Liberty Engine on Display with Flags, 1918

THF270495 / Liberty Engine on Display with Flags, 1918
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Artifact Overview

When the United States entered World War I, American automobile companies turned some of their manufacturing capacity to the production of war materiel. Buick, Cadillac, Ford, Lincoln, Marmon, and Packard all built Liberty V-12 aircraft engines for the Allied Powers. More than 20,000 Liberty engines were manufactured -- almost all of them by automakers.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1918

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.147

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 in
Width: 10 in