Boiler Used at the 1903-1904 Ford Mack Avenue Factory, Detroit, Michigan, Photographed July 1938

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Artifact Overview

In the late 1930s, the Valade Refrigerator Manufacturing Company occupied the Mack Avenue building that Ford Motor Company used as its first factory in 1903. The company offered to sell Henry Ford several large objects found in the building: a safe, a vault door and a boiler. Ford declined. He did purchased the safe later in 1941.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

July 1938

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.2643

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10.688 in
Width: 7.375 in

Boiler Used at the 1903-1904 Ford Mack Avenue Factory, Detroit, Michigan, Photographed July 1938