6 1/2" x 4 1/2"b/w Photograph Mounted on Decorative 10" x 8" Board, With Names in Ink on Front, and Pencil List on Back. Notes on Back Initialled SHC (Sophy Cornwell, Librarian); Same Handwriting on Front. Date Uncertain. Names...
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Myra Hill Colson was a graduate of the Art Department of Cheyney Institute in Pennsylvania. She also earned a B.S. from Fisk University in 1915. She joined the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in the department of science in 1917. She...
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.
Not many HBCUs had Reserve Officers Training Corps, at the beginning of World War I. James Nicholas, who will graduate from Virginia State and become a full professor at Virginia State and Rector of the Board of Visitors, was a member of this corp.
High School Teacher; College Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Dannie Starr graduated from Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1928. Her career at Virginia State included time teaching at the university high school and as a member of the college faculty after 1940. She later married Charles Townes.
Faculty Member and Alumnus; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Amaza Lee Meredith was born in Lynchburg, VA in 1895. She earned a certificate in Rural Education in 1915 from the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. She returned to the Univeristy and in 1922 graduated with a Normal Degree as...
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Luther Jackson a 1914 graduate of Fisk University joined the faculty at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1922. Professor Jackson would enjoy a long career as a historian of the African American experience in Virginia. Professor...
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Otelia Shields Howard was a graduate of Fisk University in 1921. She edited what was called the Campus Review which was published in 1929. Her father, James Shields, was in the first class that graduated from Virginia Normal and Collegiate...
At The First Meeting Of The Chorus In The Autumn Of 1935 The Following Statement Of The Work And Aims Of The Organization Was Placed In The Hands Of Each Member Then Present. The chorus Sought To Offer Its Members A Retreat Into The Esthetic Realm...
From 1939 through 1943, Dr. John Hope Franklin Was a Member of the Faculty at Saint Augustine's College, Where He Was a Professor of History and Engaged in Research. Although This Was His Second Teaching Position, He Had Begun Writing "From...
Penrose Parks, Triple Threat Halfback Of Paine College Lions Was Elected "Little All American" In 1938. Native Of Griffin, GA. Member Of The College Basketball And Football Teams And Co-Captian Of The 1940 Football Team. Made All...
3-Ring Looseleaf Binder. Minutes Preceded By 5 Pages From 1943/44-1946/47, Apparently Documenting Faculty Attendance at Faculty Meetings and Faculty on Leave. Also Faculty List (ND). Minutes are Typed on One Side and Signed (For the Most Part) By...
1. Albert Einstein's Letter of 6 Jan., 1946 Accepting an Invitation to Visit Lincoln University, in German, Signed by AE; 2. Translation of Einstein's Letter By LU Registrar and Faculty Member, Dr. Paul Kuehner; 3. Cover Letter From Dean of the...
Otelia Shields; Newspaper; Virginia State College for Negroes
A special edition of the Virginia Statesman, published to honor Mrs. Otelia Shields Howard who had passed away. Mrs. Howard had been credited with establishing the student newspaper and it's high standards. Mrs. Otelia Shields Howard, Associate...
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Murray, Marvin Wachman
Rev. Jesse Jackson Was Awarded an Honorary D.Div. at the 1969 Commencement. Jackson Shakes Hands With Unknown (Presumed) Faculty Member, University Hall in Background; Prof. Andrew Murray is Immediately to Jackson's Right (i.e. Left in Picture);...
