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- Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation - Discover the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit! Explore American innovation with iconic exhibits like the Rosa Parks Bus & Wright Brothers' plane. Visit now!
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Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Discover the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit! Explore American innovation with iconic exhibits like the Rosa Parks Bus & Wright Brothers' plane. Visit now!
- Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation Map - Plan your visit to the Henry Ford Museum with our interactive map. Locate 22 exhibits including the Rosa Parks bus, presidential vehicles, and more.
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Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation Map
Plan your visit to the Henry Ford Museum with our interactive map. Locate 22 exhibits including the Rosa Parks bus, presidential vehicles, and more.
- New Walkways outside Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003 - By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- April 01, 2003
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New Walkways outside Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, April 2003
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
- Hallmark "Hallmark Archives Collection: Angel Friend" Christmas Ornament, 1997 - Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- 1997
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Hallmark "Hallmark Archives Collection: Angel Friend" Christmas Ornament, 1997
Already known for greeting cards, Hallmark introduced a line of Christmas ornaments in 1973. The company's annual release of an increasing array of ornaments revolutionized Christmas decorating, appealing to customers' interest in marking memories and milestones as well as expressing one's personality and unique tastes.
- Film Crew of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation in Greenfield Village, September 2019 - In 2019, The Henry Ford's staff and production partners filmed a story about tintype photography for the weekly television show, <em>The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation</em>. A modern-day tintypist used traditional methods to create tintype photographs of the cast -- Mo Rocca, the show's host, and Jeanine Head Miller, curator of domestic life -- and film crew outside the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio.
- September 13, 2019
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Film Crew of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation in Greenfield Village, September 2019
In 2019, The Henry Ford's staff and production partners filmed a story about tintype photography for the weekly television show, The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation. A modern-day tintypist used traditional methods to create tintype photographs of the cast -- Mo Rocca, the show's host, and Jeanine Head Miller, curator of domestic life -- and film crew outside the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio.
- Sperry-New Holland Catalog, "The Innovators," 1977 - For centuries, manufacturers have worked to perfect machinery that combines the three major steps of harvesting grain: reaping, or cutting the crop; threshing to loosen the grain from the chaff; and disposing of the straw while retaining the grain. Since self-propelled combines were introduced in the 1930s, competitors have produced ever-improving models. This catalog advertised a range of combines from Sperry Rand Corporation's New Holland Division.
- 1977
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Sperry-New Holland Catalog, "The Innovators," 1977
For centuries, manufacturers have worked to perfect machinery that combines the three major steps of harvesting grain: reaping, or cutting the crop; threshing to loosen the grain from the chaff; and disposing of the straw while retaining the grain. Since self-propelled combines were introduced in the 1930s, competitors have produced ever-improving models. This catalog advertised a range of combines from Sperry Rand Corporation's New Holland Division.
- Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, Examining Ford Archives on Arrival at Henry Ford Museum, December 31, 1964 - In 1964, the Ford Motor Company donated its archive to Edison Institute, with the records from the office of Henry Ford at its core. Housed in over 3,000 boxes and forming an unbroken run of correspondence from 1921 through 1952, the Engineering Lab Office Records are a remarkable group of materials that document more than thirty years of one of the world's great industrialists and his company.
- December 31, 1964
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Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, Examining Ford Archives on Arrival at Henry Ford Museum, December 31, 1964
In 1964, the Ford Motor Company donated its archive to Edison Institute, with the records from the office of Henry Ford at its core. Housed in over 3,000 boxes and forming an unbroken run of correspondence from 1921 through 1952, the Engineering Lab Office Records are a remarkable group of materials that document more than thirty years of one of the world's great industrialists and his company.
- Exhibition Catalog, "Please Be Seated: Fifty Years of Innovative Seating Design," 1984-1985 -
- 14 October 1984-05 January 1985
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Exhibition Catalog, "Please Be Seated: Fifty Years of Innovative Seating Design," 1984-1985
- "Innovations," Clip from Interview with Leonard Wood, October 24, 2010 - Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest active team in NASCAR. While other early teams treated pit stops like leisurely breaks for the driver, the Woods serviced their cars in a fast, choreographed procedure that helped win races and soon became standard. The Henry Ford interviewed members of the Wood family in 2010 at the team's museum in Stuart, Virginia.
- October 24, 2010
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"Innovations," Clip from Interview with Leonard Wood, October 24, 2010
Wood Brothers Racing is the oldest active team in NASCAR. While other early teams treated pit stops like leisurely breaks for the driver, the Woods serviced their cars in a fast, choreographed procedure that helped win races and soon became standard. The Henry Ford interviewed members of the Wood family in 2010 at the team's museum in Stuart, Virginia.
- Innovation Station in Henry Ford Museum, November 1991 -
- November 01, 1991
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Innovation Station in Henry Ford Museum, November 1991