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(SCIENCE.) George Washington Carver calendar issued shortly before his death. Broadside, 16 x 10 inches, with mounted color photographic image of Carver and 12 small calendar sheets; light folds to photograph, otherwise minor wear. Seneca, SC, [1942]
This calendar was ordered as an advertising piece by the Peek & Addison mortuary in Seneca, SC. It features a large photographic image of the aged scientist, tipped over a short biography, with monthly calendar pages for 1943 stapled below. Carver died just five days into the new year in 1943.
