Model of Edison's Menlo Park Machine Shop at Ford Exhibition Building, New York World's Fair, 1939

Artifact Overview

Henry Ford firmly believed in the "practical educational value" of World's Fair exhibits. To help accomplish his education mission during the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, he highlighted the work of students attending his experimental schools. Here, boys from Henry Ford's Edison Institute Schools operated miniature machine replicas based on Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Machine Shop.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1939

Creators

Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.O.10973

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: 4.75 in
Width: 3.75 in

Keywords	United States, New York, New York, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Photographic prints Photographs Exhibitions World's fairs Ford Motor Company Menlo Park Machine Shop New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Machine shops Models (Representations)