General photograph albums subseries, ca. 1924-1930.

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General photograph albums subseries, ca. 1924-1930.

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The General photograph albums subseries is comprised of two intact photograph albums and one album of detached pages. The latter, of the the Litogot Family, has been unbound and the images placed in folders. These are primarily portraits of various members of the Litogot family (Henry Ford's mother was born Mary Litogot) and images of the interior of the house built by Henry's uncle, Sapharia Litogot, in the year 1868. A second album holds thirty-two undated photographs of Santa Claus and the workshop Henry and Clara created on the grounds of their Fair Lane estate. There are views of the log cabin in the woods and Santa making toys, loading his sleigh, trimming an outdoor Christmas tree, and entering a chimney. A third album, called "Ships," consists of twenty-six prints of the Ford Motor Company twin feighters, the M/S Henry Ford II and the M/S Benson Ford. The Henry Ford II images include the launching of the ship in Lorain, Ohio in March of 1924 and dignitaries on the launching stand. Among those on the flag-draped platform were William B. Mayo, a chief Ford engineer, and engineer P. E. (Pete) Martin. The Benson Ford was launched in April of that same year. Images include a photograph of a line drawing and before and after pictures of the launch.

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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 Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Dept.

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Benson Ford (Ship)

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Ford, Benson, 1919-1978.

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Benson Ford, the second son of Edsel Bryan and Eleanor Clay Ford and grandson of Henry and Clara Ford, worked for Ford Motor Company in a number of different capacities before becoming a vice-president, director of its Lincoln-Mercury Division, and chairman of the company's Dealer Policy Board. Active in civic and community affairs, he was at various times a member of the board of trustees of the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford), Seaboard Properties Company, Henry Ford Hospital, among other...

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 ...

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Martin, Peter Edmund, 1882-1944.

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Ford family.

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Litogot family.

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Litogot, Sapharia, 1833-1878.

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Mayo, William Benson, 1866-1944.

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Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Henry Ford II (Ship)

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