Henry Ford

We're celebrating our 90th birthday by looking, decade by decade, at significant additions to our collection. During the 1930s, we acquired the Wright Cycle Shop, a sweetmeat dish used by Alexander Hamilton, and a jacquard loom.

We’ve just digitized dozens of photos of the elaborate camping trips of Vagabonds, a quartet including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, businessman Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs.

We’ve just digitized about two dozen food boxes, cans, bottles, and jars dating from the 1920s to the 2000s, which formerly contained anchovies, oyster sauce, truffles, and more.

Rare collection of correspondence reflects the process of relocating Wright brothers’ buildings to Greenfield Village.

Enamored with the village greens he had seen in New England, Henry Ford envisioned Greenfield Village’s commons to be flanked by structures meant for public gatherings, such as a place of worship and a town hall.

Known as the “Golden Age of Illustration,” the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century were a prosperous time to be an artist in the business of illustration.

As part of The Henry Ford's 90th anniversary celebration, learn the intriguing story of Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation’s design by Detroit architect Robert O. Derrick.

Learn how a portable steam engine convinced Henry Ford that his future was in engineering, not farming — and how he tracked that same engine down 30 years later.

Learn about the very long connection between Henry and Edsel Ford and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, including performances at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair and weekly performances on the radio show Ford Sunday Evening Hour.

We’ve just digitized a few images related to the original Ford Motor Company Mack Avenue Plant, which is so significant to Ford history that it was reproduced, at a smaller scale, in Greenfield Village in 1945.