25,000 Employees at the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant, circa 1912
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Artifact Overview
Thousands of Ford Motor Company employees posed at its Highland Park plant for this photograph in 1913. Ford published the photo in Ford Times, the company's magazine, and described it as "the largest specially posed photograph ever taken." Still, the 25,000 number on the postcard was exaggerated -- Ford employed closer to 15,000 people in the plant at the time.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic postcard
Subject Date
circa 1912
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
81.167.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in
Inscriptions
Text at top of postcard front:
25,000 Employees at the Ford Motor Co. Plant, Detroit, Mich.
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