Photographs of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee Institute.
Date: 1906
Photographer: Frances B. Johnston

Top photo: At center of the photograph is a reviewing stand on which supporters of the University, including Trustees, dignitaries, educators, and philanthropists, are gathered to watch the proceedings. The reviewing stand is decorated with American flags and bunting. In the foreground, female Tuskegee students march past the reviewing stand, from proper right to proper left. The women are wearing full-length, long-sleeved dresses and hats. In the background are campus buildings, rolling hills and fences.

Bottom photo: Reviewing Stand with supporters of the university - Words on bottom of photograph: 1906, the Tuskegee Institute celebrated it's 25th anniversary. In the group above appear such well-known American characters as Dr. William J. Schieffelin, New York; Dr. H. B. Frissell, Hampton Institute, Va.; J. G. Phelps Stokes, philanthropist, New York; Isaac N. Seligman, banker, New Your; Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook; Dr. Wallace Buttrick, secretary General Education Board; William G. Wilcox, now President of the New York Board of Education; Robert C. Ogden, philanthropist, New York; Andrew Carnegie, and Miss Clara Spence of the Spence School, and their friends.

Source: NYPL / National Museum of African American History and Culture / LOC