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- Checker Station Wagon, April 1964 - Morris Markin formed Checker Motors Corporation in 1922. The company manufactured taxicabs at its plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, until 1982. Checker began building passenger cars for private owners in 1959. The 1964 Checker Marathon featured a six-cylinder engine and a design based on the company's commercial cabs. The Marathon was available as a sedan or a station wagon.
- April 01, 1964
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Checker Station Wagon, April 1964
Morris Markin formed Checker Motors Corporation in 1922. The company manufactured taxicabs at its plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, until 1982. Checker began building passenger cars for private owners in 1959. The 1964 Checker Marathon featured a six-cylinder engine and a design based on the company's commercial cabs. The Marathon was available as a sedan or a station wagon.
- Prospect Park, Children Watching Sheep, 1890-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1890-1915
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Prospect Park, Children Watching Sheep, 1890-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- Prospect Park, Guardians of the Sheep, 1890-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1890-1915
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Prospect Park, Guardians of the Sheep, 1890-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- Cat Riding a Sheep at Cotswold Cottage in Greenfield Village, 1932 -
- February 18, 1932
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Cat Riding a Sheep at Cotswold Cottage in Greenfield Village, 1932
- Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village - Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- May 03, 2019
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Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village
Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village - Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- May 03, 2019
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Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village
Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village - Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- May 03, 2019
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Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village
Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village - Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- May 03, 2019
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Melvin Parson Shearing a Sheep at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village
Melvin Parson, Spring 2019 Entrepreneur-In-Residence at The Henry Ford, hand-sheared a Merino sheep with guidance from the Firestone Farm staff, thanks to the William Davidson Foundation's Initiative for Entrepreneurship. Parson, founder of We The People Growers Association, learned about sheep as wool producers during the 1880s on Harvey Firestone's family farm near Columbiana County, Ohio.
- Sheep Waiting for a Ferry on the Columbia River in Oregon, 1923-1924 - Beginning in 1920, the Henry Ford-owned weekly newspaper <em>The Dearborn Independent</em> ran a series of front-page articles that denounced all things Jewish. Though the series ended in 1922, the weekly continued anti-Jewish diatribes in other articles, most notably those attacking Aaron Sapiro, a farm cooperative organizer. This photograph, though it appears harmless, was part of that campaign.
- 1923-1924
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Sheep Waiting for a Ferry on the Columbia River in Oregon, 1923-1924
Beginning in 1920, the Henry Ford-owned weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent ran a series of front-page articles that denounced all things Jewish. Though the series ended in 1922, the weekly continued anti-Jewish diatribes in other articles, most notably those attacking Aaron Sapiro, a farm cooperative organizer. This photograph, though it appears harmless, was part of that campaign.
- Demonstrating Blade-Shearing of Merino Sheep in Greenfield Village, May 2005 - Heavy coats of fine wool made Merino sheep a popular breed among nineteenth-century wool producers. Every spring, shearers carefully navigated blade shears to remove each sheep's thick fleece -- a process that could take several hours. More than a century later, presenters demonstrate this labor-intensive blade-shearing process at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village.
- May 01, 2005
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Demonstrating Blade-Shearing of Merino Sheep in Greenfield Village, May 2005
Heavy coats of fine wool made Merino sheep a popular breed among nineteenth-century wool producers. Every spring, shearers carefully navigated blade shears to remove each sheep's thick fleece -- a process that could take several hours. More than a century later, presenters demonstrate this labor-intensive blade-shearing process at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village.