Family at Clara Bryant Ford's Burial, Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, 1950

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Artifact Overview

Clara Ford died on September 29, 1950. The wife of the famous automobile pioneer and American industrialist, Henry Ford, had suffered a heart attack earlier in the year and her health had steadily declined. Family buried her next to her husband in the Ford family cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

02 October 1950

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.93782.15

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: 9.375 in

Family at Clara Bryant Ford's Burial, Ford Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, 1950