President Harding Dining with the "Vagabonds" during a Camping Trip, 1921
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Between 1916 and 1924, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, calling themselves the Vagabonds, embarked on a series of camping trips. This image, from 1921, shows the Vagabonds (minus Burroughs, who had died earlier in the year) dining with family and friends near Hagerstown, Maryland. One of their friends at the table is President Warren G. Harding.
Between 1916 and 1924, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, calling themselves the Vagabonds, embarked on a series of camping trips. This image, from 1921, shows the Vagabonds (minus Burroughs, who had died earlier in the year) dining with family and friends near Hagerstown, Maryland. One of their friends at the table is President Warren G. Harding.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
24 July 1921
Keywords
United States, Maryland, Hagerstown
Anderson, William F. (William Franklin), 1860-1944
Edison, Mina Miller, 1865-1947
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Firestone, Elizabeth Parke, 1897-1990
Firestone, Harvey S., 1898-1973
Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938
Firestone, Idabelle, 1874-1954
Firestone, Russell Allen, 1901-1951
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.189.1522
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: 4 in
Width: 9.25 in
Inscriptions
writing on back reads: Hagerstown, Md. 1921 President Harding is shown with the camping party. From l to r, Bishop Anderson, Harvey Firestone, George B. Christian, Jr., Mina, Thomas Edison, Clara, Pres. Harding, Idabelle, Henry, Lulah Anderson, Edsel Ford, Elizabeth Parke Firestone, Harvey Firestone, Jr. Russell A. Firestone
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