Archives vertical file, circa 1929-ongoing.

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Archives vertical file, circa 1929-ongoing.

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The Archives Vertical File, arranged alphabetically by topic, is an intentionally assembled collection of predominately printed material on a wide variety of subjects related to Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company, and the automobile industry. The bulk of the Archives Vertical File focuses on Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company including subjects such as Henry and Clara Ford's ancestors and descendants, and other relatives; Henry Ford's residences and properties such as Fair Lane and Wayside Inn; Henry Ford's friends including Thomas Edison and family, Harvey Firestone and family, and other notable individuals; Henry Ford's personal interests including automobile racing, aviation, camping, education, historic preservation, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford), soybeans, and village industries; Ford Motor Company's activities, anniversaries, buildings, defense production during World War I and World War II, domestic and international plants, divisions, employees, executives, products, public relations, rubber plantations in Belterra and Fordlandia, and subsidiaries. Also included is material on automobile models produced by competitive automobile manufacturing companies, both domestic and foreign; the automobile industry's 100th anniversary; people who have signifantly impacted the automobile industry; and worlds fairs and automobile exhibitions.

48 cubic ft. and 3 oversize boxes.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Village Industries.

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Henry Ford (Organization)

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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, 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 ...

Wayside Inn (Sudbury, Mass.)

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Ford Rotunda (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987

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For information on the Fords, see an encyclopedia. For information on Cumming see his papers at the Clarke. A copy of the book by Bennett is also available at the Clarke. From the description of Correspondence, 1967. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43884289 ...

Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

Ford family.

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Firestone family.

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Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant

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Ford, Bill, 1957-

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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...

Henry Ford Trade School

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Henry Ford believed that a working knowledge of industrial arts was the most practical knowledge a young man could have. To this end, Ford established several schools where he could offer a technical education that would prepare people for work in industry. His first and major trade school was begun in Highland Park, Michigan in 1916 adjacent to Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, opening with six boys and one instructor. Frederick E. Searle was appointed superintendent. Classes not only e...

Bryant family.

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Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.)

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