Henry Ford Inscribing Cement Block at Dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941
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Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.
Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
March 1941
Keywords
United States, Alabama, Tuskegee
United States, Georgia, Bryan county, Keller
Curtis, Austin W. (Austin Wingate), 1911-2004
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988
Patterson, Catherine Elizabeth Moton
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.4966
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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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