Albert Smith publications and clippings collection.

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Albert Smith publications and clippings collection.

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The collection is comprised of printed material and clippings primarily relating to Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company. Includes a "Souvenir Book of Cartoons" from the first Detroit auto show hosted by the Detroit Automobile Dealer's Association (DADA), 1907-1908.

0.4 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 8195945

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Detroit Automobile Dealer's Association.

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Smith, Albert

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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...

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 ...