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- Henry Ford with the Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Richmond Hill, Georgia Estate, circa 1940 - In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- circa 1940
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Henry Ford with the Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Richmond Hill, Georgia Estate, circa 1940
In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Winter Home in Georgia, Richmond Hill Plantation, circa 1940 - In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- circa 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Winter Home in Georgia, Richmond Hill Plantation, circa 1940
In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra, circa 1925 - Henry Ford needed a band to play at his "old-fashioned" dances, so he put together his "Old Time Orchestra" in 1924. Fiddles and dulcimers had often accompanied the dances of his youth. He tried out different instruments and musicians till he got the sound he wanted. In the early years, the orchestra included a fiddle, dulcimer, cimbalom--and a sousaphone.
- circa 1925
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Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra, circa 1925
Henry Ford needed a band to play at his "old-fashioned" dances, so he put together his "Old Time Orchestra" in 1924. Fiddles and dulcimers had often accompanied the dances of his youth. He tried out different instruments and musicians till he got the sound he wanted. In the early years, the orchestra included a fiddle, dulcimer, cimbalom--and a sousaphone.
- Fiddler Jep Bisbee with Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra, circa 1925 - Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--and the automaker's admiration soon made the elderly Paris, Michigan fiddler a celebrity. Ford met Bisbee in 1923 while on a summer camping trip in northern Michigan. Bisbee at Ford's request, recorded for Edison Records a few months later. Bisbee (shown here with Ford's dance orchestra) won a statewide fiddling contest held in Detroit in January 1926.
- circa 1925
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Fiddler Jep Bisbee with Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra, circa 1925
Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--and the automaker's admiration soon made the elderly Paris, Michigan fiddler a celebrity. Ford met Bisbee in 1923 while on a summer camping trip in northern Michigan. Bisbee at Ford's request, recorded for Edison Records a few months later. Bisbee (shown here with Ford's dance orchestra) won a statewide fiddling contest held in Detroit in January 1926.
- Henry Ford with the Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Richmond Hill, Georgia Estate, circa 1940 - In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- circa 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Henry Ford with the Old-Time Dance Orchestra at His Richmond Hill, Georgia Estate, circa 1940
In the 1930s and 1940s, Henry Ford summered at his Richmond Hill, Georgia, home. Ford brought his Old Time Orchestra there about 1940 to provide music for his old-fashioned dances. He also had Benjamin Lovett, accompanied by the orchestra, teach these traditional American dance steps to the children in the schools he built there.
- Dearborn Inn Trio Performing in the Lounge of the Dearborn Inn, 1934 -
- April 13, 1934
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Dearborn Inn Trio Performing in the Lounge of the Dearborn Inn, 1934
- Fiddler Jep Bisbee with Daughter and Son in Ford Home (Henry Ford's Birthplace), November 1923 - Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--it was a pleasant reminder of the country dancing of Ford's rural youth. In November 1923, Bisbee, with his daughter Beulah and son Earl, played music at Ford's childhood home, which Ford had lovingly restored to its 1870s appearance. Ford later recalled that Bisbee's music inspired the industrialist to revive the dances of his youth.
- November 25, 1923
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Fiddler Jep Bisbee with Daughter and Son in Ford Home (Henry Ford's Birthplace), November 1923
Henry Ford loved Jep Bisbee's fiddling--it was a pleasant reminder of the country dancing of Ford's rural youth. In November 1923, Bisbee, with his daughter Beulah and son Earl, played music at Ford's childhood home, which Ford had lovingly restored to its 1870s appearance. Ford later recalled that Bisbee's music inspired the industrialist to revive the dances of his youth.