The Faculty and Students of Wilberforce University. Wilberforce, Ohio. Oct 9th 1926 [Caption in negative]

Wilberforce, Ohio, 1926. Very good +. 15 7/8" x 66½". Black and white panoramic photograph. Very good plus: chip to upper right corner not affecting image, a few tiny marginal tears and surface imperfections.

This is a mammoth five and a half foot long photo of students and faculty at Wilberforce University, the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. The crisp image shows several hundred students as well as faculty. Dorothy Vaughan, the NASA mathematician who was featured in the book and movie, Hidden Figures, was attending Wilberforce at the time and we think she can be seen in the photo in the sixth row from the bottom, (truncated) sixth person in from the left. The photo may also show Milton Wright, the economist who gained fame due to his audience with Adolf Hitler in 1932, and who became Dean of Wilberforce in 1959.

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