Finding Aid for PHOTOGRAPHIC VERTICAL FILE SERIES, 1860-1980 (BULK 1890-1955) Accession 1660 Finding Aid Published: March 2012 Electronic conversion of this finding aid was funded by a grant from the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET) http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Boulevard ∙ Dearborn, MI 48124-5029 USA [email protected] ∙ www.thehenryford.org Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 OVERVIEW REPOSITORY: Benson Ford Research Center The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd Dearborn, MI 48124-5029 www.thehenryford.org [email protected] ACCESSION NUMBER: 1660 CREATOR: Ford Motor Company. Archives. TITLE: Photographic vertical file series INCLUSIVE DATES: 1860-1980 BULK DATES: 1890-1955 QUANTITY: 53.33 linear ft LANGUAGE: The materials are in English. ABSTRACT: The Photographic vertical file series is an assembled collection of photographs from a variety of sources. The series contains both original photographs and copy photographs, covering a wide range of topics. Page 2 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: The collection is open for research. COPYRIGHT: Copyright has been transferred to The Henry Ford by the donor. Copyright for some items in the collection may still be held by their respective creator(s). ACQUISITION: Ford Motor Company Archives donation, 1964 and ongoing. RELATED MATERIAL: Related material held by The Henry Ford: Forms part of the Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup, which includes: - American Road Marketing and Publicity photographs series, Accession 1859 - Topical Photographic Prints in Binders series, Accession 1854 PREFERRED CITATION: Item, folder, box, accession 1660, Photographic vertical file series, Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford PROCESSING INFORMATION: Collection initially created by and processed by Ford Motor Company Archives staff in the 1950s and added to by Benson Ford Research Center staff DESCRIPTION INFORMATION: Original collection inventory list prepared by Ford Motor Company Archives staff in the 1950s and updated by Benson Ford Research Center staff Finding aid prepared by Benson Ford Research Center staff, March 2012, and published in March 2012. Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and local guidelines. Page 3 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE This assembled collection consists of the most often used images relating to Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company. Started in the 1950s, these photoprints were gathered from larger photograph accessions (particularly Accessions 188, 189 and 833) and from miscellaneous sources. In many ways this collection forms a synopsis of the larger Henry Ford / Ford Motor Company photographic accessions. This file contains vintage as well as copy photoprints. Topics covered include an encyclopedic range of subjects concerning Henry Ford and his family from 1890 to 1955; a broad selection of Ford Motor Company products, buildings, activities, and subsidiaries from 1903 to 1955; and a sampling of automotive industry images other than Ford Motor Company (for views of automobiles other than Ford products see Accession 1671). This collection reflects Henry Ford's wide interests, and includes images of famous people such as actors, authors, kings, and scientists as well as his personal friends, John Burroughs, Harvey Firestone, and George Washington Carver (for Thomas Edison images see also Accession 1630). Henry Ford's interest in historic preservation at Botsford Inn and Wayside Inn also is covered (for images of Henry Ford Museum AND Greenfield Village see also Accession EI 1929). Some cities and towns are documented in this collection, particularly where Henry Ford's Village Industries, farms and homes were located and the sites of Ford Motor Company plants and branches. Michigan is particularly well represented because of the company headquarters in Detroit and Dearborn. Reflecting the activity of the Ford Archives in the 1950s many views of automobiles on city streets, country roads, and camping from the early decades of this century are part of this collection, gathered for Ford Motor Company's 50th anniversary advertising campaign, "The American Road." Additional topics include automobile exhibitions, Stout and Ford Tri-Motor airplanes, Ford Tractors and World War I and II defense production. Copy photoprints of graphics such as company advertisements and documents are also in the collection (for the original artifacts