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English: 1870. Image of Peter Cooper printed in an informational booklet about the Cooper Union. Three granddaughters of Peter Cooper established the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in 1896. Its parent organization, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, was founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper as a free school for the working classes of New York City. The Museum was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1968 and was renamed the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design.
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