Ford Motor Company tokens, coins, medallions, and badges collection, circa 1915-2001

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Ford Motor Company tokens, coins, medallions, and badges collection, circa 1915-2001

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The Ford Motor Company tokens, coins, medallions, and badges collection is an assembled collection of physical objects from various accessions. Numerous tokens, medallions, and similar objects were created to commemorate important anniversaries and milestones for Henry Ford, his family, and the Ford Motor Company. Other pieces, such as employee badges and some tokens used as "company money," originally had some official intended use and only later became collector's items. Many of the tokens were originally sold or given away at exhibitions such as the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. In addition to the objects (or in some cases images of the objects), the collection includes photocopies of articles on the history and description of various employee identification and security badges, tokens, coins, medals, and medallions, along with citations of sources of further information. The collection contains items from Accessions 491 and 1800.

0.4 cubic ft.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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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...