Fred Lee Black records series, 1929-1948.

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Fred Lee Black records series, 1929-1948.

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The Fred Lee Black records series contains a significant amount of correspondence and subject files documenting public relations activities sponsored by Ford Motor Company during the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair as well as correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, press releases, and interdepartmental memorandums regarding national defense, labor unions, and the 1941 Ford employee strike. Also included in the collection are copies of the abstract of proposals and articles of agreement between the Wright Brothers and the U.S. Army Signal Corps for one heavier-than-air flying machine; first day covers for stamps commemorating the historic trip of the Edison Train to promote the film "Young Tom Edison" and other key events in Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan. It is unclear how the materials dated after 1942 became a part of Black's records.

7.6 cubic ft.

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