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- Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Branch in Richmond, California, September 15, 1931 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- September 15, 1931
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Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Branch in Richmond, California, September 15, 1931
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- British M-3 Grant-Lee Medium Tanks Shipped to Ford Plant for Repairs, Richmond, California, 1942 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- 1942
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British M-3 Grant-Lee Medium Tanks Shipped to Ford Plant for Repairs, Richmond, California, 1942
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Ford Motor Company Branch in Richmond, California, January 18, 1946 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- January 19, 1947
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Ford Motor Company Branch in Richmond, California, January 18, 1946
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant, Richmond, California, 1931 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- September 15, 1931
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Aerial View of Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant, Richmond, California, 1931
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Inside Ford Assembly Plant in Richmond, California during World War II, circa 1943 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- circa 1943
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Inside Ford Assembly Plant in Richmond, California during World War II, circa 1943
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Ford Motor Company Richmond Tank Depot, Richmond, California, June 1943 - Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- June 19, 1943
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Ford Motor Company Richmond Tank Depot, Richmond, California, June 1943
Ford Motor Company opened an Albert Kahn-designed assembly plant in Richmond, California, in 1930. During World War II, employees at the factory built tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Ford closed the Richmond plant in 1956. Today it houses private businesses and a visitor center for Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
- Correspondence between the "Girls in the Model T" from Bradford, Illinois and the Office of Henry Ford, 1938-1940 - Darlene Dorgan, accompanied by four or five young women, spent summer vacations during the 1930s and early 1940s traveling in her 1926 Model T. The carefree troupes from Bradford, Illinois, roamed the United States and Canada in the self-painted silver "T". After driving to Dearborn, Michigan, to wish Henry Ford a happy birthday in 1938, the group kept in touch with the famed automaker.
- 09 October 1938-04 July 1940
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Correspondence between the "Girls in the Model T" from Bradford, Illinois and the Office of Henry Ford, 1938-1940
Darlene Dorgan, accompanied by four or five young women, spent summer vacations during the 1930s and early 1940s traveling in her 1926 Model T. The carefree troupes from Bradford, Illinois, roamed the United States and Canada in the self-painted silver "T". After driving to Dearborn, Michigan, to wish Henry Ford a happy birthday in 1938, the group kept in touch with the famed automaker.