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- Protest Poster, "Right Now, Today, Every Tomorrow! Justice," 2020 - In June 2020, Detroit-based non-profit letterpress organization Signal-Return responded to the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd by producing free protest posters for the community. These posters were made in solidarity with the principles behind the Black Lives Matter movement and distributed with the intent that they be carried in local protests or displayed in visible places.
- 2020
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Protest Poster, "Right Now, Today, Every Tomorrow! Justice," 2020
In June 2020, Detroit-based non-profit letterpress organization Signal-Return responded to the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd by producing free protest posters for the community. These posters were made in solidarity with the principles behind the Black Lives Matter movement and distributed with the intent that they be carried in local protests or displayed in visible places.
- Composition Paper from a School Desk, 1940-1960 -
- 1940-1960
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Composition Paper from a School Desk, 1940-1960
- Edison Institute School Students in the Dance Room of Ford Engineering Laboratory, May 1929 - Henry Ford created a room for dancing at Ford Motor Company's Engineering Lab, where his office and the company's engineering activities were located. These students are learning the traditional American dances of Henry Ford's youth -- along with dance etiquette. Later, Ford built Lovett Hall, an elegant ballroom named for his dancing master.
- May 11, 1929
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Edison Institute School Students in the Dance Room of Ford Engineering Laboratory, May 1929
Henry Ford created a room for dancing at Ford Motor Company's Engineering Lab, where his office and the company's engineering activities were located. These students are learning the traditional American dances of Henry Ford's youth -- along with dance etiquette. Later, Ford built Lovett Hall, an elegant ballroom named for his dancing master.
- "We Give Support to You," 1988-1999 -
- 1988-1999
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"We Give Support to You," 1988-1999
- Ruth Young and Art Teacher Josephine Barrett Mason Painting at George Washington Carver School in Detroit, March 3, 1971 -
- March 03, 1971
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Ruth Young and Art Teacher Josephine Barrett Mason Painting at George Washington Carver School in Detroit, March 3, 1971
- Teacher's Leaflet No. 2, Nature Study and Children's Gardens, 1904 - Among George Washington Carver's contributions were the bulletins he issued from the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Tuskegee Institute. This pamphlet, written for teachers, treats the popular topic of "nature study," the early 20th century's version of environmental education. It was a guide for educators wanting to involve school children in gardening to help prepare them for successful farming careers. Carver's nature study bulletins emphasized both aesthetic and scientific understandings of nature and were popular across the country.
- 1904
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Teacher's Leaflet No. 2, Nature Study and Children's Gardens, 1904
Among George Washington Carver's contributions were the bulletins he issued from the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Tuskegee Institute. This pamphlet, written for teachers, treats the popular topic of "nature study," the early 20th century's version of environmental education. It was a guide for educators wanting to involve school children in gardening to help prepare them for successful farming careers. Carver's nature study bulletins emphasized both aesthetic and scientific understandings of nature and were popular across the country.
- World War I Veterans Demonstrate Use of Their Artificial Limbs to World War II Veterans at Camp Legion, July 1944 - Henry Ford opened Camp Legion, near Dearborn, Michigan, in 1938 for sons of dead or disabled World War I veterans. The young men earned steady wages working there seasonally from April-November. The camp's mission was modified in 1944 to include rehabilitation of World War II veterans with disabilities. Veterans learned new skills to help them reenter the workforce.
- July 18, 1944
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World War I Veterans Demonstrate Use of Their Artificial Limbs to World War II Veterans at Camp Legion, July 1944
Henry Ford opened Camp Legion, near Dearborn, Michigan, in 1938 for sons of dead or disabled World War I veterans. The young men earned steady wages working there seasonally from April-November. The camp's mission was modified in 1944 to include rehabilitation of World War II veterans with disabilities. Veterans learned new skills to help them reenter the workforce.
- Disabled Veteran in Class at Camp Legion Vocational School, August 1944 - Henry Ford opened Camp Legion, near Dearborn, Michigan, in 1938 for sons of dead or disabled World War I veterans. The young men earned steady wages working there seasonally from April-November. The camp's mission was modified in 1944 to include rehabilitation of World War II veterans with disabilities. Veterans learned new skills to help them reenter the workforce.
- August 12, 1944
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Disabled Veteran in Class at Camp Legion Vocational School, August 1944
Henry Ford opened Camp Legion, near Dearborn, Michigan, in 1938 for sons of dead or disabled World War I veterans. The young men earned steady wages working there seasonally from April-November. The camp's mission was modified in 1944 to include rehabilitation of World War II veterans with disabilities. Veterans learned new skills to help them reenter the workforce.
- "McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader," Originally Published 1885, Reprinted by Henry Ford, 1930 - Henry Ford remembered fondly the McGuffey Readers he studied in the one-room schools of his youth. He even had them reprinted in 1930, so that students in his Edison Institute Schools could learn from them as well. Ford -- having looked up some of his childhood classmates -- gave this reprinted Reader to Olive Burdeno, who had attended school with Ford in the 1870s.
- 1930
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"McGuffey's New Fourth Eclectic Reader," Originally Published 1885, Reprinted by Henry Ford, 1930
Henry Ford remembered fondly the McGuffey Readers he studied in the one-room schools of his youth. He even had them reprinted in 1930, so that students in his Edison Institute Schools could learn from them as well. Ford -- having looked up some of his childhood classmates -- gave this reprinted Reader to Olive Burdeno, who had attended school with Ford in the 1870s.
- "WTVS Channel 56 'You Name It,' 1st Semester 1959-1960, Detroit Public Schools" - Beginning in the 1950s, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village partnered with WTVS, Detroit's local educational television station, to bring American history into the classroom. Marion Corwell, the museum's Manager of Educational Television, produced and hosted <em>You Name It</em> -- a half-hour quiz show. Students from grades 5 to 8 tried to identify and give the historical significance of objects from the museum's collection.
- 1959-1960
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"WTVS Channel 56 'You Name It,' 1st Semester 1959-1960, Detroit Public Schools"
Beginning in the 1950s, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village partnered with WTVS, Detroit's local educational television station, to bring American history into the classroom. Marion Corwell, the museum's Manager of Educational Television, produced and hosted You Name It -- a half-hour quiz show. Students from grades 5 to 8 tried to identify and give the historical significance of objects from the museum's collection.