Henry Ford Building a Dam with Leonard and Raymond Firestone and Others, Columbiana County, Ohio, August 1918
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Henry Ford watched as Leonard and Raymond Firestone, sons of tire magnate and Ford confidant Harvey Firestone, built a dam of stones with their friends. No doubt the boys' project reminded Ford of his own youthful exploits. As a schoolboy, Ford once dammed a small stream -- to the dismay of the farmer whose potato field he flooded.
Henry Ford watched as Leonard and Raymond Firestone, sons of tire magnate and Ford confidant Harvey Firestone, built a dam of stones with their friends. No doubt the boys' project reminded Ford of his own youthful exploits. As a schoolboy, Ford once dammed a small stream -- to the dismay of the farmer whose potato field he flooded.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
17 August 1918
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.34.1918.116
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: 3.5 in
Width: 5.75 in
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