Aerial View of Ford Rotunda, the Rouge Plant and Administration Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1939

THF144719 / Aerial View of Ford Rotunda, the Rouge Plant and Administration Building, Dearborn, Michigan, 1939
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Artifact Overview

The Rotunda was built for the Ford Motor Company exhibition at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. It was later rebuilt in Dearborn, Michigan, where it served as a hospitality center for tourists from 1936 to 1962. This photograph shows the Rotunda in its second and final home -- across from the Administration Building at Ford's River Rouge Plant.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

23 January 1939

Subject Date

23 January 1939

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.71349

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: 8.188 in
Width: 11 in

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