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- Ford-Ferguson Model 9N Tractor Pulling a Combine, Macon, Michigan, November 1939 - Henry Ford acquired thousands of acres of farmland in southeast Michigan, collectively known as the Ford Farms. Much of the Farms' acreage was dedicated to one of Ford's agricultural interests at that time: soybeans. This 1939 image shows a tractor-drawn combine harvesting soybeans in Macon, Michigan.
- November 01, 1939
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Ford-Ferguson Model 9N Tractor Pulling a Combine, Macon, Michigan, November 1939
Henry Ford acquired thousands of acres of farmland in southeast Michigan, collectively known as the Ford Farms. Much of the Farms' acreage was dedicated to one of Ford's agricultural interests at that time: soybeans. This 1939 image shows a tractor-drawn combine harvesting soybeans in Macon, Michigan.
- Ford-Ferguson 9N Tractor Plowing and Mowing, October 9, 1940 -
- October 09, 1940
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Ford-Ferguson 9N Tractor Plowing and Mowing, October 9, 1940
- Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- July 29, 1940
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Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- September 09, 1940
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Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- 1940
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Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- May 13, 1940
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Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- Employees with the 4,000,000th Ford Tractor and a Fordson Tractor at the Highland Park Plant, 1972 -
- 1972
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Employees with the 4,000,000th Ford Tractor and a Fordson Tractor at the Highland Park Plant, 1972
- 1952 Ford Model 8N Tractor - The Ford Motor Company, after Henry Ford's death, released its most popular tractor in 1948. The 8N broke with Ford tradition by sporting new paint colors. Farmers bought the affordable tractor because it retained Ferguson's revolutionary 3-point hitch system and included a "crawler" gear and PTO (power-take-off) that transferred engine power to new equipment like forage choppers.
- 1952
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1952 Ford Model 8N Tractor
The Ford Motor Company, after Henry Ford's death, released its most popular tractor in 1948. The 8N broke with Ford tradition by sporting new paint colors. Farmers bought the affordable tractor because it retained Ferguson's revolutionary 3-point hitch system and included a "crawler" gear and PTO (power-take-off) that transferred engine power to new equipment like forage choppers.
- Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940 - The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- May 28, 1940
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Family with Ford Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1940
The 1940 New York World's Fair encouraged a depression-weary public that the future would be rosy. Newspapers held contests nationwide to select 48 "typical American families." Each was awarded a week's stay in a futuristic model home at the fair. Ford Motor Company sponsored the promotion, covering each family's travel expenses and hosting a special visit to the Ford Exposition.
- Drawing, "Adaptor - Oil Filter Tube," Ford 9N Tractor, April 26, 1944 - The Ford Motor Company created over a million parts drawings from 1903 to 1957. Many of these drawings specify engineering requirements for the components of Ford-made vehicles--including automobiles, trucks, tractors, military vehicles and Tri-motor airplanes. Others document assembly components, stages of casting and forging, or experimental designs. Beginning in the 1940s, Ford transferred the drawings to microfilm.
- April 26, 1944
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Drawing, "Adaptor - Oil Filter Tube," Ford 9N Tractor, April 26, 1944
The Ford Motor Company created over a million parts drawings from 1903 to 1957. Many of these drawings specify engineering requirements for the components of Ford-made vehicles--including automobiles, trucks, tractors, military vehicles and Tri-motor airplanes. Others document assembly components, stages of casting and forging, or experimental designs. Beginning in the 1940s, Ford transferred the drawings to microfilm.