Public Relations Research Library records series, 1903-1963 (bulk 1942-1955).

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Public Relations Research Library records series, 1903-1963 (bulk 1942-1955).

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The Public Relations Research Library records series includes four subseries. Manager of Research and Information Services records subseries, 1915-1963 (bulk 1953-1954) (0.8 cubic ft.), Acc. 465, contains link audit reports; Research Department newsletters compiled by the Research and Information Services staff regarding current public opinion surveys and economic indicator statistics from 1953 and 1954; a 1955 marketing research report; photographs of village industries; Fred L. Black correspondence regarding planning Henry Ford's seventy-fifth birthday party in 1938; and other miscellaneous newspaper clippings, news releases, correspondence, and pamphlets regarding Henry Ford. The Press Releases subseries, 1942-1955 (72.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 536, contains a rich collection of Ford Motor Company press releases documenting many Ford Motor Company activities. The subseries is organized into three subsubseries: Cataloged Press Releases Arranged by Subject subsubseries, Uncataloged Press Releases by Number subsubseries, and Uncataloged Press Releases by Subject subsubseries. The Press Releases and Newspaper Clippings subseries, 1938-1953 (bulk 1947-1952) (13.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 246, contains press releases arranged chronologically; press release log books arranged by subject; press releases from 1950 to 1952 arranged alphabetically by region, division or plant; and newspaper clippings. The Subject Files subseries, 1903-1952 (bulk 1942-1952) (19.2 cubic ft.), Acc. 378, contains news releases, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence regarding a range of subjects. Included in the files are records on labor relations, war production during World War II and the Korean War, engineering publicity, aviation, competitors literature, safety publications, automobile prices, and other general subject files.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Village Industries.

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Black, Fred L., 1891-1971

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Fred L. Black was always interested in aviation and received his pilot's license in 1928 while working for the Ford Motor Company. He had a keen interest in preserving the records of early fliers and approached Edsel Ford about creating a museum in connection with the Edison Institute Museum at Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was very interested in doing so and Fred Black then began acquiring photographs and printed materials about the Wright Brothers and their experiments with flight. He was in contac...

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 ...

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...