Henry and Clara Ford's Former Home on Bagley Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, Taken by Henry Ford, 1898

Summary

From late 1893 to mid-1897, Henry and Clara Ford rented the left-side half of this duplex house at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit. It was in the kitchen here where the couple tested Henry's first gasoline-powered engine in December 1893, and it was in the shed behind the house where Henry finished his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in June 1896.

From late 1893 to mid-1897, Henry and Clara Ford rented the left-side half of this duplex house at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit. It was in the kitchen here where the couple tested Henry's first gasoline-powered engine in December 1893, and it was in the shed behind the house where Henry finished his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in June 1896.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1898

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.1277

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 4.5 in

Width: 3.75 in

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