Clara Bryant Ford Lying in Repose at Her Home, Fair Lane, October 2, 1950
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Clara Ford died on September 29, 1950. The wife of the famous automobile pioneer and American industrialist, Henry Ford, had suffered a heart attack earlier in the year and her health had steadily declined. Clara was laid in repose at Fair Lane, her Dearborn, Michigan, home. Family buried her next to her husband in the Ford family cemetery in Detroit.
Clara Ford died on September 29, 1950. The wife of the famous automobile pioneer and American industrialist, Henry Ford, had suffered a heart attack earlier in the year and her health had steadily declined. Clara was laid in repose at Fair Lane, her Dearborn, Michigan, home. Family buried her next to her husband in the Ford family cemetery in Detroit.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
02 October 1950
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.188.74844
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: 4.25 in
Width: 5 in
Inscriptions
Stamp on verso: FMC Archive
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