Correspondence.

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Correspondence.

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Photocopies of letters from George Washington Carver to Ford Davis of Girard, Alabama that later became Girard Station, Phoenix, Alabama. Eventually Davis worked in the accounting department of Tom Huston Peanut Company in Columbus, Georgia. One of the letters is from B.D. Washington to Davis, and one is from Dr. Carver to J.J. Lewis, editor of The Columbus Advocate. Most of the letters are holographs. The later ones reveal that Dr. Carver was in poor health.

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

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Agricultural scientist, teacher, humanitarian, artist, and Iowa State alumnus (1894, 1896). George Washington Carver was born ca. 1864, the son of slaves on the Moses Carver plantation near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He lost his father in infancy, and at the age of 6 months was stolen along with his mother by raiders, but was later found and traded back to his owner for a $300 race horse. He enrolled in Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa in 1890 studying music and art. Etta Budd, his art instructor ...

Lewis, J. (James)

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Davis, Ford.

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