VTG BPI Baltimore Polytechnic Institute 1953 Class of Engineers Yearbook

BPI Baltimore Polytechnic Institute 1953 Class of Engineers Yearbook Leather bound, lots of old advertisings BPI had an unusually advanced and difficult college engineering "A" preparatory curriculum which included calculus, analytical chemistry, electricity, mechanics and surveying BPI was founded in 1883, after Joshua Plaskitt petitioned the Baltimore City authorities to establish a school for instruction in engineering. The original school was named the Baltimore Manual Training School , and its first class was made up of about sixty students, all of whom were male. The official name of the school was changed in the 1890s to the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The first principals were Dr. Richard Grady, Lt. John D. Ford , and Lieutenant William King, after whom King Memorial Hall is named. The first building was located on the former site of the old central City Spring on Courtland Street just north of East Saratoga Street of which the area was later contained in Baltimore's first "urban renewal" plan with the tearing down of several blocks of houses along Courtland and Saint Paul Streets to the west and the construction of Preston Gardens and Saint Paul Place from Lexington Street to Centre Street in the north in 1923. About 180 pages Very Good Vintage Condition, Pages intact, no writings, wear on covers, corners & ends