GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed with fungus illustration.
Carver is recognized for plant disease research as well as reviving the peanut industry. Substantive Autograph Letter Signed on Tuskegee Institute Stationery, 2pp on one 4to sheet, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, March 28, 1931. Carver discusses plant specimens with fungus spores in great detail including a small sketch on the second page of fungus on Austrian pea vine. "I found one short piece of Austrian pea vine with well developed fungus on it. Please look for vines, thoroughly dead with [illustration] all over the stems...On one stem of cow pea vine, I found a fungus, mature, that I have been looking for...I found what appears to be the same thing on all the peanut vines...." The illustration of the fungus appears on page 2 near the top. Carver wrote to Grady Porter and signed at the bottom the second page, "G. W. Carver."
Signed, "G. W. Carver," on the final line of the second page.
Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He was a research botanist and agricultural educator known as “The Peanut Man” in recognition of his research on peanut diseases which extended to other legumes and to sweet potatoes. He developed hundreds of peanut based products including peanut oil, but he missed out on inventing peanut butter.
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