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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's House, Weimar,Germany; photocrom print published between 1890-1900.
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. August 28th 1963
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Born May 16, 1901 • Frankfurt an der Oder • Germany
Died November 25, 1980 (aged 79) • Los Angeles • California
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Chicago Stock Exchange designed by Dankmar Adler, 1897, demolished 1972
Dankmar Adler
American architect
Prouvé, Jean: prefabricated gas station
Jean Prouvé
French engineer
Charles Sumner Greene
American architect
Henry Mather Greene
American architect
lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen; Mead, William Rutherford; White, Stanford
Stanford White
American architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
James Bogardus
American inventor
McIntire, Samuel: Derby Summer House
Samuel McIntire
American architect and craftsman
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Helmut Jahn: Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect
Albert Kahn
American architect
John Henry Belter
American cabinetmaker
Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Impington Village College
Maxwell Fry
British architect
Jones, Owen: The Grammar of Ornament
Owen Jones
British architect, designer, and artist

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