Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943

Content Description

The Bennie Douglas Mayberry Collection on George Washington Carver includes the original book materials for Mayberry's manuscript "George Washington Carver: A Handbook", photographs of George Washington Carver, a facsimile of Carver's official USDA personnel record, a reprint of the article "Bennie Douglas Mayberry: An Unsung Hero" (1995), Mayberry's resume, and photographs of Mayberry.

Content Description The Collection on George Washington Carver consists of photographs and text used in an exhibit at the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Photographs are not originals. NAL staff requested them from other sources for the exhibit. The exhibit is undated.Additionally, there are photocopies of articles about Carver, published between 1920 and 1996. There are photocopies of documents from Carver's official federal employee personnel file, which were obtained from the...

Scope and Contents

Consists of 125 letters between Dr. Carver and John A. Stevenson, C.L. Shear, Anna E. Jenkins, and others. The letters written by Dr. Carver are the originals, with the majority being hand-written. The letters written by Mr. Stevenson, Dr. Shear, Dr. Jenkins, and others are typed copies on onion skin.

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31 items from an exhibit on George Washington Carver by the US National Fungus Collections. These include newspaper clippings, obituaries, publications, letter facsimiles, signs and labels from the exhibit, and other pieces of ephemera.

Content Description The Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence contains correspondence between Carver and his friend Paul R. Miller, who was an Agricultural Research Service scientist. There are three handwritten letters dated 1932 and 1933 from Carver to Miller, and a reply from Miller dated 1932 regarding rust specimens. A signed portrait from Carver to Miller (1938) is included. Additionally, there are two typed letters dated 1943 from Rackham Holt to Miller. Holt, who was the...