Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1913-1971 (bulk 1920-1955).

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Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1913-1971 (bulk 1920-1955).

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The subgroup is comprised of the following series: General photographs series, 1913-1954 (178 cubic ft.), Acc. 833; Plant Engineering Construction photographs series, 1913-1953 (16.8 cubic ft.) Acc. 721; Renovated Assembly Plants photographs series, 1920-1951 (6 cubic ft.), Acc. 696; Northern Michigan Operations photographs series, 1920-1951 (8.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 270; Ford Rotunda lantern slides series, 1948-1962 (2.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 1182; World's Fair photographs series, 1933-1964 (15.2 cubic ft.), Acc. 232; Photographs for Ford News Bureau album series, 1946-1948 (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 1505; Photographic Library (Earle Harger) records series, 1938-1971 (1.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 1685.

228.8 cubic ft.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Motor Company. Photographic Dept.

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During the first decade of the Ford Motor Company's existance, the company employed various photographers and photographic firms to provide images for many of the same reasons which led to the establishment of the Photographic Department: to furnish a record of production methodology, to provide illustrations for publications, and to provide publicity for Henry Ford and his company. The first of two such departments, the Photographic Department, was formed in 1913 and was the sole department unt...

Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department.

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Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...

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 ...