William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
THF716540 / William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
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Artifact Overview
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Drawing (Visual work)
Subject Date
circa 1934
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.174.38
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
illustration board
Technique
Drawing (Image-making)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 13.5 in
Width: 17.5 in
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ArtifactWilliam Holmes McGuffey Birthplace
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.
ArtifactEdison Institute Museum and Village Guidebook, circa 1934