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
Collection Title
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
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