Letter from Wetmore Hodges to Edsel Ford regarding Ford's 1924 Institutional Message Advertising Campaign, April 12, 1924

THF95568 / Letter from Wetmore Hodges to Edsel Ford regarding Ford's 1924 Institutional Message Advertising Campaign, April 12, 1924 / page 1
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Artifact Overview

In 1924-25 the Ford Motor Company ran a series of sixteen "institutional" 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 to explain its overall mission.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Letter (Correspondence)

Date Made

07 September 1923

Creator Notes

Written by Wetmore Hodges of American Radiator Company, New York, New York

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.572.8

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Typewriting

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 8.5 in

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