Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), was born a slave in 1856, and worked as a janitor while attending college education at the Hampton Institute in Virginia (1872). 1906.
Grover Cleveland, 22nd US President, c. 1885. Cleveland was a conservative Democrat who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. He f
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) at his desk in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory, ca. 1913.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), ca. 1885.
Grover Cleveland, 22nd US President, c. 1885. Cleveland was 5 feet 11 inches in height, with his weight ranging between 240 and 280 pounds. In the 1880s, his supporters and popular opinion interpreted
Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
President William Taft (1857-1930) using the telephone during 1908, the year of his election to the US presidency.
John D. Archbold, independent oilman and critic of Rockefeller's growing monopoly in the 1870s. He was recruited into Standard Oil in the early 1880s. After the monopoly was broken up by U.S. courts,
Herman Bernstein, Russian born Jewish American journalist, c. 1920. In 1921 he published 'History of a Lie' in response to Henry Ford's printing of 500,000 copies of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), writing at his desk. His autobiography, UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901, was a best seller.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), standing on a stage in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1912.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), ca. 1885.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), was born a slave in 1856, and worked as a janitor while attending college education at the Hampton Institute in Virginia (1872). 1906.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), speaking on a raised platform in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. 1912 photo by Arthur P. Bedou.
Booker T. Washington, detail of the print, 'Afro-American Monument'. chromolithograph ca. 1897.
Booker T. Washington addressing a laughing crowd of African American men in Lakeland, Tennessee, during his campaign promoting African American education. Ca. 1900.