see Accession 19 for advertisements, and Accession 1, Accession 62, Accession 285, and other manuscript collections for the documents). The original subject arrangement was based on an idiosyncratic set of subject headings developed for use with the Ford manuscript collections. Beginning in 1986, the subject terms were changed to reflect Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division standards for subject arrangement. In 1987, a large portion of the photoprints in this collection was cataloged in The Henry Ford’s collection management system with a concomitant videodisc made of the images. The accession was previously known as the Archives Print Collection, the Reference Photofile, the Aircraft Subject Boxes, the Automotive Addendum, and the A Series Prints by Subject. Page 4 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 CONTAINER LIST Box no. Description Box 1 ACCOUNTANTS BLACK, GEORGE M. WHITE, ALBERT E. ACTORS AND ACTRESSES AMOS AND ANDY BEERY, WALLACE BERNHARDT, SARAH BLACKMER, SIDNEY BROWN, JOE E. BURNS, GEORGE CHAPLIN, CHARLES CRAWFORD, JOAN DAVIS, BETTE DEL RIO, DELORES DENNY, REGINALD DIETRICH, MARLENE FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS FIELDS, GRACIE FIELDS, W.C. FOY, EDDIE GABLE, CLARK HAYWORTH, RITA HEFLIN, VAN HOUSTON, WALTER LANCASTER, BURT LANG, ANTON LAUDER, SIR HARRY MARTIN, MARY MAYO, VIRGINIA MASSEY, RAYMOND MOORE, VICTOR MORGAN, DENNIS "MY FAIR LADY" CAST OF (1957) PALANCE, JACK PICKFORD, MARY POWER, TYRONE RAND, SALLY ROGERS, ROY ROGERS, WILL ROONEY, MICKEY SIMMONS, SKEETS SULLIVAN, ED TEMPLE, SHIRLEY TRACY, SPENCER WIFFEN, MRS. Actresses See ACTORS AND ACTRESSES Box 2 ADVERTISEMENTS AUTOMOBILES AUTOCAR CO. CHEVROLET Page 5 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 DETROIT ELECTRIC CAR CO. EDSEL--1957-1959 FORD 1903-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 BLACK AND WHITE COLOR AIRSHIPS BLACK AND WHITE (2 folders) COLOR INSTITUTIONAL See also ADVERTISEMENTS--CHARCOAL BRIQUETS LINCOLN 1930-1939 1950-1959--COLOR MERCURY--1930-1939 OLDSMOBILE BUSES—FORD--1910-1919 CHARCOAL BRIQUETS TANKS, MILITARY--FORD TRACTORS FORD--1940-1949 FORDSON--1920-1929 TRUCKS AND TRUCKING--FORD 1910-1919 1930-1939 1940-1949 ADVERTISING, OUTDOOR See also ADVERTISEMENTS—AUTOMOBILES--FORD Aeronutronics See INDUSTRY--AERONAUTICS--FORD MOTOR CO. AFRICAN-AMERICANS EMPLOYMENT See also ASSEMBLY LINE METHODS--AUTOMOBILES; INDUSTRY-- AUTOMOBILES--EMPLOYEES Ford, Henry See FORD, HENRY--AFRICAN-AMERICANS Agricultural machinery See FARM MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS Aircraft See AIRPLANES AIR FREIGHT--FORD AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICE--1925-1932 Airlines See INDUSTRY--AIRPLANES AIR MAIL SERVICE--CONTRACT AIR MAIL--FORD MOTOR CO.--1926 AIR PILOTS ACOSTA, BERT BALCHEN & BENNETT BEECH, WALTER BLERIOT, LOUIS BREMEN FLYERS BROCK, WILLIAM BROOKS, HARRY BYRD, RICHARD COLLINS, JOHN CORRIGAN, DOUGLAS COSTES, DIEUDONNE EARHART, AMELIA DOOLITTLE, JAMES EARHART, AMELIA HAMILTON, EDWARD D. HAWKS, FRANK JONES, CASEY Page 6 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 KNIGHT, JACK Box 3 LINDBERGH, CHARLES GENERAL (3 folders) DOCUMENTS FORD, HENRY (2 folders) LIVINGSTON, JOHN (AIRTOUR PILOT) MANNING, LEROY (FORD PILOT) MITCHELL, WILLIAM, COL. MOUNTS, W.W. (FORD PILOT) NUNGESSER, CHARLES RICKENBACKER, EDDIE GENERAL FORD, HENRY ROSENDAHL, CHARLES (LOS ANGELES) RUSSELL, HARRY (FORD PILOT) STINSON, EDDIE TIN LAI HUANG VANZANDT, JOHN PARKER (FORD PILOT) VERVILLE, A.V. WEAVER, TRUMAN WOOD, JOHN PERRY WRIGHT, ORVILLE GENERAL HENRY FORD (2 folders) WRIGHT, WILBUR GENERAL FAMILY YANCY, LEWIS Yeager, William See WEAVER, TRUMAN Airplane industry See INDUSTRY--AIRPLANES AIRPLANES See also INDUSTRY--AIRPLANES; subdivision AIRPLANES under names of people AERO COMMANDER--1956 AIR KING ALEXANDER--EAGLE ROCK AMERICAN EAGLE ARGOSY ARROW Aviators See AIR PILOTS AVRO BABCOCK BAUMAN BEECHCRAFT BEELINE BELLANCA BIRD BLERIOT BOEING BREESE--DALLAS BREGUET BRISTOL Box 4 BUHL Page 7 of 115 Ford Motor Company photographs collection Archives (Ford Motor Company) photographs subgroup Photographic vertical file series Accession 1660 BUHL VERVILLE BUTLER CAMPBELL CARAVELLE CESSNA CHANCE VOUGHT CONSOLIDATED CONVAIR CUNNINGHAM-HALL CURTISS (2 folders) DEHAVILLAND DORNIER DOUGLAS DRIGGS (2 folders) FAIRCHILD FARMAN FIAT FLEET FOKKER GENERAL (3 folders) JOSEPHINE FORD Box 5 FORD B-47 STRATOJET (WING) ENGINE--EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIMENTAL AMPHIBIAN FIVE SEAT EXECUTIVE FLIVVER 1 FLIVVER