Henry Ford with George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, March 1938

Summary

In March 1938, Henry Ford visited George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, as seen in this photo. They had met in person the previous year when Carver visited Dearborn for a conference on "chemurgy," the science of making industrial products from crops. The two were close friends and colleagues and visited each other several additional times before Carver's death in 1943.

In March 1938, Henry Ford visited George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, as seen in this photo. They had met in person the previous year when Carver visited Dearborn for a conference on "chemurgy," the science of making industrial products from crops. The two were close friends and colleagues and visited each other several additional times before Carver's death in 1943.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

March 1938

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.930

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: 10 in

Width: 8.5 in

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