Tuskegee Institute
Interior view of chemistry laboratory-classroom with students at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver stands second from right, facing front framed by doorway, c.1902.
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George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an agricultural scientist, inventor, and educator at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Carver worked to produce accessible, usable research that would benefit farmers in the rural South, especially poor Black farmers.

Some of his innovations included the dissemination of informational brochures, creation of a mobile demonstration laboratory, promotion of alternative crops, and the utilization of natural alternatives to expensive commercial fertilizers. Researchers can view the Tuskegee Institute's collection of Carver's papers on microfilm, and his substantial correspondence in the Booker T. Washington Papers.

George Washington Carver papers in the Tuskegee Institute Archives
Agricultural scientist and inventor (1864?-1943).
Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress - African American Innovation, Invention, and Entrepreneurship in the Manuscript Division