President-Elect Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone in Fort Myers, Florida, 1929

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Artifact Overview

Four celebrities - politician Herbert Hoover, industrialist Henry Ford, inventor Thomas A. Edison, and businessman Harvey S. Firestone - relaxed together in Fort Myers, Florida, in February of 1929. The old friends had good cause for a reunion -- Edison was celebrating his 82nd birthday and Hoover had just been elected President of the United States.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

11 February 1929

Subject Date

11 February 1929

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.188.P.899

Credit

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

Material

Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in

President-Elect Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone in Fort Myers, Florida, 1929