- Collection:
- Digital Collection of Robert W. Woodruff Library (AUC)
- Title:
- Photograph of Edward O. Thayer, Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1881
- Publisher:
- Digital Collection of Robert W. Woodruff Library (AUC)
- Date of Original:
- 1881
- Subject:
- Universities and colleges--Georgia--Atlanta
African American universities and colleges--Georgia--Atlanta
College presidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)
Methodist Episcopal Church--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dr. Thayer was elected President of the University at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 9, 1881. Black and white photograph of Edward O. Thayer. On June 9, 1881, Mr. Thayer was appointed as President of Clark University. He served as president until 1890. In 1869 Clark College was founded by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was named for Bishop Davis Wasgatt Clark, who was the first President of the Freedman's Aid Society and became Bishop in 1864. In 1877, Clark College was chartered as Clark University. In 1988 Clark University and Atlanta University combined to form the Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Local Identifier:
- auc.003.indx3.00000000.pho0222.jpg
- Metadata URL:
- http://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/rwwl/id/113
- Rights Holder:
- All images in this collection either are protected by copyright or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact archives@auctr.edu with specific object file name.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
