Henry Leland in His Office with Wilfred Leland, Jr., Detroit, Michigan, circa 1922
THF128003 / Henry Leland in His Office with Wilfred Leland, Jr., Detroit, Michigan, circa 1922
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Artifact Overview
Henry Leland grew up in Vermont and learned the importance of precision manufacturing in New England's state-of-the-art factories. He relocated to Detroit and produced Oldsmobile engines and gears before founding Cadillac Motor Car Company in 1902. Following a dispute with Billy Durant, whose General Motors corporation acquired Cadillac in 1909, Leland resigned and founded Lincoln Motor Company in 1917.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1922
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.15039
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: 10 in
Width: 8 in
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SetLincoln - Birth and Rebirth
- 23 Artifacts
Lincoln Motor Company was born in 1917 out of Henry Leland's patriotic desire to build airplane engines for the allied forces in World War I. After the armistice, Leland and his son Wilfred refashioned Lincoln into a high-end automaker. But a postwar recession forced the Lelands to sell to another father-son duo, Henry and Edsel Ford. Over the next 20 years, Lincoln grew into one of America's most admired luxury marques.