Mattox Family Home Installation Opening Celebration in Greenfield Village, August 1991

THF250585 / Mattox Family Home Installation Opening Celebration in Greenfield Village, August 1991

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

08 August 1991

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.2469

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10.000 in
Width: 8.125 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Photographic prints Photographs African Americans Houses Installations (Exhibitions) Open-air museums Openings (Events) Relocated buildings and structures Bowles, Charles Skramstad, Harold, 1941- Mattox Family Home Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village

Artifact
Mattox Family Home
Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."