File:Signature of George Washington Carver, from June 1922 Tuskegee Institute meteorological record.png

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This is the signature of George Washington Carver, professor at the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama. It appeared on a "Cooperative Observers' Meteorological Record" form created by Carver in June 1922, reporting the weather for the whole month of June. (It was hot -- average high temperature 91.3 degrees Fahrenheit.)

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Original publication: Submitted to US Weather Bureau on its form 1009.
Immediate source: ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/gw_carver_tuskegee/1922_jun.pdf

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June 1922

Author

George Washington Carver
(Life time: born 1860s, died 1943)

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The document itself, besides being created in 1922, is a U.S. Weather Bureau Form no. 1009 containing a tabular record of temperatures and winds, containing only a single sentence of prose about the weather.


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The entire page is in Wikimedia Commons here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:Tuskegee_Institute_Meteorological_Record_for_June_1922,_by_George_Washington_Carver.pdf

The current JPG file is just a small portion of the form, containing Carver's signature.

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