George Washington Carver's Graduation Photo from Iowa State University, 1893

After a young adulthood of traveling, working, and homesteading, George Washington Carver was able to attend college. He first attended Simpson College in Iowa and transferred to Iowa State, then called Iowa Agricultural College, to pursue botany. He was one of the first African-Americans to matriculate and to serve on the faculty there. This is his graduation picture, taken when he was about thirty.