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- Mattox Family Home - Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- 1930-1939
- Collections - Artifact
Mattox Family Home
Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, 1991 - Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- 1991
- Collections - Artifact
Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, 1991
Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, circa 1945 - Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- circa 1945
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Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, circa 1945
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, March 1945 -
- March 05, 1945
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Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, March 1945
- Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935 - Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- circa 1935
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Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935
Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935 - Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- circa 1935
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Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935
Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935 - Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935
Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent African Americans' progress from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Current interpretation presents Mattox family life from the 1930s.
- Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935 - Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent the progress of African Americans from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Henry Ford can be seen at right.
- circa 1935
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Mattox Family Home at Its Original Site, Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1935
Henry Ford brought this house to Greenfield Village in 1943, one of a group of buildings to represent the progress of African Americans from bondage through emancipation to world recognition. Later research revealed that this home belonged to the Mattoxes, a land-owning African-American family--not a white plantation overseer, as Ford had believed. Henry Ford can be seen at right.
- Portrait of Amos Mattox, circa 1910 -
- July 03, 1992
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Portrait of Amos Mattox, circa 1910
- Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, 1991 - Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- August 28, 1991
- Collections - Artifact
Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, 1991
Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."