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Emmett J. Scott (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957 and Lyman Beecher Stowe, 1880-1963
Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916.

In 1906, the Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 25th Anniversary. In the group above appear such well-known American characters as Dr. William J. Schieffelin, New York; Dr. H. B. Frissell, Hampton Institute, Va.; J. G. Phelps Stokes, philanthropist, New York; Isaac N. Seligman, banker, New York; Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook; Dr. Wallace Buttrick, Secretary General Education Board; William G. Willcox, now President of the New York Board of Education; Robert C. Ogden, philanthropist, New York; Andrew Carnegie, and Miss Clara Spence of the Spence School, with numbers of their friends

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Subjects:
  • Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
  • Tuskegee Institute--Commemoration.
  • Anniversaries--Alabama.
  • Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
  • Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917.
  • Stokes, J. G. Phelps.
  • Ogden, Robert C. (Robert Curtis), 1836-1913.
  • Buttrick, Wallace.