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Henry Ford: On the Way to the Model T

20 artifacts in this set

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This Expert Set was compiled in 2013 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry Ford’s birth.

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Henry Ford Driving His Quadricycle in Detroit, Michigan, 1896

Photographic print

This photograph shows Henry Ford, age 33, with his first gasoline-powered vehicle in October of 1896. He built the Quadricycle with help from some friends in a shed behind a house he and his wife, Clara, rented.