Edsel Ford and Eleanor Ford with Their Children, circa 1938

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Artifact Overview

Edsel Ford (1893-1943), son of automotive industrialist Henry Ford, moved with his family into a new Albert Kahn-designed home they named Gaukler Point in Grosse Pointe Shores in 1929. Here he and his wife Eleanor pose with their four children Henry, Benson, Josephine and William at the family estate, about 1938.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1938

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.3570

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: 3.75 in
Width: 5 in

Inscriptions

Typing on paper adhered to bottom of image reads: Family pix taken in late 1930's, perhaps 1938, at the Edsel Ford home. Left to right: Edsel Ford, Mrs. Edsel Ford, Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Josephine Ford, and William Clay Ford. Stamped "FILE COPY DO NOT REMOVE"
Edsel Ford and Eleanor Ford with Their Children, circa 1938