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Parade Torch
- Torch Used at the Dedication of the "Henry" and "Benson" Blast Furnaces, Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1920 and 1922 - With help from his grandfather, two-year-old Henry Ford II used this torch to light the first blast furnace at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory in 1920. Two years later, his younger brother Benson Ford, three years old at the time, lit the Rouge's second furnace with the same torch. Each of the furnaces, nicknamed "Henry" and "Benson", produced 1,200 tons of iron a day.
- 1920-1922
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Torch Used at the Dedication of the "Henry" and "Benson" Blast Furnaces, Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, 1920 and 1922
With help from his grandfather, two-year-old Henry Ford II used this torch to light the first blast furnace at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory in 1920. Two years later, his younger brother Benson Ford, three years old at the time, lit the Rouge's second furnace with the same torch. Each of the furnaces, nicknamed "Henry" and "Benson", produced 1,200 tons of iron a day.
- Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Campaign Torch, 1864 - Late-nineteenth-century political parties rallied their supporters by holding torchlight parades. In the evening, marchers lit up the street carrying torches, lamps and lanterns. Many of these political lanterns glowed with slogans and patriotic symbols. Supporters of President Lincoln and the Union would have carried this torch during the 1864 campaign.
- 1864
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Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Campaign Torch, 1864
Late-nineteenth-century political parties rallied their supporters by holding torchlight parades. In the evening, marchers lit up the street carrying torches, lamps and lanterns. Many of these political lanterns glowed with slogans and patriotic symbols. Supporters of President Lincoln and the Union would have carried this torch during the 1864 campaign.