Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford at Firestone Homestead, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1936
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Henry Ford and tire magnate Harvey Firestone were longtime friends and business associates. From 1918 to 1924, they had gone on several camping trips with fellow "vagabonds" Thomas Edison and naturalist John Burroughs. When Ford visited Firestone at the old homestead near Columbiana, Ohio, (now in Greenfield Village) in 1936, the two legendary industrialists posed for photographs.
Henry Ford and tire magnate Harvey Firestone were longtime friends and business associates. From 1918 to 1924, they had gone on several camping trips with fellow "vagabonds" Thomas Edison and naturalist John Burroughs. When Ford visited Firestone at the old homestead near Columbiana, Ohio, (now in Greenfield Village) in 1936, the two legendary industrialists posed for photographs.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
16 September 1936
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
83.1.269
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5 in
Width: 7 in
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