Spooner & Wells Highland Park Plant photographs collection, 1913.

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Spooner & Wells Highland Park Plant photographs collection, 1913.

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The Spooner & Wells Highland Park Plant photographs collection is comprised primarily of photographs of the interior of Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant in 1913. The images depict detailed machine operations on Model T parts and assembly and other operations performed in the plant just before the advent of the moving assembly line. The collection also includes photocopies of American Machinist articles where the images were printed. The images are annotated with reference numbers that lead to more detailed description of the photographs in Argus, an internal Benson Ford Research Center database.

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Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant

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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...

Spooner & Wells

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The photographs in the Spooner & Wells Highland Park Plant photographs collection were taken for Fred H. Colvin, editor of the American Machinist by the Detroit based firm, Spooner & Wells. Colvin visited plants across the country for more than thirty years studying factory operations, eventually inspecting nearly every automobile plant in the United States. He spent ten days at Ford's Highland Park Plant in 1913. Many of the photographs in the collection appeared in American Machinist f...

Spooner & Wells

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The photographs in the Spooner & Wells Highland Park Plant photographs collection were taken for Fred H. Colvin, editor of the American Machinist by the Detroit based firm, Spooner & Wells. Colvin visited plants across the country for more than thirty years studying factory operations, eventually inspecting nearly every automobile plant in the United States. He spent ten days at Ford's Highland Park Plant in 1913. Many of the photographs in the collection appeared in American Machinist f...