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Edsel Ford, Henry Ford, and G. A. Davidson with a Ford Building Model for the 1935 California-Pacific Exposition

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company was the major exhibitor at the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. The Ford Building, created by industrial design pioneer Walter Dorwin Teague, resembled two engaged gears and towered above more traditional exposition structures. Here Henry and Edsel Ford show off a model of the building to exposition chairman G. Aubrey Davidson.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

29 January 1935

Creators

Place of Creation

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.189.11435

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11.25 in

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