George Washington Carver's Graduation Photo from Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, 1893
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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.
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.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1893
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.147
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.75 in
Width: 3 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in pencil on back of image: G.W. Carver / 1893 / Graduation / Picture / which appeared in the / 1894 BOMB (published / in 1893, on page 34. Also appeared / in faculty section of 1896 / Bomb / Neg #02365C / Iowa State Univ. / Archives / 1982 / DUP / 21/7/A Stamped on back in black ink: 53
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