Miscellaneous Ford Motor Company Drawings collection, 1924-1940.

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Miscellaneous Ford Motor Company Drawings collection, 1924-1940.

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The collection is comprised of Ford Motor Company drawings with no known provenance. The collection includes a blueprint entitled "Negro School at Ways, Georgia," undated; a blackline print of the Ford Motor Company test track layout at Ford Airport, 1940; a pencil on linen drawing of the Ford family cemetery, 1931; and a blueprint entitled Standard Monogram for the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, 1924. There are also four drawings of the Highland Park Plant including one ink on linen (edges burned), one blueprint and two blueline prints. The drawings are a general plan, a schedule of buildings, a plat plan, and a plat plan for the railroad tracks, all undated. Also included are two blackline prints of the blast furnace, stockyard and dock at the Rouge River Plant, undated.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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