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- Stone Road in the Ruin of a City, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Stone Road in the Ruin of a City, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Paved Road, circa 1935 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Paved Road, circa 1935
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Paved Road, circa 1935 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Paved Road, circa 1935
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Camel Pack Train Crossing a Stream on a Stone Road, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Camel Pack Train Crossing a Stream on a Stone Road, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Woman Sweeping Stone-Paved Street, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Woman Sweeping Stone-Paved Street, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Stone Road and Arches, Mexico, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors to this attraction rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of 19 famous roadways from around the world. Ford used reference photographs (and $176,000 for landscaping) to construct a realistic, immersive experience. This image helped recreate a section of road built by Spanish Conquistadors in sixteenth-century Mexico.
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Stone Road and Arches, Mexico, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors to this attraction rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of 19 famous roadways from around the world. Ford used reference photographs (and $176,000 for landscaping) to construct a realistic, immersive experience. This image helped recreate a section of road built by Spanish Conquistadors in sixteenth-century Mexico.
- Man Walking on a Stone Road, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Man Walking on a Stone Road, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- Paved Road, circa 1935 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- circa 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Paved Road, circa 1935
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of famous roadways from around the world. Ford spent $176,000 landscaping the attraction into historic and modern sections. To ensure a realistic, immersive experience, crews used reference photographs--like this one--to recreate the 19 "Roads of the World."
- View of the Appian Way, Italy, 1934 - "Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors to this attraction rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of 19 famous roadways from around the world. Ford used reference photographs (and $176,000 for landscaping) to construct a realistic, immersive experience. This image helped recreate a section of Italy's Appian Way, an ancient Roman road.
- circa 1934
- Collections - Artifact
View of the Appian Way, Italy, 1934
"Roads of the World" was part of the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors to this attraction rode new Ford vehicles through reproductions of 19 famous roadways from around the world. Ford used reference photographs (and $176,000 for landscaping) to construct a realistic, immersive experience. This image helped recreate a section of Italy's Appian Way, an ancient Roman road.
- "Ford Rotunda Presents...a Glimpse of Your Dearborn Holiday," 1957 - Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 to 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This brochure enticed travelers to visit the Ford Rotunda, Rouge Plant, Ford Research and Engineering Center, Greenfield Village, and enjoy a "Dearborn Holiday."
- 1957
- Collections - Artifact
"Ford Rotunda Presents...a Glimpse of Your Dearborn Holiday," 1957
Ford Motor Company brought its central Rotunda building from the 1934 Century of Progress Exposition back to Dearborn and, from 1936 to 1962, recreated the excitement of a World's Fair exposition on its home turf. This brochure enticed travelers to visit the Ford Rotunda, Rouge Plant, Ford Research and Engineering Center, Greenfield Village, and enjoy a "Dearborn Holiday."