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- Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940 - Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- April 12, 1940
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Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940
Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- Walt Disney and Ward Kimball Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1948 - Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. He traveled many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, which he visited twice in the 1940s. During his second trip in 1948, Disney posed for this portrait with one of his animators, Ward Kimball, in the village tintype studio.
- August 23, 1948
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Walt Disney and Ward Kimball Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1948
Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. He traveled many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, which he visited twice in the 1940s. During his second trip in 1948, Disney posed for this portrait with one of his animators, Ward Kimball, in the village tintype studio.
- Tintype of Joe Louis, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1935 - Seventeen-year-old Joe Louis got his start as an athlete and boxer in 1931 at the Brewster East Side Gymnasium in Detroit. He became world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937 and held the title until 1949. This autographed tintype of him was taken in Greenfield Village's Tintype Studio during a visit in 1935.
- October 15, 1935
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Tintype of Joe Louis, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1935
Seventeen-year-old Joe Louis got his start as an athlete and boxer in 1931 at the Brewster East Side Gymnasium in Detroit. He became world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937 and held the title until 1949. This autographed tintype of him was taken in Greenfield Village's Tintype Studio during a visit in 1935.
- The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, Photographed in Henry Ford Museum Theater, April 1958 - Irwin J. Clark made this hand-colored Tintype in April 1958. Clark was the Greenfield Village Tintypist from 1956 to 1968. It shows the Lincoln Chair on the theater stage of Henry Ford Museum. The Tintype was produced in preparation for a 1959 program commemorating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 1809.
- April 01, 1958
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The Chair in Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot at Ford's Theatre, Photographed in Henry Ford Museum Theater, April 1958
Irwin J. Clark made this hand-colored Tintype in April 1958. Clark was the Greenfield Village Tintypist from 1956 to 1968. It shows the Lincoln Chair on the theater stage of Henry Ford Museum. The Tintype was produced in preparation for a 1959 program commemorating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 1809.
- Tintype Portrait of Linton Wells and Fay Gillis Wells, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, May 2, 1940 - Constructed in 1929, the tintype studio was a popular destination for Greenfield Village visitors. Many celebrities and other well-known people also stopped in to have their pictures taken. Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator, journalist, and broadcaster, and Linton Wells, a foreign correspondent and radio news analyst, posed for this portrait in 1940. They autographed it "in appreciation of a most memorable visit."
- May 02, 1940
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Tintype Portrait of Linton Wells and Fay Gillis Wells, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, May 2, 1940
Constructed in 1929, the tintype studio was a popular destination for Greenfield Village visitors. Many celebrities and other well-known people also stopped in to have their pictures taken. Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator, journalist, and broadcaster, and Linton Wells, a foreign correspondent and radio news analyst, posed for this portrait in 1940. They autographed it "in appreciation of a most memorable visit."