Ford Motor Company landscape awards collection, 1960-1967.

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Ford Motor Company landscape awards collection, 1960-1967.

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The Ford Motor Company Landscape Awards collection consists of one photograph album and four award certificates. The photograph album was created by the Garden Club of Dearborn and submitted to the Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan in 1960 as part of the former's nomination of Ford Motor Company for a landscaping award. It contains photographs depicting street and aerial views of landscaping at Ford Motor Company's Central Office Building (now called the World Headquarters Building) and the Ford Division Building (now the NAAO Building), as well as a cover letter, building and grounds charts, and plant variety listings. Awards were presented to Ford Motor Company by the following Dearborn-area garden and landscape clubs: Michigan Horticultural Society; Michigan Division of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, Inc., Dearborn Branch; and Federated Garden Clubs of Michigan, Inc.

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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...