Administrative files subgroup, 1948-1977.

Ford Motor Company. Archives. Oral History Section.

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Owen W. Bombard, born in 1922 in Au Sable Forks, New York, received undergraduate and masters degrees from New York State College. While working towards a PhD at Columbia University, he trained with Allan Nevins in the Oral History Research Office. Bombard was hired by the Ford Motor Company Archives in 1950 to head an Oral History Section designed to enrich the historical record already housed in the newly formed Ford Motor Company Archives. The mission of the section, according to a 1952 Bomba...

Ford Motor Company. Archives.

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In 1951, Edgar Le Roy Bryant, Clara Ford's brother served notice that he would file a claim against the estate of Clara Ford based on the contention that Clara had promised she would leave her possessions to his family. The suit, asking for $10 million or more, proceeded until March 1955, when it was settled out of court for a relatively small amount of cash. From the description of Edgar L. Bryant vs. Clara Ford Estate records, 1901-1949. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 774597...

Bombard, Owen W., 1922-

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Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...

Henry Ford (Organization). Benson Ford Research Center

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The Benson Ford Research Center of The Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company Archives jointly manage the historical records of the Ford Motor Company through the Ford Historical Resources Collaborative. The publicly accessible records, which are available through the Benson Ford Research Center, include archival records, printed material, photographs, graphics, audio files and video files. To maintain a comprehensive record of Ford Motor Company, the Benson Ford Research Center initiated in 2007...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969

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Frank Ernest Hill, under the auspices of Columbia University, collaborated with Allan Nevins in the 1950s on the first two volumes of a comprehensive history of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company. He co-authored a third volume. From the description of Frank Ernest Hill papers, 1950-1966. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 53929808 Journalist, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Ernest Hill : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the...

Ford Rotunda (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Ford family.

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Ford Motor Company. Research and Information Department.

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Edmunds, Henry Everett, 1912-1982

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Archivist and director of the Ford Archives, Dearborn, Mich. From the description of Address, 1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70943772 ...

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 ...

Mills, A.K. 1902-1954.

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Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Sears, Winthrop, 1918-2000.

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