George Washington Carver’s Laboratory (ca. 1902)

A photograph of a chemistry laboratory, with three lab benches in the foreground, midground, and background. Black men in white shirts, dark coats, and dark ties are working at each bench. In the right foreground, framed by a doorway behind him, is George Washington Carver, a mustachioed Black man wearing a dark coat and tie, looking down at another chemist's work.

George Washington Carver is standing second from the right in this photograph of a chemistry classroom at the Tuskegee Institute in this photograph taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Tuskegee, Alabama, ca. 1902. (Library of Congress)

AP African American Studies Guide

Frances Benjamin Johnston, George Washington Carver’s Laboratory (ca. 1902)

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