GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER – AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/30/1932

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  • Condition: Used
  • Autograph Type: Autograph Letter Signed
  • Authentication: Numbered COA issued by Gallery of History, Inc.
  • Autograph: Authentic Original
  • Signed by: George Washington Carver
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    GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER – AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/30/1932 – HFSID 217851
    GEORGE W. CARVER
    George W. Carver sends an autograph letter asking when a friend will
    be able to come.
    Autograph Letter Signed:
    “G.W. Carver,”
    1p, 8½x11.
    Tuskegee
    Institute,
    Alabama, 1932 May 30.
    On stationery of
    Tuskegee
    Normal and Industrial Institute for the Training of Colored Young Men and
    Women
    ,
    as Director of the Research and Experiment Station,
    to
    Tuskegee student Ford Davis
    .
    In full:
    “Looked for you, with
    pleasant anticipation, all afternoon yesterday. Hope you are not ill. When can
    you come?”
    George Washington Carver (circa 1860-1943) had received a degree
    in Agricultural Science in 1894 from Iowa State Agricultural College. He was
    appointed the
    Director of Agricultural Research at Tuskegee Institute
    by
    its founder, Booker T. Washington, in 1896, the year Carver earned his master’s
    degree from Iowa. Serving at
    Tuskegee for the next 47 years,
    Carver
    developed over 300 uses for peanut by-products and 100 product uses for sweet
    potatoes and soybeans. Beginning in mid-1930, Carver began offering his
    expertise to Grady Porter, a researcher with the Tom Huston Company, a peanut
    processing plant in Columbus, Georgia. Porter was experimenting with planting
    Virginia-type peanuts in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and, after the
    experimental crops failed,
    Carver diagnosed plant diseases
    that were
    ruining more than 20 percent of the crop.
    He detailed his findings in “Some
    Peanut Diseases”, which was published by Porter and his fellow researcher, Bob
    Barry, in February 1931.
    After Porter and Barry sent 5,000 copies of
    Carver’s report to peanut farmers, shelling plants and agencies, including the
    United States Department of Agriculture,
    the USDA recognized Carver as a
    “gifted naturalist”
    , and beginning in 1935,
    Carver collaborated on the
    agency’s Plant Disease Survey.
    Amazingly, the Tom Huston Company, which
    shared Carver’s genuine concern for Southern farmers, had been the only company
    of its kind to take advantage of Carver’s scientific advice.
    In addition to
    his research, Carver frequently corresponded with “his boys”, students who
    showed particular promise while at Tuskegee and young men, who attended various
    schools throughout the country (most had met Carver at a lecture). Carver’s
    correspondence provided these students with support and encouragement in their
    studies and goals.
    Two file holes at top center. Browned at edges, foxing,
    vertical fold through the “C” in Carver.
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