Frank Guy Armitage with First Ford Model A (1903), Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
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Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Numerous celebrities joined Ford's 15 million reported exposition guests. This photograph shows Frank Guy Armitage, a well-known ventriloquist and impersonator of Charles Dickens characters, at a display featuring Ford's first automobile.
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Numerous celebrities joined Ford's 15 million reported exposition guests. This photograph shows Frank Guy Armitage, a well-known ventriloquist and impersonator of Charles Dickens characters, at a display featuring Ford's first automobile.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
04 September 1939
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.232.1169
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: 11 in
Width: 7.5 in
Inscriptions
Verso: 1074-A
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