Map; Appomattox Indian Town; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
A photograph of a plat map showing the location of one of four Appomattox Indian Towns. On this site will be a farm called "Ettrick Banks" later Virginia State University. This was the site of one of the Indian Towns attacked by Nat...
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia -- Buildings
When UDC was created, the Van Ness campus was to house the Colleges of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, and Educations and Human Ecology. The College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the College of Business and Public...
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia -- Buildings
When UDC was created, the Van Ness campus was to house the Colleges of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, and Educations and Human Ecology. The College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the College of Business and Public...
This building was located in New Orleans between Magazine and Soniat Streets. The original site for Southern University was in an old building on Calliope Street (No. 158) in New Orleans in 1881. This building had previously housed the Hebrew...
United States. National Bureau of Standards;
Washington Technical Institute
The original 32 acre site where WTI was housed is near the National Zoological Gardens on the south, Rock Creek Park on the east, and the shopping areas of Chevy Chase and Reno Road to the west.
United States. National Bureau of Standards;
Washington Technical Institute
The WTI campus was on the site formerly occupied by the National Bureau of Standards. Beginning in 1967, the old testing laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards were modified into technical classrooms; government offices remodeled with...
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Federal
City College;
Dickson, David;
Farner, Frank;
Federal City College
FCC President Frank Farner and FCC Vice president of Academic Affairs, David Dickson, at a construction site for one of the sites for FCC planned to use for instruction.
The Agricultural department was popular especially among the rural students, but the location of a site for the new agricultural school proved to be a problem. Beginning in the summer, 1890, the professor of the Agricultural and Mechanical...
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 1895, no. 71.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friend and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is December 1904, no. 150.
Map; View of Fleet Farms; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Drawn after the Civil War, the plat map shows Ettrick in 1867. The area called B.L. Robinson became the original site of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.
Blueprint of Campus Master Plan; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
In 1928, the University engaged Charles M. Robinson to develop a campus master plan. Mr. Robinson used three factors in putting together this site plan, the univeristy overlooks the Appomattox River, the number of acres, and the curriculum. For...
School Teacher; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
William Henry Johnson is shown in this 1889 wedding photograph with Mrs. Nannie Brewer Johnson. William Henry Johnson was the son of Henry Johnson, who had been born a slave on the old Fleet Plantation site. Mrs. Nannie Brewer Johnson was also...
Henry Johnson; Malinda Johnson; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
The home was built by Henry Johnson in 1865 after the end of the Civil War on Rome Street in Petersburg, VA. Henry Johnson had been born a slave on the old Fleet Plantation, now the site of Virginia State University. The house is still standing.
Wilson Normal School;
Wilson Normal School -- Buildings
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Buildings
In 1911, Congress appropriated funds for a new building, which was constructed at Eleventh and Harvard Streets, NW, and completed by 1912. The new building was occupied in 1913, under the name – James Ormond Wilson Normal School, who was...
