Chapel, Tuskegee Instutute, between 1916 and 1927
Dates
- Creation: between 1916 and 1927
Creator
Access
Open for research.
Extent
1 photographs : gelatin silver print ; ; print 31 x 51 cm)Biographical / Historical
Designed by Robert R. Taylor, director of Tuskegee Institute's Department of Mechanical Industries and the first African American graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the original chapel at Tuskegee Institute was built between 1896 and 1898 almost entirely of student labor, using bricks made in the Institute brickyard. In 1957, it was destroyed by fire.
General note
Cirkut camera photograph. Blind stamp: C.M. Battey, Instructor, Photographic Division, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Oversize.
Source of information
Title devised. Date based on years Battey headed the photography department at Tuskegee Institute.
Creator
Repository Details
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