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- Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940 - Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- April 12, 1940
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Walt Disney Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1940
Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. Disney visited many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. During a tour in 1940, he stopped in the village tintype studio. Disney posed for and autographed this portrait for display in the studio
- Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935 -
- circa 1935
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Greenfield Village Corner Trash Can, circa 1935
- Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930 - Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- 1929-1930
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Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Tintype Studio in Greenfield Village, 1929-1930
Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- Daguerreotype Portrait of Thomas Edison in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1930 -
- December 04, 1930
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Daguerreotype Portrait of Thomas Edison in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1930
- Walt Disney and Ward Kimball Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1948 - Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. He traveled many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, which he visited twice in the 1940s. During his second trip in 1948, Disney posed for this portrait with one of his animators, Ward Kimball, in the village tintype studio.
- August 23, 1948
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Walt Disney and Ward Kimball Posing in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1948
Walt Disney spent years imagining his ground-breaking theme park, Disneyland, before it opened in 1955. He traveled many places to find inspiration, including Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, which he visited twice in the 1940s. During his second trip in 1948, Disney posed for this portrait with one of his animators, Ward Kimball, in the village tintype studio.
- Tintype of Joe Louis, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1935 - Seventeen-year-old Joe Louis got his start as an athlete and boxer in 1931 at the Brewster East Side Gymnasium in Detroit. He became world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937 and held the title until 1949. This autographed tintype of him was taken in Greenfield Village's Tintype Studio during a visit in 1935.
- October 15, 1935
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Tintype of Joe Louis, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1935
Seventeen-year-old Joe Louis got his start as an athlete and boxer in 1931 at the Brewster East Side Gymnasium in Detroit. He became world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937 and held the title until 1949. This autographed tintype of him was taken in Greenfield Village's Tintype Studio during a visit in 1935.
- Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1935 - Tintypes, the popular "instant photographs" of the 19th century, could be produced in a matter of minutes at a price most people could afford. Tintypes democratized photography. Beginning in the mid-1850s, they gave more people than ever before the chance to have a real likeness of themselves--capturing unique glimpses of how everyday Americans looked and lived.
- circa 1935
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Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1935
Tintypes, the popular "instant photographs" of the 19th century, could be produced in a matter of minutes at a price most people could afford. Tintypes democratized photography. Beginning in the mid-1850s, they gave more people than ever before the chance to have a real likeness of themselves--capturing unique glimpses of how everyday Americans looked and lived.
- Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1929-1930 - Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- 1929-1930
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Edsel, Eleanor, Clara and Henry Ford with Guests at Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, 1929-1930
Just before the official dedication of his historical village in October 1929, Henry Ford decided to add a tintype photographic studio. Ford's staff worked feverishly to complete the building--designed to look like a small tintype studio from the 1870s and 1880s--in one day! Not long after it opened, Ford posed with family and friends in the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio for this group portrait.
- Tintype Portrait of Linton Wells and Fay Gillis Wells, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, May 2, 1940 - Constructed in 1929, the tintype studio was a popular destination for Greenfield Village visitors. Many celebrities and other well-known people also stopped in to have their pictures taken. Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator, journalist, and broadcaster, and Linton Wells, a foreign correspondent and radio news analyst, posed for this portrait in 1940. They autographed it "in appreciation of a most memorable visit."
- May 02, 1940
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Tintype Portrait of Linton Wells and Fay Gillis Wells, Taken at the Greenfield Village Tintype Studio, May 2, 1940
Constructed in 1929, the tintype studio was a popular destination for Greenfield Village visitors. Many celebrities and other well-known people also stopped in to have their pictures taken. Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator, journalist, and broadcaster, and Linton Wells, a foreign correspondent and radio news analyst, posed for this portrait in 1940. They autographed it "in appreciation of a most memorable visit."