George Washington Carver Meeting with Students in Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village, 1942
THF213743 / George Washington Carver Meeting with Students in Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village, 1942
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Artifact Overview
When George Washington Carver visited Dearborn for the last time in 1942, he gave a speech to Edison Institute students. Holding up sedums he had picked near Cotswold Cottage, he quoted Tennyson and the Bible, offering strategies for developing holistic knowledge about the created natural world. He took students' questions about clays, nutrition, and religion with grace and good humor.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
24 July 1942
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.12146
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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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ArtifactMartha-Mary Chapel
Churches were a center of community life in the 1700s, a place where townspeople came together to attend services and socialize. The Martha-Mary Chapel, with its architecture inspired by New England's colonial-era churches, was built in Greenfield Village in 1929. This chapel was named after Henry Ford's mother, Mary Litogot Ford, and his mother-in-law, Martha Bench Bryant.