Portrait photo of Prof. John Langston, Howard University

African American educator, diplomat, and legislator.
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve.
John Mercer Langston was a professor at Howard University starting in 1868 (Source: L. Salisbury, 2016)
8x10 sized glass; annotation from label, scratched into emulsion: Prof. Langston.
Minister to Haiti.
Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954.
General information about the Brady-Handy photograph collection is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Brady-Handy photograph collection (Library of Congress).