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Drawing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposed Back Bay Boston campus, end papers in the Committee on Finance Report prepared by Edward S. Tobey, 1863

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The chemical laboratory for women at MIT was torn down in 1883

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Before moving to Cambridge, MIT was located in Boston’s Back Bay, with the Rogers Building on the block bounded by Berkeley, Boylston, Clarendon, and Newbury Streets.

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Rogers Building, ca. 1901

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Boston, Massachusetts, 1905

_{Image: Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, Volume 41. Number 1. Catalogue of the Officers and Students with a Statement of the Requirements for Admission and a Description of the Courses of Instruction. December 1905. AC0598, 1906. Institute Archives and Special Collections, MIT Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts.}

Memorial Drive looking West, c. 1900

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Memorial Drive looking East, c. 1900

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An illustration of John Ripley Freeman's plan for MIT's Cambridge campus, as seen from the Harvard Bridge, 1912. Read more 

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