Photographs for Henry Ford series, 1918-1987.

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Photographs for Henry Ford series, 1918-1987.

The series is comprised of three subseries: Personal for Henry Ford photographs subseries, 1918-1950 (87.6 cubic ft.) Acc. 189; Mary-Martha Chapel wedding photographs subseries, 1940-1945 (2 cubic ft.), Acc. 1861; and Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad photographs subseries, 1922-1923 (2 cubic ft.), Acc. 548.

91.6 cubic ft.

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Henry Ford (Organization). Henry Ford Museum.

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Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village.

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Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Dept.

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Henry Ford maintained his office in the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory rather than at the Rouge River Plant. Proximity to Engineering Photographic Department photographers was a key factor in the development of a separate run of photographs that primarily, although not exclusively, documents Henry's personal activities. The series was begun in 1929, the same year the Edison Institute and Greenfield, an early American village (now The Henry Ford) were dedicated, and largely reflects Henry's anti...

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 family.

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