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- Minute Book from Meetings of the Henry Ford Trade School Trustees, 1916-1929 -
- 1916-1929
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Minute Book from Meetings of the Henry Ford Trade School Trustees, 1916-1929
- Reproduction of Thomas A. Edison's Original Tinfoil Phonograph, circa 1920 -
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Reproduction of Thomas A. Edison's Original Tinfoil Phonograph, circa 1920
- Shop Theory, 1942 - Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.
- 1942
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Shop Theory, 1942
Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.
- Medal Presented to Henry Ford by the Students of the Henry Ford Trade School, 1941 - Henry Ford was not only recognized as an automotive industrialist; during his many years in the public eye he was recognized by many civic and corporate associations. The Henry Ford Trade School, founded in 1916, in the words inscribed on the medal, "provided training and privileges [for] thousands of boys who, otherwise, would have been denied such educational facilities."
- October 25, 1941
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Medal Presented to Henry Ford by the Students of the Henry Ford Trade School, 1941
Henry Ford was not only recognized as an automotive industrialist; during his many years in the public eye he was recognized by many civic and corporate associations. The Henry Ford Trade School, founded in 1916, in the words inscribed on the medal, "provided training and privileges [for] thousands of boys who, otherwise, would have been denied such educational facilities."
- Textbook, "Basic English," Henry Ford Trade School, Dearborn, Michigan, 1916 - Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.
- 1916
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Textbook, "Basic English," Henry Ford Trade School, Dearborn, Michigan, 1916
Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.