Lunch at Gap Mills, West Virginia for the "Vagabonds" and Crew, 1918

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Artifact Overview

Between 1916 and 1924, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs embarked on a series of camping trips. They called themselves the Vagabonds, but they camped in style. Numerous support staff set up and took down camp, cooked, took photographs, and maintained the cars and equipment trucks. This candid photograph shows "The Party and Crew" eating lunch and relaxing by a creek in West Virginia.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

24 August 1918

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.34.1918.50

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: 5 in
Width: 7.5 in

Inscriptions

typed on back: Lunch at Gap Mills / The Party and Crew