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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Summer Nature Study School students and faculty, circa 1898. (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell Library)
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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Inside Sage Conservatory 1890.
One of the first Extension field days, LeRoy, N.Y. circa 1895
In 1890 Jane Eleanor Datcher was the first African-American woman in the U.S. to earn a BS degree in botany.
Sage College and Conservatory was home to the Botany Department from 1875 until 1921.
