Budd family portrait with Joseph Lancaster Budd and Sarah Breed Budd with their children, Etta May and Allen Joseph. It was at Etta May Budd's urging that George Washington Carver transfer to Iowa State from Simpson College to study agriculture. Carver's first love was art, but Miss Budd feared that he would be unable to make a living as an artist. She felt it would be more practical to pursue another of his interests, plant science. She suggested he go to Iowa State, where her father, Joseph Lancaster Budd, was Head of the Horticulture Department from 1877 to 1900. Neg. 0039585.
Photograph of the Department of Military Science and Tactics with George Washington Carver 4th from left in the front row kneeling. The Department of Military Science and Tactics was established in 1870 along with the S.A.T.C. as a result of a provision in the Morrill Land Grant Act. In 1916, Congress passed the National Defense Act, which provided for the establishment of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (R.O.T.C.). Old Main and Morrill Hall can be seen in the background.
Portrait of Edgar W. Stanton, George Washington Carver's professor in plane geometry. Edgar W. Stanton served Iowa State continuously from his graduation in 1872 until his death in 1920. He was made Head of the Mathematics Department in 1874, served as Secretary of the Board of trustees from 1874 to 1909, and was four times Acting President of Iowa State. After the death of his first wife, Margaret MacDonald Stanton, in 1895, Stanton presented the college with the first ten bells of the carillon hanging in the Campanile. After Edgar Stanton's death, his second wife, Julie Wentch Stanton, and his children contributed 26 additional bells. The carillon is known as the Stanton Memorial Carillon. Neg. # 0051527.
Photograph of the Faculty and Farmers Institute at Tuskegee Institute, circa 1897, with George Washington Carver pictured at top, far left. Received from Carver: "My First Faculty and Farmers Institute at Tuskegee Inst. Ala. Geo. W. Carver" (negative number 02363C).
