Dearborn Independent Aaron Sapiro v. Henry Ford lawsuit collection, 1919-1929.

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Dearborn Independent Aaron Sapiro v. Henry Ford lawsuit collection, 1919-1929.

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The collection consists of four subseries. The Proceedings subseries, 1919-1925 (3.2 cubic ft.), includes depositions, exhibits, and court transcripts from legal cases involving cooperative farming organizations across the United States. The Correspondence and Investigators' Reports subseries, 1919-1925 (11.2 cubic ft.), consists of alphabetical subject files on agriculture and the development of farming cooperatives. The subseries also includes correspondence and reports from investigators hired by the Dearborn Independent to report on farming cooperatives and organizers in various regions of the United States. The Regional Reports subseries, 1926-1929 (18.4 cubic ft.), consists of court documents, proceedings, copies of subpoenas, depositions, affidavits, pleas, and responses from court cases across the country involving cooperative organizations. The Publications subseries, 1919-1927 (1.6 cubic ft.) includes selected issues of the Dearborn Independent, 1919-1927; Arkansas Rice News, 1922-1925; translated copies of Hebrew newspaper articles, 1927; American Cooperative Journal, 1920-1925, Cooperative Manager and Farmer, 1924-1926; Farmer's Elevator Guide, 1925; Journal of Cooperation, 1923-1925; as well as general government pamphlets and magazines, 1919-1927.

34.4 cubic ft.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Sapiro, Aaron 1884-1959

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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 ...