Violinist Grisha Goluboff and Henry Ford, 1934-1938

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Artifact Overview

Henry Ford lent some of his violins to promising young violinists. American prodigy Grisha Goluboff played Ford's 1703 Stradivari from about 1934 to 1938 at performing engagements in the United States and Europe. Henry Ford had lent the violin to Goluboff after Adolph Hitler demanded that Goluboff, son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, return the Guarneri violin lent to him by a German nobleman.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1934-1938

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.O.18949

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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in

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