ILLUSTRATIONS

Booker T. WashingtonFrontispiece

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Tuskegee in the making. Nothing delighted Mr. Washington more than to see his students doing the actual work of erecting the Tuskegee Institute buildings12

Tuskegee Institute students laying the foundation for one of the four Emery buildings14

"His influence, like that of his school, was at first community wide, then county wide, then State wide, and finally nation wide"16

A study in black. Note the tensity of expression with which the group is following his each and every word33

Showing some of the teams of farmers attending the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference58

An academic class. A problem in brick masonry62

Mr. Washington in characteristic pose addressing an audience136

Mr. Washington silhouetted against the crowd upon one of his educational tours136

Mr. Washington in typical pose speaking to an audience136

A party of friends who accompanied Dr. Washington on one of his educational tours138

This old woman was a regular attendant at the Tuskegee Negro Conference170

The cosmopolitan character of the Tuskegee student body is shown by the fact that during the past year students have come from the foreign countries or colonies of foreign countries indicated by the various flags shown in this picture238

In 1906 the Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 25th Anniversary. A group of well-known American characters attended248

Some of Mr. Washington's humble friends274

Soil analysis. The students are required to work out in the laboratory the problems of the field and the shop274

Mr. Washington was a great believer in the sweet potato280

Mr. Washington had this picture especially posed to show off to the best advantage a part of the Tuskegee dairy herd290

Mr. Washington feeding his chickens with green stuffs raised in his own garden306

Mr. Washington in his onion patch306

Mr. Washington sorting in his lettuce bed306