George Washington Carver (1865? – 1943)

Files relating to George Washington Carver
from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia

• Folder 306 of the Phil M. Donnelly, Papers, 1944-1957 (C2151)
  
  http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/invent/desc-mu.html#2151
  includes the "Programme of Carver Day Exercises" for a memorial honoring Carver at Tuskegee Institute, January 5, 1948 (4 pages).
• Folder 269 of the Allen McReynolds (1877-1960), Papers, 1842-1970 (C3605)
  
  http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/invent/3605.html
  contains correspondence between Richard Pilant, English professor at Lindenwood College, and McReynolds, Missouri state senator and a trustee of the State Historical Society of Missouri, regarding the possible purchase of the Carver birthplace. The correspondence is from January-February 1942 (5 pages).