George Washington Carver and Floyd Starr, Starr Commonwealth School for Boys, Albion, Michigan, 1939
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In 1939 George Washington Carver traveled to Albion, Michigan, to visit Floyd E. Starr's Starr Commonwealth for Boys, a school for orphaned, homeless, or "delinquent" young men. Starr's philosophy was that "there was no such thing as a bad boy," and he founded this residential school as a religious and social mission. In this photograph, Carver is being applauded by Starr and a choir member.
In 1939 George Washington Carver traveled to Albion, Michigan, to visit Floyd E. Starr's Starr Commonwealth for Boys, a school for orphaned, homeless, or "delinquent" young men. Starr's philosophy was that "there was no such thing as a bad boy," and he founded this residential school as a religious and social mission. In this photograph, Carver is being applauded by Starr and a choir member.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
October 1939
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Albion
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.165
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: 5 in
Width: 7 in
Inscriptions
Ink stamp on back of photograph reads: PHOTOGRAPH MADE BY / HARLAND A. LUDWIG / ALBION, MICHIGAN
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