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.
Graduation portrait of Henry A. Wallace. Son of Henry C. Wallace and friend of George Washington Carver, Wallace remembered Carver with appreciation: "Because of his friendship with my father and perhaps his interest in children George Carver often took me with him on botany expeditions, and it was he who first introduced me to the mysteries of plant fertilization. He seemed to have a great sympathy with me... Later on I was to have an intimate acquaintance with plants myself, because I spent a good many years breeding corn. Perhaps that was partly because this scientist, who belonged to another race, had deepened my appreciation of plants in a way I could never forget. Certainly because of his faith I became interested in things that today give me a distinct pleasure. I feel I must pay him this debt of gratitude." Henry A. Wallace was a 1910 graduate of Iowa State. After graduation, he farmed and wrote for Wallace's Farmer. He took over as the magazine's editor when his father became Secretary of Agriculture. He also founded the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company in 1926, launching the first commercial production of hybrid seed corn. In 1932, Wallace was selected as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture, a position held until 1940, when he was elected as Roosevelt's third term Vice President. He was not chosen as Vice President for Roosevelt's fourth term, but was selected as Secretary of Commerce. He held this post until 1946. At that time, differences with then President Harry S. Truman over U.S.-Soviet relations forced Wallace's dismissal. After an unsuccessful run for President in 1948 on the Progressive Party ticket, Wallace retired from public life. He spent the rest of his years pursuing his interest in plant hybridization. Neg. # 2332.
Portrait of Henry C. Wallace, one of George Washington Carver's professors. Henry C. Wallace graduated in 1892 from Iowa State, a degree that was begun in 1885 and then interrupted by a career in farming. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in Dairying after completing his studies. While on the faculty, he started a publication, The Farm and Dairy, which was moved to Des Moines in 1896 and renamed Wallace's Farmer. Wallace left teaching to work on the magazine, which was edited by his father. He took over editorship upon his father's death in 1916. He was called to be President Warren G. Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in 1921, a position held until his death in 1924. Neg. # 031565.
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).
George W. Carver I.A.C. Class '94. Taken in 1893. Graduation picture, which appeared in the 1894 Bomb (published in 1893), on page facing page 34. Neg # 02364C (same picture appears in the faculty section of the 1896 Bomb, when he was Assistant Botanist in the Agricultural Experiment Station from 1894 to 1896). Neg # 02365.
