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 tie and glasses.
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.
This photo is located in Cornell’s Rare Manuscript Collection, Kroch Library.