Orchestra of Blind Veterans Playing at Weekly Dance, Dearborn Independent, April 1923

THF270852 / Orchestra of Blind Veterans Playing at Weekly Dance, Dearborn Independent, April 1923

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

1922-1923

Subject Date

1922-1923

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

91.98.177

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford R. Bryan.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.438 in
Width: 9.438 in

Keywords	United States, Maryland, Baltimore Newspapers Disabled veterans Musicians Vocational education World War, 1914-1918 Evergreen-Red Cross Institute for the Blind

Artifact
Dearborn Independent Newspaper for April 14, 1923
Henry Ford purchased The Dearborn Independent and published it under his name from 1919 to 1927. It served as a forum for Ford's views, free from other media outlets that had attacked his work and values and were outside his control. The Dearborn Independent covered world events, business and economic news, and fiction from noted authors. Sadly, it also served as an outlet for Ford's anti-Semitic sentiments. Between 1920 and 1922, the weekly paper ran a series of front-page articles that denounced all things Jewish. Even after this series, many articles contained anti-Jewish language. Though Ford later apologized and printed a retraction, these notoriously anti-Semitic editorials and articles forever tarnished the influential automaker's reputation.