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12,000 Ford Motor Company Employees outside the Highland Park Plant, 1913

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Artifact Overview

About 12,000 of Ford Motor Company's employees at its Highland Park plant posed for this photograph taken in 1913. Ford described it as the largest group photo ever taken up to that point -- and "the most expensive one, costing many thousands of dollars for employees' time and loss of production."

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1913

Creator Notes

Originally photographed by C. R. Vallin.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.24

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 in
Width: 10 in