Clara Ford and Henry Ford Dancing, 1924

THF96815 / Clara Ford and Henry Ford Dancing, 1924
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Artifact Overview

In the mid-1920s, when Henry Ford decided to revive the traditional dances of his youth, he held an old-fashioned dancing party in the barn at the Dearborn, Michigan, farm where he grew up. This party -- likely the Halloween dance held at the Ford farm in 1924 -- was among the first of many old-fashioned dances Ford would host over the next twenty years.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1924

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.3196

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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in

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Clara Ford and Henry Ford Dancing, 1924