[Class of 1899]

[Pictured: George W. Burris, front row, left; W. Franklin Bourland, front row, second from left; William T. Ward, second to last row, left]
The Comet, Nashville, Tennessee: Greek Letter Fraternities of Vanderbilt University, 1896
Yearbook
Vanderbilt University Special Collections 

Vanderbilt yearbooks provide some of the best photographs of the Cherokee and Chickasaw students during their time at Vanderbilt. While the Comet did not run photographs in the 1880s when William Wirt Hastings and William Pressley Thompson were students, the 1890s editions include many class and team photographs and composites. Students also sat for individual and group portraits at Nashville photography studios. The Oklahoma Historical Society and Tennessee State Library and Archives have multiple images of Vanderbilt’s indigenous students, artfully posing in formal attire.