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- Office and Storage for Microfilmed Engineering Drawings at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1951 -
- January 23, 1951
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Office and Storage for Microfilmed Engineering Drawings at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1951
- Retrieving Microfilmed Engineering Drawings in Storage at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1949 -
- May 24, 1949
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Retrieving Microfilmed Engineering Drawings in Storage at Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1949
- Donald A. Shelley, Executive Director, and Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, Examining Ford Archives Material after Arrival at Henry Ford Museum, January 18, 1965 - 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.
- January 18, 1965
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Donald A. Shelley, Executive Director, and Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, Examining Ford Archives Material after Arrival at Henry Ford Museum, January 18, 1965
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.
- May F. Hogan, George B. Catlin and James W. Bishop Correspondence and Photographs, November-December 1929 -
- November 1929-December 1929
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May F. Hogan, George B. Catlin and James W. Bishop Correspondence and Photographs, November-December 1929
- Archivist Win Sears and Co-workers in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1956 - As Ford Motor Company prepared for its 50th anniversary in 1953, staff established a corporate archive at founder Henry Ford's former estate in Dearborn, Michigan. (Ford and his wife Clara had passed away in 1947 and 1950, respectively.) The collection moved to another location in 1957 and would ultimately be housed at the Edison Institute--today known as The Henry Ford.
- November 12, 1956
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Archivist Win Sears and Co-workers in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1956
As Ford Motor Company prepared for its 50th anniversary in 1953, staff established a corporate archive at founder Henry Ford's former estate in Dearborn, Michigan. (Ford and his wife Clara had passed away in 1947 and 1950, respectively.) The collection moved to another location in 1957 and would ultimately be housed at the Edison Institute--today known as The Henry Ford.
- Owen Bombard Working on Oral History Project in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, 1953 - Historian Owen Bombard was hired by Ford Motor Company in 1950 to head an oral history project for the company's newly formed archives. Bombard interviewed more than 300 people who had known or worked with Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. Bombard's interviews provided a more complete picture of Ford Motor Company's first decades -- and of the Fords themselves.
- 1953
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Owen Bombard Working on Oral History Project in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, 1953
Historian Owen Bombard was hired by Ford Motor Company in 1950 to head an oral history project for the company's newly formed archives. Bombard interviewed more than 300 people who had known or worked with Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. Bombard's interviews provided a more complete picture of Ford Motor Company's first decades -- and of the Fords themselves.
- Photo Archivist Win Sears and Co-Worker in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, 1952-1957 -
- 1952-1957
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Photo Archivist Win Sears and Co-Worker in Ford Archives at Fair Lane Estate, Dearborn, Michigan, 1952-1957
- Donald A. Shelley, Executive Director, and Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, outside Henry Ford Museum, December 31, 1964 -
- December 31, 1964
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Donald A. Shelley, Executive Director, and Henry Edmunds, Archives Director, outside Henry Ford Museum, December 31, 1964
- A.K. Mills, August 1953 -
- August 24, 1953
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A.K. Mills, August 1953
- Memo from John B. Millis to Hank E. Edmonds regarding the "Bag of Genuine Dirt" from Crater of Diamonds, 1952-1959 -
- 1949-1958
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Memo from John B. Millis to Hank E. Edmonds regarding the "Bag of Genuine Dirt" from Crater of Diamonds, 1952-1959