Boiler Used at the 1903-1904 Ford Mack Avenue Factory, Detroit, Michigan, Photographed July 1938
THF250927 / 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
Collection Title
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
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ArtifactFord Motor Company (Mack Avenue Plant)
Henry Ford's third automobile company, formed in 1903, set up shop in a former wagon factory on Detroit's Mack Avenue. Ford's small crew assembled Model A cars from components made elsewhere. Within 18 months, Ford Motor Company moved to a larger facility on Piquette Avenue. This building is a replica about one-fourth the size of the original Mack Avenue plant.