![Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th ]Century (photo by E.L. Allen, left/right inverted).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/561446cce4b094b629347f8d/1548450436565-Q5EP7YY77QZY83EE4E3V/440px-MIT_Boston_19th_c_byEdward_L_Allen_BPL_2351553844_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th ]Century (photo by E.L. Allen, left/right inverted).
“I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.”
― Matthew Pearl, in the novel The Technologists, set in 19th Century Greater Boston and involving the early days of MIT.
