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The Peanut Man; the life of George Washington Carver in story form / by Harry J. Albus.
LIBRA - Rare S417.C3 A55 1948 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albus, Harry J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943.
- Carver, George Washington.
- African American agriculturists--Biography.
- African American agriculturists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1948.
- Contents:
- Was traded for a horse
- Walked along in the garden
- Came not to do his own will
- Sought after wisdom
- Meets another man of God
- For the sake of his people
- Overcame the cotton weevil
- Got magic from a sweet potato
- Found God's will in a laboratory
- Heard the message of the peanut
- Told Congress what he heard
- And left behind an object lesson.
- Notes:
- "Set up and printed, November 1948. Eighth printing, November 1965."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Eighth printing, November 1965".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Albus, Harry J. Peanut man.
- OCLC:
- 526097
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