Bristow served on the college faculty from 1882 to 1894. He was principal of the preparatory department and also taught classes in bookkeeping and beekeeping.
Identified from left to right are Ida Burnett, Elmer E. Charman, Miss Jessie Taylor, and T. Leonard Charles [?]. Ida Burnett, later Ida Callahan, served as principal of OAC's preparatory department (1894-95), as Dean of Women (1906-07), and as an instructor of English from 1896 until her death in 1932. Callahan Hall is named for her.