School Children and a Teacher outside Scotch Settlement School at Its Original Site, Dearborn Township, Michigan, 1896

THF245422 / School Children and a Teacher outside Scotch Settlement School at Its Original Site, Dearborn Township, Michigan, 1896

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1896

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.1853

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: 8.375 in
Width: 11.875 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Township Photographic prints Photographs Group portraits School children Schoolhouses Teachers Original sites Scotch Settlement School

Artifact
Scotch Settlement School
Henry Ford attended this one-room schoolhouse from age seven to ten. Because of Ford's fondness for his teacher John Chapman, he not only followed Chapman to Miller School but also brought Chapman's house to Greenfield Village. This school, originally built in 1861 in Dearborn Township, was the first classroom of the Greenfield Village school system Henry Ford started in 1929.