Henry Ford's historical questionnaire collection, 1929-1931.

Humberstone, James

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While a senior at the Henry Ford Trade School in 1927, James Humberstone came to Henry Ford's attention through articles Humberstone wrote for the school newspaper, The Artisan. Less than a year later, he was curator of Ford's vast collection of antiques and Americana then in storage in the old Dearborn Tractor Plant. Although Humberstone had no training for such work, he was soon responsible for planning the layout and arrangement of the collection in the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford). ...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Edison Institute.

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Cordell, Harold, 1881-1969.

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Henry Ford (Organization)

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