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- Livery and Feed Barn Converted to Taxi and Service Garage, circa 1915 - Early cars needed lots of routine maintenance and broke down often. Mechanically inclined professionals like bicycle repairmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and plumbers made willing auto mechanics. The owners of this livery and feed barn embraced the transition to horseless transportation. In place of care for horses or carriages for hire, they offered automotive taxi and repair services.
- circa 1915
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Livery and Feed Barn Converted to Taxi and Service Garage, circa 1915
Early cars needed lots of routine maintenance and broke down often. Mechanically inclined professionals like bicycle repairmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and plumbers made willing auto mechanics. The owners of this livery and feed barn embraced the transition to horseless transportation. In place of care for horses or carriages for hire, they offered automotive taxi and repair services.
- Addison Ford Barn in Greenfield Village, circa 1934 - Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- circa 1934
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Addison Ford Barn in Greenfield Village, circa 1934
Irving Bacon, a Ford Motor Company employee and Henry Ford's personal artist, created pen-and-ink drawings to illustrate guidebooks for the Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village (now The Henry Ford) when they officially opened to the public in 1933. An illustrated souvenir guidebook helped visitors navigate the exhibits and grounds. Ford also used these drawings in other company publications.
- Livery Stable, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1890 - Before cars, America relied on horse-drawn vehicles to move people, freight, money, and information to places railroads and waterways didn't go. This made horses big business, especially in large cities like Detroit. This photograph shows a horse-drawn buggy in front of a very ornate livery stable, a place to board and store -- or rent -- horses and horse-drawn vehicles.
- circa 1890
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Livery Stable, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1890
Before cars, America relied on horse-drawn vehicles to move people, freight, money, and information to places railroads and waterways didn't go. This made horses big business, especially in large cities like Detroit. This photograph shows a horse-drawn buggy in front of a very ornate livery stable, a place to board and store -- or rent -- horses and horse-drawn vehicles.
- Addison Ford Barn in Greenfield Village, circa 1933 -
- circa 1933
- Collections - Artifact
Addison Ford Barn in Greenfield Village, circa 1933