Ford in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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The Upper Peninsula of Michigan meant business and pleasure alike to Henry Ford. Ford Motor Company operated sawmills and factories throughout the area that supplied lumber and finished parts to the Rouge. Mr. Ford and his wife, Clara, enjoyed summer vacations in the region’s mild climate and natural beauty.
E. G. Kingsford, Ford Dealer, Iron Mountain, Michigan, circa 1918
Ford Motor Company Iron Mountain Plant Sawmill and Power House, circa 1920
1922 Lincoln Vehicle Used by Henry Ford on Camping Trips
The Vagabonds -- Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone -- used this truck on their 1923 camping trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Built on a 1922 Lincoln chassis, the vehicle served as a mobile kitchen. It carried food and cooking utensils used to prepare the elaborate meals that the friends enjoyed together each day.
View ArtifactSupport Vehicles and Service Crew on a "Vagabonds" Camping Trip, L'Anse, Michigan, 1923
Ford Motor Company Plant, Pequaming, Michigan, 1924
Lumber Mill at Ford Plant in Pequaming, Michigan, 1924
1924 Ford Motor Company Institutional Message Advertising Campaign, "For the People and Posterity" - 1
Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925
Logs Pulled by a Fordson Tractor, Ford Lumbering Operations, Sidnaw, Michigan, 1926
Dry Goods Store, Ford Motor Company Plant, Pequaming, Michigan, 1926
Ford Motor Company Lumbering Operations at Keating Spur, L'Anse, Michigan, 1926
Fordson Tractors Lined Up Inside Building at Keating Spur, L'Anse, Michigan, 1926
Fordson Tractor Equipped with Snow Motor Screws, Keating Spur, L'Anse, Michigan, 1926
Fordson Tractor Loading Logs with Double Drum Hoist at L'Anse, Michigan, 1926
Chefs in Lumber Camp Kitchen, Sidnaw, Michigan, 1926
E. G. Kingsford Ford Dealership, Iron Mountain, Michigan, circa 1927
Copper Tray Presented to Henry Ford by Michigan's Upper Peninsula Ford Dealers, 1915-1945 - 1
Henry Ford's Yacht "Sialia" Docked at Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1927 - 1
Henry Ford purchased Sialia in 1917 and used the yacht on various business and pleasure trips to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In 1920 Ford sailed to Escanaba to explore his lumber operations in nearby Iron Mountain. In 1923 Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone crossed Lake Michigan from Traverse City to Escanaba aboard Sialia on one of their Vagabond camping trips.
View ArtifactBig Bay Sawmill and Surrounding Buildings From the Water at Big Bay, Michigan, circa 1930
Big Bay Hotel, General Store and Surrounding Buildings at Big Bay, Michigan, circa 1930
Operating Floor of Wood Distillation Division, Ford Iron Mountain Plant, Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1935
Bagging Charcoal Briquets Produced at the Ford Motor Company Iron Mountain Plant, 1935
Edward Kingsford, Henry Ford, Fred Johnson and Alex Boivin with Group of Children in Alberta, Michigan, 1938
Ford Motor Company Iron Mountain Plant Glider Production Workers, 1942
Workmen Assembling Gliders, Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1942
Workmen Covering Glider Wing with Fabric, Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1942
Workers on Assembly Line for Glider Production, Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1942
Drawing of World War II Gliders Made at the Ford Iron Mountain Plant, Iron Mountain, Michigan, circa 1943
Construction of Ford Motor Company Plant in Big Bay, Michigan, 1944
Henry Ford Feeding Deer at Huron Mountain Club, Michigan, circa 1945
Interior View of Sawmill at Ford Iron Mountain Plant, Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1946
View of Rear Tire Carrier of Woody Station Wagon, 1946
Ford Motor Company Ship "Henry Ford II" at the Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1949
Henry Ford II, named for Henry and Clara Ford’s oldest grandchild, was built in 1924 to carry iron ore from Lake Superior to Ford Motor Company’s blast furnaces at the Rouge. In the 1930s, Mr. and Mrs. Ford traveled each summer in one of the freighter’s staterooms to their cabin in the Huron Mountain Club, near Marquette, Michigan.
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