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
Collection Title
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
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