The Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant and Employees, "12,000 of the 16,000 Workmen who Make Ford Cars," 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
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Originally photographed by C. R. Vallin of Highland Park, Michigan.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.1241
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Retouching
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Label seen in image in upper left corner reads:
12,000 of the 16,000 workmen who make / Ford Cars
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