Will Rogers in Ford Flivver Airplane #1, 1927
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Artifact Overview
Popular humorist Will Rogers posed in a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. The Flivver was Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a "Model T for the sky," a simple and affordable aircraft that anyone could fly. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, died in an unrelated airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1927
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.O.1228
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: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in
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