Experimental Electric Locomotive at Menlo Park Complex in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
THF716670 / Experimental Electric Locomotive at Menlo Park Complex 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.174.103
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
illustration board
Technique
Drawing (Image-making)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 12 in
Width: 17.875 in
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ArtifactExperimental Electric Locomotive Built by Thomas Edison at Menlo Park, N.J., 1880
This experimental machine built by Thomas Edison represented an early American attempt to design a non-battery electric locomotive. Fed by electricity sent through the rails, the locomotive operated over a three-mile track at Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, hauling passengers at speeds up to 40 mph. The locomotive and two cars were given to The Henry Ford in 1929.
ArtifactEdison Institute Museum and Village Guidebook, circa 1934