Shipping Room of Ford Motor Company Piquette Plant, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1906

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Artifact Overview

This 1906 photograph shows fully assembled Model Ns at Ford Motor Company's Piquette Avenue Plant. The Model N -- the low-priced but smaller predecessor to the Model T -- represented Henry Ford's ambition to "[raise] the automobile out of the list of luxuries, and [bring] it to the point where the average American citizen may own and enjoy his automobile."

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1906

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.1022

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: 7.5 in
Width: 9.25 in