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R         Buskett, Evans W. (Evans Walker), b. 1874

1088                Letters, 1937.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

These are two letters, dated 5 April and 2 June 1937, from Evans W. Buskett, a chemist and metallurgist at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri, to A. F. Wilson, president of Stillfilm, Inc., in Los Angeles, California.  The letters deal with the selection of images for educational filmstrips.

 

Evans Walker Buskett was born in St. Louis in 1874.  In 1895 he earned a B.S. degree and a Certificate of Proficiency in assaying from the University of Missouri School of Mines at Rolla.  In 1907 he was awarded a Metallurgical Engineer degree from the same institution.  He estab­lished himself in the Tri-State Mining District in Joplin as a teacher and consultant.

 

The exact assignment referred to in the letters is not clear, but Buskett appears to have been acting as a consultant in the sciences on educational filmstrips for elementary-level students.

 

Buskett also was a published songwriter.  He wrote the words and music to “Pick Up the Sunshine,” which was published by the Tolbert R. Ingram Music Company of Denver, Colorado, in 1910.

 

 

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