The Baton Rouge Academy, an institution sponsored by the Fourth District Missionary Baptist Association of Louisiana for black boys and girls. In 1892, a suggestion was made that the Fourth District Association purchase a tract of land for...
Cookery--Study and teaching--Louisiana; Home economics centers; Home economics students--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
The girl's Industrial department generally produced more graduates [with the exception of the high school and grammar school sections of the school], the Cooking department from its beginning experienced rapid growth. The feasibility of a cooking...
Southern University and A & M College--Buildings; Building construction--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Laying of First Brick Work on Academic Building. The completion of this building gave it the credit of being the most complete school building in the State of Louisiana for Negroes. People came from all sections of the State to see this new state...
Baseball players--Louisiana--Baton Rouge; Southern University and A & M College--Baseball
Felton G. Clark member of the 1918 Southern University baseball team is seated first on the left and his father, Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark, president of Southern University and A&M College is standing on the right.
Southern University and A & M College--Buildings; Vocational training centers--Louisiana
[Industrial Building for Boys]. This brick structure was built in 1921. Also known as the Mechanical Arts and Industrial Arts Building. This two-story brick structure was originally identical to the Industrial Building for Girls. The building...
Southern University and A & M College--Faculty housing;
Raised cottage. This is the only building that was found upon what is now Southern University when the institution relocated from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The building had been renovated and was used as a home for one of the...
Leland University owes its existence to the wise forethought and broad generosity of Holbrook Chamberlain, a resident of Brooklyn, New York. Chamberlain came to New Orleans for the purpose of establishing an institution of higher learning for...