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- Letter from Austin Curtis, Jr. to Henry and Clara Ford, August 26, 1942 - Chemist Austin Curtis, Jr., came to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1935 to assist the increasingly frail George Washington Carver and carry on his work. Curtis accompanied Carver on his many trips, including one to Greenfield Village in the summer of 1942. In this letter he thanks Henry and Clara Ford for their hospitality on the recent visit.
- August 26, 1942
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Letter from Austin Curtis, Jr. to Henry and Clara Ford, August 26, 1942
Chemist Austin Curtis, Jr., came to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1935 to assist the increasingly frail George Washington Carver and carry on his work. Curtis accompanied Carver on his many trips, including one to Greenfield Village in the summer of 1942. In this letter he thanks Henry and Clara Ford for their hospitality on the recent visit.
- Letter of Thanks from Austin W. Curtis after a Visit to the George Washington Carver Cabin in Greenfield Village, August 26, 1982 -
- August 17, 1982
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Letter of Thanks from Austin W. Curtis after a Visit to the George Washington Carver Cabin in Greenfield Village, August 26, 1982
- Telegram from Austin Curtis, Jr. to Henry Ford, January 6, 1943 - Henry Ford and conservationist George Washington Carver had been close friends beginning in the late 1930s. When Carver died in January 1943, Carver's assistant Austin Curtis, Jr. sent a telegram from Tuskegee, Alabama, where Carver had worked and taught since 1896, to Henry Ford in Dearborn. Ford sent flowers to the funeral and released a statement appreciating Carver's life and achievements.
- January 06, 1943
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Telegram from Austin Curtis, Jr. to Henry Ford, January 6, 1943
Henry Ford and conservationist George Washington Carver had been close friends beginning in the late 1930s. When Carver died in January 1943, Carver's assistant Austin Curtis, Jr. sent a telegram from Tuskegee, Alabama, where Carver had worked and taught since 1896, to Henry Ford in Dearborn. Ford sent flowers to the funeral and released a statement appreciating Carver's life and achievements.
- Some Choice Wild Vegetables That Make Fine Foods (Revised), February 1938 -
- February 01, 1938
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Some Choice Wild Vegetables That Make Fine Foods (Revised), February 1938
- Letter from Austin W. Curtis, Jr. to Henry Ford, January 21, 1943 - Austin Curtis, Jr., a chemist, was George Washington Carver's assistant at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He accompanied the frail Carver on his travels, including his trips to visit Henry Ford in Dearborn in 1939 and 1942. In this letter Curtis thanked Ford for his tributes to Carver after Carver's death earlier that month.
- January 20, 1943
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Letter from Austin W. Curtis, Jr. to Henry Ford, January 21, 1943
Austin Curtis, Jr., a chemist, was George Washington Carver's assistant at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He accompanied the frail Carver on his travels, including his trips to visit Henry Ford in Dearborn in 1939 and 1942. In this letter Curtis thanked Ford for his tributes to Carver after Carver's death earlier that month.