Davis Family Home on Cleophus Street, Lincoln Park, Michigan, circa 1945

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Artifact Overview

Cleoda Davis (1899-1964) migrated from North Carolina during World War I, where he found work at a shipbuilding company in River Rouge, Michigan. He later worked as a pipe fitter for a chemical company in Detroit. In the early 1920s, Davis married Della Louise Massey (1902-1998) of North Carolina. They raised their three children in Lincoln Park, Michigan.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Digital image

Subject Date

circa 1945

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2023.45.DS.2

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Jeff and Pat Davis.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)