Cornerstone of the Henry Ford Museum / Henry Ford's Seventy-Fifth Birthday / Model A Fords Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Views of concrete slab with Luther Burbank’s spade, Thomas Edison’s footprints and signature - three men standing - platform, cameras and people on it, trucks beside it, people milling around - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison outside Edison’s laboratory, Greenfield Village - Edison speaking into microphone, entering building - Edison climbing steps of platform with Burbank’s spade in hand, placing spade in wet concrete, walking across it, signing name with stick, spectators - Ford and Edison posing, spectators - group entering Edison’s laboratory - Edison getting out of car, being greeted at door to laboratory, entering, followed by woman and Ford and others - group milling around slab of concrete - close-up of Edison’s signature in concrete - Edison and Ford in laboratory, tinkering with steam engine - Edison placing spade, walking over, and signing concrete slab. [1928] b. Henry and Mrs. Ford in first workshop, posing outside - posing with Henry Ford II - close-up of sign on shop, ‘58 Bagley Ave. In this little brick shop…Mr. Henry Ford completed his first car in 1896…’ - Henry Ford sitting in Quadricycle - Henry and Mrs. Ford posing in Quadricycle - Henry Ford II posing with them. [1938] c. Sign, ‘Dangerous Hill. Go into Second Gear’ - several different Model A Fords being driven on country roads, up steep hillside, across rough field. [1928]
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