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- Exhibition Poster, "American Printmaking: The First 150 Years," 1970 -
- 11 March 1970 - 12 April 1970
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Exhibition Poster, "American Printmaking: The First 150 Years," 1970
- Henry Ford Academy Students in Lamy's Diner in Henry Ford Museum, October 2007 - Henry Ford Academy, a charter high school on the campus of The Henry Ford, opened in 1997. These students were photographed having a lesson in Lamy's Diner, inside Henry Ford Museum, in October 2007.
- October 01, 2007
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Henry Ford Academy Students in Lamy's Diner in Henry Ford Museum, October 2007
Henry Ford Academy, a charter high school on the campus of The Henry Ford, opened in 1997. These students were photographed having a lesson in Lamy's Diner, inside Henry Ford Museum, in October 2007.
- Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing a Vidicon Television Camera Tube, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958 - Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
- April 30, 1958
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Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing a Vidicon Television Camera Tube, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958
Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
- Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing Donald Shelley a Portable Television Camera, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958 -
- April 30, 1958
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Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing Donald Shelley a Portable Television Camera, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958
- Toy Shop in Henry Ford Museum "Street of Shops" Exhibit, circa 1941 - Henry Ford encouraged and appreciated the work of artist and illustrator Irving Bacon. In 1915, Bacon joined the Photographic Department of Ford Motor Company after he returned from studying art in Europe. Over the next thirty years, Bacon painted scenes depicting Ford's life, created portraiture, and illustrated articles for company publications. This drawing depicts the Street of Shops exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum.
- circa 1941
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Toy Shop in Henry Ford Museum "Street of Shops" Exhibit, circa 1941
Henry Ford encouraged and appreciated the work of artist and illustrator Irving Bacon. In 1915, Bacon joined the Photographic Department of Ford Motor Company after he returned from studying art in Europe. Over the next thirty years, Bacon painted scenes depicting Ford's life, created portraiture, and illustrated articles for company publications. This drawing depicts the Street of Shops exhibit in the Henry Ford Museum.
- Raymond Massey Viewing the Abraham Lincoln Chair, Then Exhibited in Greenfield Village, November 1943 - Actor Raymond Massey portrayed Abraham Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" first as a Broadway play in 1938-39, followed by a 1940 film. The story which traces Lincoln's early life through the 1860 election was written by noted playwright Robert Sherwood, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. In late 1943, Massey toured the Logan County Courthouse where this photograph was taken.
- November 12, 1943
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Raymond Massey Viewing the Abraham Lincoln Chair, Then Exhibited in Greenfield Village, November 1943
Actor Raymond Massey portrayed Abraham Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" first as a Broadway play in 1938-39, followed by a 1940 film. The story which traces Lincoln's early life through the 1860 election was written by noted playwright Robert Sherwood, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. In late 1943, Massey toured the Logan County Courthouse where this photograph was taken.
- Gas-Steam Engine Used at the Ford Highland Park Plant, on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum in August 1937 -
- August 24, 1937
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Gas-Steam Engine Used at the Ford Highland Park Plant, on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum in August 1937
- 1927 Boeing Model 40-B2 Biplane on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, June 2007 - Boeing's Model 40-B2 airplane used an air-cooled radial engine. Carrying capacity that would have been spent on a radiator and water could instead be used for mail or passengers. When <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> opened at The Henry Ford in 2003, the Model 40-B2 represented designer and manufacturer William E. Boeing in the exhibit's "Entrepreneurs" section.
- June 01, 2007
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1927 Boeing Model 40-B2 Biplane on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, June 2007
Boeing's Model 40-B2 airplane used an air-cooled radial engine. Carrying capacity that would have been spent on a radiator and water could instead be used for mail or passengers. When Heroes of the Sky opened at The Henry Ford in 2003, the Model 40-B2 represented designer and manufacturer William E. Boeing in the exhibit's "Entrepreneurs" section.
- Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007 - This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- September 01, 2007
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Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007
This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the Heroes of the Sky exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007 - This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the <em>Heroes of the Sky</em> exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.
- September 01, 2007
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Replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer on Exhibit in Henry Ford Museum, September 2007
This replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was built in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The replica Flyer became the heart of the Heroes of the Sky exhibit in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, sitting in the central hub that connected each of the exhibit's sections.