Scotch Settlement School in Greenfield Village, circa 1945
THF716584 / Scotch Settlement School in Greenfield Village, circa 1945
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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 1945
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.174.60
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
illustration board
Technique
Drawing (Image-making)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10.25 in
Width: 11.5 in
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Related Artifacts
ArtifactScotch Settlement School
Henry Ford attended this one-room schoolhouse from age seven to ten. Because of Ford's fondness for his teacher John Chapman, he not only followed Chapman to Miller School but also brought Chapman's house to Greenfield Village. This school, originally built in 1861 in Dearborn Township, was the first classroom of the Greenfield Village school system Henry Ford started in 1929.