12,000 Ford Motor Company Employees outside the Highland Park Plant, 1913
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Artifact Overview
About 12,000 of Ford Motor Company's employees at its Highland Park plant posed for this photograph taken in 1913. Ford described it as the largest group photo ever taken up to that point -- and "the most expensive one, costing many thousands of dollars for employees' time and loss of production."
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1913
Creators
Creator Notes
Originally photographed by C. R. Vallin.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.833.24
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 in
Width: 10 in
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