Women Workers Assembling Magnetos at the Highland Park Plant, circa 1913

THF99642 / Women Workers Assembling Magnetos at the Highland Park Plant, circa 1913
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Artifact Overview

Ford's Model T flywheel magneto generated the electricity that ignited the gasoline-air mixture inside the engine's cylinders. At the Highland Park plant, the coil-manufacturing department employed some women for the assembly of magnetos. The workers wound wire around the iron cores and placed the assembled parts into wooden boxes.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1913

Creator Notes

Attributed to Ford Motor Company Photographic Department

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.158

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in

Inscriptions

On verso, stamped in ink: Photo By FORD MOTOR CO. CENTRAL STAFF PHOTOGRAPHIC Dearborn, Michigan.
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