Six Photographs of the Tuskegee Institute Buildings and Grounds, Ca. Early 1900s
- Six photographs, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Inventory numbers and signature of Hyman, photographer, whose first name is unknow
- Tuskegee, Alabama , 1900
Tuskegee, Alabama, 1900. Six photographs, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Inventory numbers and signature of Hyman, photographer, whose first name is unknown, in negatives. Some holes, including two affecting image, paper captions stapled to margins, else near fine; generally very good or better with excellent contrast. Tuskegee University was founded in July 1881 as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers by formerly enslaved leader Lewis Adams and former Confederate Colonel and Alabama senator W.F. Foster, who had promised Adams a school for African-Americans in Macon County if Adams could secure him the black vote. Tuskegee’s first principal was Booker T. Washington, also formerly enslaved and a graduate of the Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. In 1882, Washington purchased the Miller plantation as a campus for Tuskegee.
Offered here are six photographs of the Tuskegee campus dating to the early 1900s. These mainly document the agricultural side of the Tuskegee students’ education: photographs show the cabbage patch, dairy barn, swine herd, and students plowing a field with mules. There is also a photograph of the Institute’s power plant and of “Wayside Inn,” an early dormitory that looks to be an original building of the Miller plantation. Under Washington’s leadership, students at Tuskegee were trained in teaching but also in farming and trades, and typically paid their educational expenses through agricultural and other labor on campus.
Offered here are six photographs of the Tuskegee campus dating to the early 1900s. These mainly document the agricultural side of the Tuskegee students’ education: photographs show the cabbage patch, dairy barn, swine herd, and students plowing a field with mules. There is also a photograph of the Institute’s power plant and of “Wayside Inn,” an early dormitory that looks to be an original building of the Miller plantation. Under Washington’s leadership, students at Tuskegee were trained in teaching but also in farming and trades, and typically paid their educational expenses through agricultural and other labor on campus.