George Washington Carver Meeting with Students in Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village, 1942
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When George Washington Carver visited Dearborn for the last time in 1942, he gave a speech to Edison Institute students. Holding up sedums he had picked near Cotswold Cottage, he quoted Tennyson and the Bible, offering strategies for developing holistic knowledge about the created natural world. He took students' questions about clays, nutrition, and religion with grace and good humor.
When George Washington Carver visited Dearborn for the last time in 1942, he gave a speech to Edison Institute students. Holding up sedums he had picked near Cotswold Cottage, he quoted Tennyson and the Bible, offering strategies for developing holistic knowledge about the created natural world. He took students' questions about clays, nutrition, and religion with grace and good humor.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
24 July 1942
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.12146
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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