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Floyd Starr Watches as George Washington Carver Shells Corn, Starr Commonwealth School, Albion, Michigan, 1939

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Artifact Overview

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 shelling corn while Starr looks on.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

October 1939

Creators

Place of Creation

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

00.1334.162

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: 5.5 in
Width: 7 in

Inscriptions

Ink stamp on back of photograph reads: PHOTOGRAPH MADE BY / HARLAND A. LUDWIG / ALBION, MICHIGAN
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