Curator Robert Koolakian with Lord Mountbatten and Group in Menlo Park Laboratory, Greenfield Village, April 8, 1972

THF115869 / Curator Robert Koolakian with Lord Mountbatten and Group in Menlo Park Laboratory, Greenfield Village, April 8, 1972

Artifact Overview

Lord Mountbatten was great-grandson of Queen Victoria, a British World War II hero and viceroy of India in 1947 during that country's partitioning and independence. In April 1972, he toured Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, accompanied by Henry Ford II and Edison Institute's president, Donald Shelley. The group stopped at Menlo Park Laboratory for a demonstration of the Edison phonograph.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

08 April 1972

Creators

Henry Ford (Organization). Photographic Department

Collection Title

Photographic Vertical File Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.B.61782.3

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in
Width: 8.25 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs Royalty (Nobility) Visiting Open-air museums Buildings (Structures) Laboratories Phonographs Celebrities Ford, Cristina, 1929-2001 Koolakian, Robert G. Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979 Menlo Park Laboratory (Dearborn, Mich.) Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village

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