opened in 1971. The campus in Providence where Tupper had once studied was sold to Brown University. Death Tupper died in Costa Rica on October 5, 1983, at the age of 76. References External links Earl S. Tupper Papers, ca. 1914–82 Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution 1907 births 1983 deaths People from Berlin, New Hampshire Bryant University alumni DuPont people American expatriates in Costa Rica 20th-century American inventors