Service Attendant Showing Customer Visor Mirror, January 1938

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Artifact Overview

Visor mirrors allowed motorists to check their hair, makeup or personal appearance while on the move. In the 1930s, Ford Motor Company and its dealers sold aftermarket vanity mirrors -- either the mirror by itself or, for cars not already equipped with sun visors, a mirror and visor packaged together.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

03 January 1938

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.69661

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.000 in
Width: 11.000 in

Service Attendant Showing Customer Visor Mirror, January 1938