Southern University and A & M College--Students; Sewing--Study and teaching
Sewing class
The girls' industrial department, was instituted in 1885. Sewing was mandatory for girls; and those desiring did painting, embroidery, and ornamental work. Many girls made various household items such as garments and rugs. In...
Secretary; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Charles James Daniel was born in Orange County, Virginia. Before coming to the Institute he had studied at Howard University, and was a graduate of the Richmond Institute in 1878. He taught school in Louisa County, Virginia, and from 1882 to...
Southern University and A & M College--Buildings; Machine shops
[Machine Shop]. This brick structure was built in 1921. This small one-story building repeats the stepped parapet and string courses found on the Industrial Building for Girls. It also features simple decorative brick panels (similar to those...
[Laundry/Riverside Hall]. This brick structure was built in 1922 as a one-story laundry facility. Some time before 1937 the building was renamed Riverside Hall. At that time, it was lengthened on its western end and a second story was added for...
[Martin L. Harvey Chapel/Auditorium]. This brick structure was built in 1928. Resembling a monumental one-story structure but actually two stories in height, the brick auditorium building is composed of two masses- -a moderately sized rectangular...
Antioch School of Law; District of Columbia School of Law; District of Columbia Teachers College; Federal City College; Miner Normal School; Miner Teachers College; University of the District of Columbia; Washington Normal School; Washington...
The UDC Digital Archives Collection contains images documenting the history of UDC and its predecessor institutions from 1851 to the Present. Therefore, in addition to the University of the District of Columbia (founded in 1976), institutions...
Dr. Edward N. Wilson, sculptor and chairman of the Art Department, is working on an over-sized bust of the late John Spencer Bassett, former professor of History at Trinity College, now Duke University. This work was commissioned by Duke...
Portrait of Dr. M. Maceo Nance, Jr., the Fifth President of SC State, Served From 1968-1986. During His Tenure the University Experienced Growth and Expansion In Facilities, Programs and the Reputation of the University. Nance Oversaw the Addition...
Federal City College -- Presidents;
Russell, Wendell R.
Wendell R. Russell (1926- ) was the fourth president of Federal City College. He served from 1974 through 1977, when Federal City College merged with DCTC and WTI to form the University of the District of Columbia. From 1970 through 1974, Dr....
Jane E. Elliott, Founded the Cafeteria System at Tennessee A and I State College in 1924, the First to be Established in a Negro College and the Original One It is Believed, to be Established in the South. She Commanded National Attention to This...
A Native of Bayside, N.Y., Mae Faggs Earned the Distinction of Being the First United States Female to Participate in Three Different Olympics (1948, 1952 and 1956). She Won a Gold Medal in the 4 x 100-Meter Relay at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki...
Color photograph of Enitra Jones. The 74th "Miss Southern" a senior biology major with a minor in chemistry from Gretna, Louisiana. A member of the Southern University honors college (Beta Beta Beta), president of Beta Kappa chi,...
Spikes, Dolores Margaret R. [Richard], 1936-; Southern University and A & M College--Administration
Color photograph of Dr. Dolores M. R. Spikes. Dr. Dolores Spikes served as Southern's sixth President but, she also served as the university's third president of the Southern University system. She was also the first female to lead a public...
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is November 1898, no. 95.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is February 1898, no. 89.
