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Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story

by ssds2017 | Jul 27, 2021

<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Invitation for film screening</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Young Peter Cooper working on an early invention</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Actor Paolo Federico-O’Murchu with Director of Photography Kevin Cloutier</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Peter Cooper purchased a glue factory in 1821, and within two years he developed new ways to produce glues, cements, and gelatin. A cough syrup manufacturer bought his patent for gelatin, rebranding it as Jell-O</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Peter Cooper, portraid by Scott Klavan, on the Tom Thumb steam locomotive</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Director of Photography Kevin Cloutier films Peter Cooper re-enactor Scott Klavan aboard the Tom Thumb steam locomotive under the guidance of Director Janet Gardner. Photo by Dennis Townes</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Janet Gardner directs re-enactor Victoria Haynes (Amelia Cooper Hewitt) in a scene from “Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story”</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady taken only hours before his famous speech at Cooper Union’s Great Hall on February 27, 1860. Photo courtesy Library of Congress</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Contemporary print showing Abraham Lincoln in Cooper Union’s Great Hall on February 27, 1860, delivering his speech which ended with, “Let us have faith that might makes right...” Artist unidentified</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Cooper Union as photographed in the later part of the 19th centry, when they introduced the plan for a night school with a library. Cooper declared tuition to be “free as air and water.”</span>
<span style="color: #000000 !important;font-size: 14pt">Promotional poster for film screenings</span>

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