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Workers Assembling the Geodesic Dome Roof on Ford Rotunda Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1953

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 to 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. The Rotunda was renovated and reopened to the public in 1953. The renovations included a geodesic dome -- seen being assembled in this image -- designed by Buckminster Fuller.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

June 1953

Creator Notes

Photographed by Fisher for Ford Motor Company Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.105424

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: 8.25 in