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

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
Ford Motor Company Ship "Oneida" at New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1924