Ford Motor Company public relations records collection, 1879-1987 (bulk 1942-1978).

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Ford Motor Company public relations records collection, 1879-1987 (bulk 1942-1978).

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The Ford Motor Company Public Relations records collection is comprised of five subgroups: William John Cameron records subgroup, 1896-1951 (8 cubic ft.), Acc. 44; Exhibition records subgroup, 1915-1965 (24.8 cubic ft.), Acc. 56, 554, 1109; Newspaper Clippings collection subgroup, 1879-1977 (8.4 cubic ft., 199 volumes, 52 microfilm reels, 9 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder), Acc. 7, 956, 984; Office of Public Relations (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1903-1987 (170.6 cubic ft., 11 oversize boxes, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 rolled item), Acc. 234, 240, 246, 247, 365, 378, 465, 536, 567, 573, 616, 720, 725, 739, 807, 822, 836, 841, 905, 1060, 1179, 1389, 1484, 1650, 1681, 1856; Press Release collection subgroup, 1946-1987 (14.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 1857.

228.6 cubic ft., 201 v., 52 microfilm reels, 21 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders, and 1 rolled item.

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. Office of Public Relations.

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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...

Cameron, William John, 1879-1955

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William John Cameron was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on December 29, 1878. At the age of nine his family moved to Detroit, Michigan. In 1904 he became a reporter and staff writer for the Detroit News. Cameron left the Detroit News in 1918 and joined the staff of the new Ford-sponsored weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and in 1920 he became editor. Meanwhile Cameron started assuming public relations tasks for Henry Ford. Cameron never had an official job title at Ford Motor Compan...

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 ...