Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925
THF117353 / Logging Operations with Tractor and Log Hauling Trailer, Michigan, 1925
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Artifact Overview
In pursuit of self-sufficient automobile manufacture, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company purchased over 313,000 acres of timberland for logging in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ford built a large lumber camp in Sidnaw, where well-fed, well-dressed, and well-housed lumberjacks like this worker harvested mature trees. The wood would be made into automobile parts at a plant 65 miles southeast.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
02 June 1925
Subject Date
1925
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Photographed by Ford Motor Company Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.270.P.833.42438
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: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in
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In 1919, Henry Ford began buying vast amounts of forestland in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These prime hardwood forests supplied the lumber used to create vehicle bodies and parts. Other products such as railroad ties, shipping containers and chemical byproducts were also made -- all to support Ford's automobile operations and his goal of manufacturing self-sufficiency.