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Twenty Millionth Ford: Cleveland Branch Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Twenty Millionth Ford motorcade through business district - Twenty Millionth in front of building, group of men greeting driver, getting in car, driving away. 4/25/31, Elyria, Ohio. Mayor Jas. J. Hewitt; J.R. Dahl, Dealer; A.C. Hudnutt, Editor, Chronicle-Telegram. Twenty Millionth in front of Cleveland City Hall, group on steps, greetings, some of group getting into car, driving away. 4/25/31, Cleveland. Mayor John D. Marshall. Two women posing in Twenty Millionth. 4/25/31, Cleveland. Stella Walsh, champion woman runner of world. Three costumed girls on roller skates skating around Twenty Millionth, getting into car, getting out .4/25/31, Cleveland. Chester Hale, girls from Rolling Along. Twenty Millionth Ford and group in front of building, greetings, several men getting in car, driving away. 4/25/31, Akron, Ohio. Dealer W.F. Jones, Harvey Firestone, Mayor Lloyd G. Weil, T.A. Aspell, Goodrich, Robert Wilson, Goodyear. Motorcade through town - marching band leading motorcade down tree-lined street - Twenty Millionth, close-up of man in Twenty Millionth - more band marching. 4/27/31, New Philadelphia, Ohio. Mayor F.W. Hurst seated in 20,000,000. Group with Twenty Millionth in front of building, men signing log - panorama of Twenty Millionth in front of building, spectators - motorcade through industrial, residential area. 5/5/31, Syracuse, New York. Rabbit wire fence with old horse carriage behind it - sign, ‘Governor’s carriage owned by Colonel Gansevoort of Albany. This carriage was used by him when Colonel George Washington visited him. Lafayette and Governor Clinton also rode in this carriage’ - large two-story white house, Twenty Millionth stopping in front door, two men leaving house, greetings. [1931]
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