This page contains media from Harvey Wiley’s work and life story that I have collected over the years.


Dr. Wiley weighing food at the laboratory table with William S. Carter (cook and first black scientist for the FDA), surrounded by Poison Squad volunteers.

William Carter in the Poison Squad kitchen.

Division Of Chemistry Facility, 1890-1898

Bureau of Chemistry Staff, 1890. From left to right: M. Fuller, --- Wheeler, unknown, Edgar Richards, A.E. Knorr, T.C. Trescot, William Frear, H.W. Wiley, John Dugan and C.A. Crampton.

Food and Drug Inspectors in a Creamery.

Bureau of Chemistry Facility, 1910-1935.

Theodore Roosevelt with Cabinet.

1900 Outdoor Food Market, 7th Street Penn. Ave., Washington D.C.

The White House in 1906.

Center Market Interior in Washington, D.C.