Ford and Model T songs collection, 1910-1939

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Ford and Model T songs collection, 1910-1939

The collection is primarily comprised of sheet music with titles that relate to the Ford automobile and / or the Ford Model T automobile. Also included are audio recordings of "Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie," "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along," and "Since Henry Apologized to Me." There is also a folder of photographs of sheet music covers. Added to the collection in 2003 is a phonograph record entitled "Mose Allison sings and Plays V-8 Ford Blues."

1.2 cubic ft.

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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 ...

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...