Chicago White Sox Players Tour the Willow Run Bomber Plant, June 1943

Artifact Overview

Players from the Chicago White Sox baseball team toured Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant on June 11, 1943. At peak production, the factory completed one B-24 Liberator airplane every 63 minutes. Americans considered it an industrial marvel. Other famous visitors to the plant included filmmaker Walt Disney and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

11 June 1943

Creators

Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department

Collection Title

General Photographs Series

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.833.P.78037

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 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Charter Township of Ypsilanti Photographic prints Photographs Interior views Baseball players Ford Motor Company. Willow Run Bomber Plant Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) Factories (Structures)