Custom carving featuring design of Kircher's Enigma, Chemistry Building, Rice University

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Date

1925

Abstract

This slide is a part of the "A Walking Tour of Rice University" slide presentation. The original glass plate negatives were given to James C. Morehead, Jr. by William Ward Watkin for use in Morehead's construction class. The glass slides generally show the construction of several buildings at Rice, including Lovett Hall, the physics building, the mechanical laboratory, power house, the chemistry building, and the football stadium.

Description

Stone carving of Kircher's Enigma, located in Keck Hall at Rice Institute. Original resource is a color 35 mm slide.

Citation

"Custom carving featuring design of Kircher's Enigma, Chemistry Building, Rice University." (1925) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71035.

Keyword

Places; William M. Rice Institute. Keck Hall; Chemistry--Miscellanea--Texas--Houston; Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680; Rice University--History

Publisher

Rice University

Citable link to this page

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71035

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