Ford Motor Company Ship "Oneida" at New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1924
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Artifact Overview
In the 1920s, Henry Ford assembled a fleet of cargo carriers, ocean-going ships, barges, tugboats and canal boats to bring raw materials to or take finished products from his new manufacturing complex on the Rouge River. The Oneida, a small ocean-going freighter acquired in 1923, carried automobile parts to Ford plants along America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and to foreign plants in South America and Europe.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1924
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.140
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: 10.5 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in black ink on front side of image:
New Orleans
Ink stamp on back of image reads:
PHOTOGRAPHS / FROM H. J. HARVEY / 309 ST. CHARLES ST. / NEW ORLEANS, LA
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