Lincoln Motor Car with Guider-Sweetland Ambulance Body, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 1923

THF98304 / Lincoln Motor Car with Guider-Sweetland Ambulance Body, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, 1923
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Artifact Overview

Buyers of earlier motorized ambulances could either purchase a complete vehicle or buy a motor and chassis from an automaker and have a separate body made by a specialty builder. This Lincoln ambulance had a body built by Guider-Sweetland of Detroit, Michigan. Ambulances, like limousines and hearses, were referred to as professional cars.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1923

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

00.1334.233

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in

Inscriptions

Text in image, front lower right corner: DESIGNED & BUILT BY / THE GUIDER-SWEET CO. / DETROIT Ink stamp on back upper left corner: SMITH BROTHERS. / Commercial Photographers. / Arcadia Bldg. Woodward & Stimson / DETROIT MICH