The Morehouse College Photograph Collection includes photographs depicting the buildings and grounds, students, campus events and visitors, faculty, and individuals associated with Morehouse College dating from the 1880s through the 1970s. The images showcase aspects of the history of Morehouse College as the only all-male historically Black college in the United States. Morehouse College was founded by Reverend William Jefferson White in 1867, in Augusta, Georgia in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church and was known as The Augusta Theological Institute. After an invitation by the Reverend Frank Quarles in 1879, the College relocated to the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, and changed its name to Atlanta Baptist Seminary. The College relocated once more to its present home in the West End community of Atlanta, Georgia in 1890, and changed its name one last time to Morehouse College in 1913. Part of this collection is held in the RWWL Archives Research Center, the photograph album is held at the Morehouse College Archives. 

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information for any of the works in this collection.  To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
Aug 11, 2022

Morehouse College Photographs

The Morehouse College Photograph Collection includes photographs depicting the buildings and grounds, students, campus events and visitors, faculty, and individuals associated with Morehouse College dating from the 1880s through the 1970s. The images showcase aspects of the history of Morehouse College as the only all-male historically Black college in the United States. Morehouse College was founded by Reverend William Jefferson White in 1867, in Augusta, Georgia in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church and was known as The Augusta Theological Institute. After an invitation by the Reverend Frank Quarles in 1879, the College relocated to the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, and changed its name to Atlanta Baptist Seminary. The College relocated once more to its present home in the West End community of Atlanta, Georgia in 1890, and changed its name one last time to Morehouse College in 1913. Part of this collection is held in the RWWL Archives Research Center, the photograph album is held at the Morehouse College Archives.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information for any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.

Certificate presented to Morehouse for participation in the National Association of College Deans, Registrars and Admission Officers.
Morehouse College Photographs
Portrait of Grady Butler.
Morehouse College Photographs
Portrait of Lerone Bennett.
Morehouse College Photographs
Portrait of Wiley Perdue speaking at a podium. Written on verso: Mr. Wiley A. Perdue, business manager.
Morehouse College Photographs
Portrait of Robert Leonard. Written on verso: Dr. Robert Leonard, Director of Development.
Morehouse College Photographs
Benjamin E. Mays, and Hugh Morris Gloster, wearing regalia stand at a podium.
Benjamin E. Mays with an unidentified man and woman, wear regalia.
Martin Luther King, Sr. delivers a speech at a podium.
Hugh Morris Gloster shakes hands with a man wearing regalia. On sign in background-Morehouse College, The Second Century.
Men put on regalia.
Sam Massell, Jr., Vice Mayor of Atlanta, speaks at a podium.
President Jerome Holland, Hampton Institute, speaks at a podium.
An unidentified man speaks at a podium wearing a commencement robe.
An unidentified man speaks at a podium while Hugh Morris Gloster looks on.
Hugh Morris Gloster and two other unidentified men wearing regalia, stand at a podium.
An unidentified man speaks at a podium while Hugh Morris Gloster looks on.
Hugh Morris Gloster and an unidentified man sit on stage and clap.
An unidentified man speaks at a podium alongside two other men and a woman seated.
An unidentified man speaks at a microphone with young men wearing 'Morehouse' blazers in background.
Benjamin Mays stands with Hugh Morris Gloster and an unidentified man talking.