is evocative of the Minerva mosaic by Elihu Vedder that resides in our Great Hall

and not only celebrates the artistic and technical merit of Wood's photos

Item number 21108567