Ford properties subgroup, 1773-1951 (bulk 1900-1951).

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Ford properties subgroup, 1773-1951 (bulk 1900-1951).

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The Ford Properties subgroup, while representing only a fraction of Ford-owned properties, serves as an adjunct to property-related material in the Fair Lane subgroup. The subgroup is organized into five series. The Wayside Inn records series, 1890-1945 (15.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 111, includes documentation of the history of the Inn and its original owners, the Howe family; its purchase by Henry Ford in 1923; the restoration and renovation process; material relating to the Inn's operation; diaries maintained for schools and shops; and papers relating to the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb." The Richmond Hill Plantation records series, 1773-1954 (1.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 97, documents the history of the Richmond Hill region, including Fort McAllister, as well as daily activities of the Georgia operations, primarily between 1940 and 1951. The series entitled Ford Farms, Pequaming and Fair Lane records, 1914-1935 (1 volume and 1 oversize folder, Acc. 93, is comprised of architectural drawings and photographs. It includes an oversize photograph album of the town of Pequaming, Michigan; four ink on linen drawings of the Fair Lane entrance gates and lodge; and twenty blueline prints of Henry Ford Farms in Dearborn, Michigan. The Jens Jensen Drawings series, 1914-1921 (1 cubic ft. and 1 oversize print), Acc. 797, is a set of thirty landscape architectural prints prepared for the Fair Lane property. The Lincoln Memorial University records series, 1925-1933 (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 557, includes a copy of the warranty deed, printed material, and construction specifications relating to the university.

18.6 cubic ft., 1 volume, 1 oversize folder, and 1 oversize print.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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Lincoln Memorial University

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Howe family.

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Ford family.

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Ford Motor Company. Office of Henry Ford.

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In addition to the Dearborn, Michigan, Fair Lane Estate, Henry and Clara Ford owned properties for personal and business-related purposes in numerous states including Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Richmond Hill (Georgia) was a winter residence, where the Fords also focused on improving community life, schools, and medical care, while working toward increased agricultural productivity. The Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, America's oldest inn...

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 ...

Henry Ford Farms.

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Jensen, Jens, 1860-1951

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Mormon from Cottonwood Ward, Utah. From the description of History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 503404173 From the guide to the History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Jens Jensen was one of America's most visionary prairie school landscape architects. Born in 1860 in Denmark, Jensen emigrated to the United States in 1884, settling in Chicago, where he was hired a...

Wayside Inn (Sudbury, Mass.)

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