From unofficial SIPS historian Ed Cobb, this video features vintage film clips of famous Cornell faculty, including Anna Botsford Comstock, John Henry Comstock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Herbert Hice Whetzel. Also, footage of David ...
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Williston both taught and practiced as a horticulturist and campus planner at dozens of historically black institutions, including Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, where he taught for more than 20 years. See profile by Ed ...
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From Ed Cobb, Chair, SIPS History Committee: Jane Eleanor Datcher (Nellie to her friends) was the first African-American woman to obtain an advanced degree at Cornell. She grew up in Washington, D.C. where she ...
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By Ed Cobb, SIPS history committee chair One notable example of Ezra Cornell’s “… any person … any study” vision is Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877-1978). Born in Maryland to a family of sharecroppers, Turner ...
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Summer Nature Study School students and faculty, circa 1898. (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library)
In September 1904 cyanotype by Liberty Hyde Bailey, his gardener C. E. Hunn shows runners on dwarf lima bean plants in Bailey’s shading experiments.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (standing, far right) and his horticulture students in 1898. David A. Williston ’98, the first professionally trained African American Landscape Architect in the U.S., is sitting, fifth from the right with bow ...
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Floral decoration for Sage Chapel by Edward A White, Easter 1923. White was Horticulture chair from 1913 until 1939.
Soils class field laboratory near Varna in 1907.
The original Roberts Hall faced Tower Rd. near the corner of Garden Ave.
