Courtyard of the Ford Rotunda Building in Dearborn, Michigan, 1937

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 until a devastating fire destroyed the building in 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This photo shows the central courtyard inside the building soon after it opened in 1937.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Lantern slide

Subject Date

1937

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

74.300.1182.1.45

Credit

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

Material

Glass (Material)
Paper tape

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 3.25 in
Width: 4 in

Inscriptions

Text at top of lantern slide: FORD PUBLIC RELATIONS PHOTOGRAPHIC Handwritten in ink on small oval paper sticker: 1-45
Courtyard of the Ford Rotunda Building in Dearborn, Michigan, 1937