Ford Motor Company photographs collection, 1890-1987 (bulk 1920-1955).

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Ford Motor Company photographs collection, 1890-1987 (bulk 1920-1955).

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The collection is comprised of three subgroups: Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1913-1971 (228.8 cubic ft.), Acc. 232, 270, 696, 721, 833, 1182, 1505, 1685; Engineering Photographic Department (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1918-1987 (194 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box), Acc. 34, 188, 189, 548, 1861; and Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, 1890-1980 (106.4 cubic ft. and 62 volumes), Acc. 1660, 1854, and 1859.

530.8 cubic ft., 1 oversize box, and 62 v.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7714917

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Motor Company. Archives.

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In 1951, Edgar Le Roy Bryant, Clara Ford's brother served notice that he would file a claim against the estate of Clara Ford based on the contention that Clara had promised she would leave her possessions to his family. The suit, asking for $10 million or more, proceeded until March 1955, when it was settled out of court for a relatively small amount of cash. From the description of Edgar L. Bryant vs. Clara Ford Estate records, 1901-1949. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 774597...

Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Dept.

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Ford family.

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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...

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, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...

Ford Motor Company. Photographic Dept.

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