Austin Curtis, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, Wilbur Donaldson and Frank Campsall Inspect Bottles of Peanut Oil, Tuskegee Institute, March 1938

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Artifact Overview

In 1938, Henry Ford visited his friend George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where Carver had lived and conducted his agricultural research and education since 1896. Carver advocated for peanuts as healthful for humans and good for depleted soils. In this photo Austin Curtis, Carver's assistant; Carver; Ford; and two of Ford's employees, Wilbur Donaldson and Frank Campsall, consider bottles of peanut oil.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

March 1938

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

00.1334.152

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: 3.75 in
Width: 4.75 in

Inscriptions

Number 9 circled on back in ink. Handwritten in pencil on back: Assit (sic) to G.W. Carver / Austin W. Clark (sic) /G.W. Carver / H Ford / Wilbur Donaldson / ? / 2/12/52 Ebling
Austin Curtis, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, Wilbur Donaldson and Frank Campsall Inspect Bottles of Peanut Oil, Tuskegee Institute, March 1938