Young Women at the Abraham Lincoln Statue outside the Ford Motor Company Lincoln Plant, 1944
THF121329 / Young Women at the Abraham Lincoln Statue outside the Ford Motor Company Lincoln Plant, 1944
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Artifact Overview
When Henry Leland established Lincoln Motor Company with his son Wilfred in 1917, he named it after the first man for whom he cast a presidential ballot: Abraham Lincoln. Leland named his earlier firm, Cadillac Motor Car Company, after the French explorer who founded Detroit. Henry Leland possessed a rare humility -- he formed two successful car companies and named neither after himself.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
29 November 1944
Subject Date
29 November 1944
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.833.81000
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: 8 in
Width: 10.938 in
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SetLincoln - Birth and Rebirth
- 23 Artifacts
Lincoln Motor Company was born in 1917 out of Henry Leland's patriotic desire to build airplane engines for the allied forces in World War I. After the armistice, Leland and his son Wilfred refashioned Lincoln into a high-end automaker. But a postwar recession forced the Lelands to sell to another father-son duo, Henry and Edsel Ford. Over the next 20 years, Lincoln grew into one of America's most admired luxury marques.