The Morehouse College Photograph Collection includes photographs depicting the buildings and grounds, students, campus events and visitors, faculty, and individuals associated with Morehouse College dating from the 1880s through the 1970s. The images showcase aspects of the history of Morehouse College as the only all-male historically Black college in the United States. Morehouse College was founded by Reverend William Jefferson White in 1867, in Augusta, Georgia in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church and was known as The Augusta Theological Institute. After an invitation by the Reverend Frank Quarles in 1879, the College relocated to the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, and changed its name to Atlanta Baptist Seminary. The College relocated once more to its present home in the West End community of Atlanta, Georgia in 1890, and changed its name one last time to Morehouse College in 1913. Part of this collection is held in the RWWL Archives Research Center, the photograph album is held at the Morehouse College Archives. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information for any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
Aug 11, 2022

Morehouse College Photographs

The Morehouse College Photograph Collection includes photographs depicting the buildings and grounds, students, campus events and visitors, faculty, and individuals associated with Morehouse College dating from the 1880s through the 1970s. The images showcase aspects of the history of Morehouse College as the only all-male historically Black college in the United States. Morehouse College was founded by Reverend William Jefferson White in 1867, in Augusta, Georgia in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church and was known as The Augusta Theological Institute. After an invitation by the Reverend Frank Quarles in 1879, the College relocated to the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, and changed its name to Atlanta Baptist Seminary. The College relocated once more to its present home in the West End community of Atlanta, Georgia in 1890, and changed its name one last time to Morehouse College in 1913. Part of this collection is held in the RWWL Archives Research Center, the photograph album is held at the Morehouse College Archives.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information for any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
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Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 1, circa 1968 1964/1972 Benjamin E. Mays, and Hugh Morris Gloster, wearing regalia stand at a podium. African American Universities and Colleges, Presidents, African Americans--Education, Special events Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 2, circa 1968 1964/1972 Benjamin E. Mays with an unidentified man and woman, wear regalia. African American Universities and Colleges, Presidents, African Americans--Education, Special events Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 3, circa 1968 1964/1972 Martin Luther King, Sr. delivers a speech at a podium. Faculty and staff, African American universities and colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 4, circa 1968 1964/1972 Hugh Morris Gloster shakes hands with a man wearing regalia. On sign in background-Morehouse College, The Second Century. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 5, circa 1968 1964/1972 Men put on regalia. African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 6, circa 1968 1964/1972 Sam Massell, Jr., Vice Mayor of Atlanta, speaks at a podium. African American universities and colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education, African Americans--Politics and government Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 7, circa 1968 1964/1972 President Jerome Holland, Hampton Institute, speaks at a podium. African American universities and colleges, Presidents, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 8, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man speaks at a podium wearing a commencement robe. African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education, Speeches Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 9, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man speaks at a podium while Hugh Morris Gloster looks on. African American universities and colleges, Special events, Presidents, African Americans--Education, Speeches Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 10, circa 1968 1964/1972 Hugh Morris Gloster and two other unidentified men wearing regalia, stand at a podium. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 11, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man speaks at a podium while Hugh Morris Gloster looks on. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education, Speeches Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 12, circa 1968 1964/1972 Hugh Morris Gloster and an unidentified man sit on stage and clap. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 13, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man speaks at a podium alongside two other men and a woman seated. African American universities and colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 14, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man speaks at a microphone with young men wearing 'Morehouse' blazers in background. African American universities and colleges, African American arts, African Americans--Music, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 15, circa 1968 1964/1972 Benjamin Mays stands with Hugh Morris Gloster and an unidentified man talking. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 16, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man delivers a speech at a podium. African American universities and colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 17, circa 1968 1964/1972 An unidentified man delivers a speech at a podium. African American universities and colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 18, circa 1968 1964/1972 Hugh Morris Gloster stands at a podium wearing regalia. Presidents, African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 25, circa 1968 1964/1972 Butler T. Henderson delivers a speech at a podium. Written on verso: Butler T. Henderson Faculty and staff, African American Universities and Colleges, Speeches, Special events, African Americans--Education Morehouse College Photographs
Photo Album of Morehouse College's 101st Anniversary Celebration, image 26, circa 1968 1964/1972 Martin Luther King, Sr. sits in the audience with his family. Written on verso: King family; M.L. King Sr. African American universities and colleges, Special events, African Americans--Education, African American families Morehouse College Photographs