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- Henry Ford Inscribing Cement Block at Dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941 - Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.
- March 01, 1941
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Henry Ford Inscribing Cement Block at Dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941
Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.
- Clara Ford, Henry Ford, and George Washington Carver at the Carver School Dedication, Richmond Hill, Georgia, 1940 - Henry Ford honored his friend George Washington Carver by naming a school on his property in Georgia after Carver. Seated in a classroom at the 1940 dedication of the George Washington Carver School are, from left to right, Austin W. Curtis, Jr., Carver's assistant; Frederick D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee Institute; Clara Ford; Henry Ford; and Carver. On the chalkboard is a song dedicated to Henry Ford.
- March 13, 1940
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Clara Ford, Henry Ford, and George Washington Carver at the Carver School Dedication, Richmond Hill, Georgia, 1940
Henry Ford honored his friend George Washington Carver by naming a school on his property in Georgia after Carver. Seated in a classroom at the 1940 dedication of the George Washington Carver School are, from left to right, Austin W. Curtis, Jr., Carver's assistant; Frederick D. Patterson, President of Tuskegee Institute; Clara Ford; Henry Ford; and Carver. On the chalkboard is a song dedicated to Henry Ford.
- Letter from Henry Ford to Frederick Douglass Patterson, January 8, 1943 - George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943. After hearing the news, his friend Henry Ford sent a letter of sympathy and appreciation to Frederick Douglass Patterson, president of the Tuskegee Institute, the university in Alabama where Carver had worked since 1896. Ford and the noted agricultural scientist had been friends and colleagues since the late 1930s.
- January 08, 1943
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Letter from Henry Ford to Frederick Douglass Patterson, January 8, 1943
George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943. After hearing the news, his friend Henry Ford sent a letter of sympathy and appreciation to Frederick Douglass Patterson, president of the Tuskegee Institute, the university in Alabama where Carver had worked since 1896. Ford and the noted agricultural scientist had been friends and colleagues since the late 1930s.
- George Washington Carver, Clara Ford, and Henry Ford at Dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941 - Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.
- March 01, 1941
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George Washington Carver, Clara Ford, and Henry Ford at Dedication of George Washington Carver Museum, March 1941
Henry and Clara Ford helped formally dedicate the George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee, Alabama, in March 1941. Dr. Carver watched as the Fords signed their names into a cement block. Bottles of soybeans and plant-based plastic automobile parts inserted in the block signified the lifetime of agricultural discoveries by the scientist and their innovative applications by the industrialist.