George Washington Carver's Log Cabin Birthplace, Drawn from His Memories in 1937
THF113849 / George Washington Carver's Log Cabin Birthplace, Drawn from His Memories in 1937
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Artifact Overview
An artist's rendering of George W. Carver's birthplace became the inspiration for the memorial that Henry Ford built in 1942 in Greenfield Village. E.J. Cutler, who managed building relocations, received this photostat of the drawing from Tuskegee Institute in 1937. It is not signed by Carver but, given Carver's artistic talents, he could have sketched the cabin from memory.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Stat (Copy)
Date Made
1937
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
37.806.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Reprographic processes
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
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Henry Ford built this cabin in 1942 to honor his friend, agricultural scientist George Washington Carver. The cabin was based on Carver's recollections of the slave cabin in Missouri in which he was born in 1864. Carver spent his career at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, advocating for new crops, such as peanuts, that would enrich both Southern farmers and Southern soils.