Engineering Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1918-1987.

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Engineering Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1918-1987.

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The subgroup is comprised of the following series: Photographs for the Company series, 1918-1954 (100 cubic ft.) Acc. 189; Photographs for Henry Ford series, 1929-1987 (91.6 cubic ft.), Acc. 188, 548, 1861; and Topical Albums for Henry Ford series, 1918-1930 (2.4 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box), Acc. 34.

194 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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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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