1924 Ford Motor Company Institutional Message Advertising Campaign, "Pushing Aside Precedent"

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Artifact Overview

In 1924-25 the Ford Motor Company ran a series of sixteen dramatic advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman magazines. Rather than promoting the Model T specifically, the ads aimed to convey the company's scale and philosophy. When this ad appeared, the Rouge glass plant with its pioneering processes had been in operation a little over a year.

Artifact Details

Artifact

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Date Made

1924

Subject Date

1924

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.19.603

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 17.25 in
Width: 22.5 in

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    In 1924-25, Ford Motor Company ran a series of sixteen dramatic advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman magazines. More in the vein of public relations statements than advertising, the campaign was designed to increase public awareness of the company's wide-ranging activities and explain its overall mission, rather than promote the Model T specifically.
1924 Ford Motor Company Institutional Message Advertising Campaign, "Pushing Aside Precedent"