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Title:
George Washington Carver [videorecording] / Vignette Films.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Iowa State University,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (10 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Carver, George Washington,--1864?-1943.
Agriculturists--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Cotton--United States.
Boll weevil--United States.
Other Authors:
Vignette Films.
Notes:
"4-4037"--Disc label. Orginally produced as a 16 mm film in 1967.
Summary:
Shows George Washington Carver at work in his laboratory and gives a re-enactment of his childhood in Missouri, Fort Scott, Kansas, his home in Iowa at Simpson College and Iowa State, and his move to Tuskegee. Also shows people working in cotton fields and tenant farmers. Describes the boll weevil problem and Carver's use for peanuts.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)212374892
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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