George Washington Carver Carrying a Potted Plant, Tuskegee Institute, 1939
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George Washington Carver, the agricultural scientist and educator, lived in a classroom, research and guest house building at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama called Dorothy Hall. He had rooms upstairs and a laboratory downstairs. This snapshot of Carver shows him, plant in hand, in front of Dorothy Hall in the late 1930s.
George Washington Carver, the agricultural scientist and educator, lived in a classroom, research and guest house building at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama called Dorothy Hall. He had rooms upstairs and a laboratory downstairs. This snapshot of Carver shows him, plant in hand, in front of Dorothy Hall in the late 1930s.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
29 April 1939
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.159
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: 3.25 in
Width: 5 in
Inscriptions
Faded ink stamp on back reads April 29 1939
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